Krutyn Poland: A Short Story

Marisela reinforces some of Ravenstein’s laws which consist of, moving within proximity, big cities, more females migrate than men and the major causes of migration is economic. Marisela’s family relationships did grow apart and she still misses them very much. But she has no regrets of deciding to migrate to America

Lucia’s father sensing this war coming up, was a tremendous advantage for her family, especially the fact that he followed what his feelings were telling him and took his family out of their homeland Sucha, Poland to safety in another country. Her father Abraham, offered the whole family including aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents to come with him in the journey away from the Nazis’. Some cousins, aunts, and uncles came along with Lucia’s family but some stayed because they simply couldn 't see the danger coming ahead “..we made a stop in Bochnia, a city in the main road east, where my oldest uncle, my father 's brother Mehul, and his entire family lived. My father spent half the day begging them to depart with us. But my uncle and aunt could not see it. ‘We have children and grandchildren,’ they said. ‘We cannot leave.’” Page 24. They 're resilience to bounce back up after they desperately begged their extended family to come with them to safety, is declined, with the knowledge of Hitler potentially doing something that will affect them, worried Lucia’s family about their extended family but they had no choice but to keep on moving before the Nazis’ catch up to them. They traveled for days and weeks in a wagon with a horse and coachman, but the wagon couldn 't fit all fourteen people and their luggage, so they took turns sitting next to the coachman and walking along the side of the wagon.

Poland is a very interesting country. Many people have never seen or visited or seen Poland before. Poland is interesting because of its country and its cultural practices. Many people also have polish roots that live in other places around the world.

This book can be very painful to read because many times the kids are much more responsible than the adults. Even so, the kids have to fend for themselves from a very young age. Upon Rex losing his job once again, Lori and Jeannette try to discuss ways to help make money for the family. Finding themselves unable to think of any helpful ways, Jeanette says, “I guess we can eat less,” to which Lori replies “We have before” (67). The face they have gone hungry many times before is extremely disappointing, especially since Rex and Rose are both completely capable of getting jobs. When Rex are Rose are arguing about not having money, Jeannette says “Tell them we like eating margarine, then maybe they’ll stop fighting” (70). It’s fine to live like that on your own, but you shouldn’t raise a kid in that kind of scenario.

Lithuanian home one summers night in 1941, leaving nothing but broken shards of her life behind. Lina,

Having parents that tried so hard to set themselves apart from society, all while struggling to earn money, had an impact on their children's lives, and it wasn't for the better. These children lived to struggle. With a bad home life, and parents that didn't seem to care for them enough, Jeannette, Brian, Maureen, and Lori Walls all eventually moved away from their careless parents, to New York. Although it took time for Lori and Jeannette Walls to save up what little money they had, due to the fact that the father continually stole it, they were able to move to New York successfully. Later in the memoir, their parents also decide to move there, except they don't try to better their lives like their

In the novel, Kracha's family is a full one. He has three daughters and a world of problems at home. Despite this he refuses to waste away at the mill after a couple of years. So he sees opportunity, and becomes a butcher. Unfortunately he fails at his attempts to climb the ranks economically. Kracha, like most workers of the time, drowns him self in alcohol to hide from the problems of bills, finances and taxes. Kracha's wife, Elena, had to take in boarders to lighten the economic load. This is a typical practice of women in the mill towns. Not only did they take in boarders, but also they took care of the house and had to raise the children wile sometimes taking odd jobs to make ends meat. The second part of the novel is about Mike Dobrejcak who married, Kracha's eldest daughter, Mary. Mike is also a mill worker, migrated to America when he was still in his teens. This second generation of Slovaks is becoming more aware of politics, and how important their votes are in elections. With a greater understanding of the issues around them the second generation of immigrants started to vote. Still working in the mills they hold fast to the American dream. Faced with the same problems that the first generation had, now he was faced with wage cuts along with the never-ending struggles with the union. The next part of the book is about Mary. When her husband (Mike) dies she is compensated from the company and the local or lodge he is a part of. Since fatal accidents were common

The second part of the novel is about Mike Dobrejcak who married, Kracha's eldest daughter, Mary. Mike is also a mill worker, migrated to America when he was still in his teens. This second generation of Slovaks is becoming more aware of politics, and how important their votes are in elections. With a greater understanding of the issues around them the second generation of immigrants started to vote. Still working in the mills they hold fast to the American dream. Faced with the same problems that the first generation had, now he

The most memorable genocide constructed abruptly by German Nazis left both Jewish and German-Jewish residents of Poland in a whirl of destruction. 1933 had been the year that changed the lives of billions, but one young lady by the name of Stefania (Fusia) Podgorska managed to save thirteen, including herself along with her young sister. Upon moving to Przemysl and working a steady job as a grocer, ghettos in Poland had begun to be invaded, and her mother and eldest brother were not too lucky. Podgorska’s family had been sent to Germany for forced labor, like the rest of the Jewish community in that vicinity. While still without question, going through a rough patch at the grocery store, oddly enough, she had also been relieved simply because

I'm in a small small town named Grosselec Poland in the year 1920. I am in the town square, people are bustling about. There are many shops selling food, clothes and a few selling jewelry. I look over to see a woman walking with her three daughter to the grocery store. I follow them inside to hear the owner say, “Hello Jetti how are Rachella, Sylvia and Esther? Any word from Jacob?” This is my great great grandma, my Mom's, Dad's, Mom's, Mom, Jetti Teidor. She responds, “They are doing fine, now word though, I am starting to think that it is time for us to move to America.” After they leave I follow them home. Jetti opens the door, walks to the small kitchen and starts to make dinner.

Crossing the threshold , they went throw the river to another land . The twins were born even though their mother was a priestess . The initiation of the hero-child they grew up with the shepherd after he found them from the she-wolf . The ordinary world , they lived the normal world . Meeting with the mentor the shepherd found them and teach them everything he knew .

Even when the children are faced with danger, they think nothing of it and quickly move on. The children’s journey through childhood is one of beauty and simplicity, as the children had no pressing worries in life and they finely made do with the little that they had.

They had seven girls in total. She was pregnant with their eighth. Jourdian had to work extremely hard to have enough money to raise his family. The hardest was him not finishing high school. Jobs were hard to come by for because of that reason. He, at one point, held three jobs at one time. He was a Carpenter, Dairy Farmer, and a manager at a tiny grocery store in Boise. So he knew a thing or two about how get jobs.

Yezierska’s short story, “America and I,” describes life for a young, female immigrant from Poland, the struggles faced in her homeland, hope for freedom in America and heartbreaking craving for an American identity. Known as “Queen of the Ghetto,” and “The Immigrant Cinderella,” Yezierska came to see America as an idea, “a deathless hope – a world still in the making” (Yezierska 6). Yezierska, fearing that America had lost the “richness of its soul,” chose to write about her life, and the trials that Jews endured in the ghetto of New York, poverty they left Poland to escape. Attempting to “build a bridge of understanding between American-born and [herself]” she continues, that her hopes during 1923, for the “Americans of tomorrow […] will be too wise, too open-hearted, too friendly-handed, to let the least lastcomer at their gates knock in vain with gifts unwanted” (Yezierska 7). Yezierska, Paine, Hamilton and many, numerous others share her ideal that hope transfers tolerance and acceptance for every soul that lands on these

This is a very complex and hard problem to deal with and can be seen in the writing throughout this poem. The next part of the poem hints at the speaker having a German background which could suggest that her father is a German immigrant. This could have also contributed to the frustrations that the speaker and her father faced throughout their years living in a “black shoe” for a home. The speaker then goes on to discuss how a polish town was completely destroyed in a war. The speaker repeated the word “war” three times which hints that this town has been through more than war, maybe even three. Now we get more about Germany than just an exclamation in the language. The speaker is talking about the German tongue, or language, but in a Polish town that has been destroyed by war. The speaker describes that there are a lot of town in Poland that share the same name so that she will never know for