The And The Little Difference Within The 20th Century

Initial picture of a man detached from the world that surrounds him-shows immigrant isolation but also Feliks strength of character.

Immigrants constantly face racial prejudices unknown to the privileged. These immigrants are only trying to have a life for themselves and/or for their children. My Antonia by Willa Cather entails the trials and tribulations of those who seek success told through the perspective of Jim Burden. The novel consists of people out of the country wanting a better life for themselves; That's what they want most of all. The immigrants that Jim comes to know go through hardships that they overcome to finally become successful in the end.

This story is told through a first person perspective as each refugee has their own secrets to keep while seeking a new life. This was a highly effective choice as it enabled the reader to “be in their shoes” and witness the brutal journey these refugees have faced. In order to show us the severity of the journey, imagery is needed since it helps the audience picture the situation as most of us cannot imagine what life at this time was. When Joana arrived at the port, as “animals roamed helplessly in the streets and people screamed out for food and lost family members” (152). This description shows how this war has torn apart everyone physically and emotionally as complete chaos unfolds. It is also an appeal to pathos as her audience would feel devastated by having to witness such a scene. This is because nobody should have no food to eat or not know whether they were safe. As a result, the description of the port upon Joana’s arrival proves that even after their journey was completed, the fight for survival was not over. Instead, it was just beginning as everyone fought for a boarding pass that one hoped would allow them to

When discussing the difference between American and immigrant girls, Jim notes that immigrant girls work more and he comments, “One result of this family solidarity was that the foreign farmers in our county were the first to become prosperous. After the fathers were out of debt, the daughters married the sons of neighbors – usually of like nationality – and the girls who once worked in Black Hawk kitchens are to-day managing big farms and fine families of their own; their children are better off that the children of the town women they used to serve,” (Cather 74). While successful Americans prided themselves in their leisurely lifestyles, this comment implies that immigrants usually work much harder than Americans and are more successful in the long-run because of it. Not only does this show that immigrants are capable of success, it also reveals that immigrants are hard workers and that having their children work is not a sign of being less than, but rather a strategy for success. My Antonia introduces several immigrant characters other than Antonia, and Jim’s narrative plots the road to success that each of them seem to find. Antonia does not achieve commercial success, but when Jim visits her at the end of the book, her life reveals that she has achieved her own kind of success. Antonia proudly shows her many

Here are some ways that the texts are similar towards the subject of immigration. Both of the texts talk about how

A person’s life is not their doing, but rather the multiple doings and influences of other’s lives. Jim Burden would never understand the life and will of immigrants had he not met Antonia, Russian Peter, or Lena. In the beginning he was ignorant and inexperienced. “‘People who don’t like this country ought to stay at home,” I said severely. “We don’t make them come here’”(59). In the end he loves Antonia, treats them all with respect, and awe. This understanding that Jim gained was of their making. Innocence to experience is a motif based off this theme. Friendship and childhood love caused Jim to grow as a man. When he killed the snake Antonia bragged about him and treated him with respect. That was a monumental moment in Jim’s childhood.

It’s hard to say that comparing two individual’s lives is an easy task. When looking at my life and Esmerelda Santiago’s life, the sociological imagination could be used to assist in doing that. The following concepts will be used to better understand the surprising similarities and differences: immigration, doing gender, conformist, double consciousness, deviance and traditional authority. I will start by analyzing Esmerelda Santiago’s life. Following that, I will analyze my life and will finish with a conclusion that draws out the comparisons and differences of both.

In this paper there will be a comparison and contrast of two stories that coincide with the chosen multicultural theme. The multicultural theme that was chosen for this analysis is as follows, respect for tradition, family and place of origin. The stories that have great similarities with the thesis are "In the Shadow of War" by Ben Okri and The Village by Estela Portillo Trambley. Both of these stories share a few common purposes which are respect for family, tradition and place of origin. Multicultural literature can be great for the mind and heart breaking at the same time. These stories both reflect on two different men and their morals in a situation of mandatory action and optional action. Both stories tell how two people’s judgments or respect for tradition family and place of origin can make a huge change in themselves and others.

In a way to elicit sympathy from the audience, the poet employs imagery and descriptive phrases to pass the message. This is exemplified in the lines, “… --I understood / by the age of twelve what it meant to be unwanted, exiled, (2000, pp. 679-680) …”. Here, the poet uses the image of a twelve-year-old child who is alone and miserable to highlight the plight immigrants. The imagery is meant for the readers to show some sympathy towards immigrants.

Two characters have some similarities. First, they are both female immigrates who are mothers in their families. They choose sacrifice their own interests to benefit their child’s life. “I watched my brother curled in my mother’s arms and I began to understand how much she loved us and how much she had sacrificed when she arrived in Canada” (Bates 314) “For my mother the act of living here was in itself an act of love, my mother had given up her own life out of love for me and would do the same for Daniel” (Bates 314-315). They were working hard and they obey they husbands. Second, they had huge pressures and stresses in their lives. They had to endure in Canada. “In the kitchen I watched her peel potatoes, dry dishes, and scrape leftover food

The beauty of modernist literature lies within its attempt to seek greater meanings within a novel’s many contextual facades, including nothing short of skeptical and often times insightful interpretations of culture, along with philosophical positions and literary criticisms. In this way, each description, metaphor, and seemingly simplistic sign attributes a deeper meaning; nothing is as simple as it seems and should not be taken as a coincidence or just as a means of setting description, but rather as a metaphor for a character 's true feelings, indirect reference to social changings of the time period, or even a reflection of the author 's inner philosophies and personal conflictions.

The following analysis of these works of literature will focus on to what extents these works are representative of the time in which they were write. This refers to the social as well as the artistic or aesthetic context in which they were written. The paper will attempt to show how these works reflect the age and concerns in which they were written.

Some of the terms used in this project are migrant literature, border thinking/awareness, and transnational motherhood. Migrant literature is an essential term in this project as it looks at a specific narrative of migrants in the host countries. Søren Frank in his exploration on migration and literature asserts that the term “migrant” in popular culture “is associated with migrant workers,” which defines “workers engaged in remunerated activities in a country where they are not nationals” (10). Concerning immigrant narrative, Frank argues that people’s understanding of the immigrant experience is formed prominently by the fictions about immigrants (15). His concepts on immigrant narrative, which includes the Western immigrant narrative, is beneficial to discuss IDWs narrative as immigrant narrative. Frank briefly explicates several key components of immigrant novels namely a hero, a journey, and a series of trials. Given the fact that the corpus in my project does not include novels, it will be challenging to apply those key components into discussion. However, such effort will benefit me in attempting to delineate the Indonesian immigrant narrative, in this case IDWs’ narratives.

Throughout the books of My Ántonia, society and class played an increasingly prevalent part in Jim’s life as he grew old. The timeline of the book portrays the social tensions between the immigrants and the white families as Jim’s perspective on the world steadily expands. On the farm, there is a common theme of simplicity and natural setting, in town Jim is able to comprehend the underlying contempt the merchant families have for the foreigners, and further on as an adult the harsh reality of society’s impact on reputation.

Willa Cather’s My Ántonia tells the story of Jim Burden, a young, orphaned boy from Virginia, and his closest friend, Ántonia, an immigrant girl from Bohemia, living and growing up in Nebraska in the late 1800s. Throughout the entire novel, Jim befriends a slew of immigrants from different countries in Europe out on the prairie and in Black Hawk. Through these friendships, Cather does an excellent job of showing the drastic differences between immigrant life and the life of natural-born Americans. Despite the fact that foreigners were treated as second class citizens by others, some lucky few still prevailed and became even more successful than those who treated them poorly.