The Earth Knows My Name Chapter Summaries

His father was in Molfetta, Italy during World War II (1941-1945) when Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. By then my grandfather was 6 years old. His oldest brother Orazio (named after his grandfather) was in the Balilla Fascist Youth Movement in school. It was a comprehensive youth group movement for all ages from 8 years old on. It was created by Benito Mussolini himself. His other brother Corado was noted for his talents as an artist and an opera singer. My grandfather 's family came to the United States to get medical care for Corado who had suffered from kidney failure at a young age.

The Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn is a book that includes the history of Mandan people. Most of the people know this place because of Lewis and Clark, but in this book readers can also learn so many important things about Mandan and combination of important new discoveries. In this book, a reader can examine how an author can go far and beyond the expectation, the way she went into the Mandan’s history. The way author have written this book, makes easier for readers to read because she divides each chapter in many topics.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth is comprised of eight short stories about different Indian families’ struggles in America, many of them going through the immigrant experience. The conflicts are with friends and family, and also with themselves, as each of them attempt to find their own identity along with fitting in with the rest of society. One of the causes of these struggles that because the families in the stories are mixed in terms of generation. Many of the adults in the stories were first generation immigrants from India, while many of the children were raised in the United States, which is the second generation. This led to blending of culture and at the same time, clashes between the immigrant mentality of living and the American mentality of living. In Unaccustomed Earth, Lahiri demonstrates to the reader the important influence of environment, specifically culture and how it impacts parental teachings, on the personality and development of an individuals’ identity, and how the actions and development of characters can affect one’s family and friends; the impact of environment and culture is shown especially by the characters and stories “Hell-Heaven” and “Hema and Kaushik”.

Having arrived in New York City, Italian immigrants Nicholas and Florence Passantino were prepared to start a new life in America. Shortly after arriving they decided on settling down in New Jersey to raise a

Gabriele and Teresina Capone, along with their three sons, were two of the 43,000 Italians who arrived in the U.S. in 1894. After five years in the United States, a forth son joined the family as Teresina gave birth to the family's Alphonse Capone. Since their arrival, nothing "about the Capone family was inherently disturbed, violent, or dishonest... They were a law-abiding, unremarkable Italian-American family with conventional patterns of behavior and frustrations; they displayed no special genius for crime, or anything else, for that matter," (Bardsley 2000).

In this chapter we start seeing a flow threw the book Etta Mae is getting back from another one of her trips and is coming to her home which she shares with her good friend Mattie Michaels. As she arrives in a new car , with a new outfit and carrying records. This chapter the author , Gloria Naylor adds in song lyrics to give us the reader some additional information on the evens happing . “I love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’tI love my man I’m a liar if I say I don’t But I’ll quit my man I’m a liar if I say I won’t I’ve been your slave, baby Ever since I’ve been your babe I’ve been your slave Ever since I’ve been your babe But before I’ll be your dogI’ll see you in your grave My man wouldn’t give me no breakfast Wouldn’t give me no dinner Squawked about me supper then he put me outdoors Had the nerve to lay a matchbox on my clothes I didn’t have so many But I had a long, long way to go”

Then we view the sculptures of the Boar and Hunting Dogs which were originally in the garden of a home in a city in the Bay of Naples. We also view the large fresco of the Garden Scene (see Fig. 2), which feels like a time warp back in time to Pompeii. The Garden Scene displays the beauty of nature with the various plants and birds present, and the two heads hanging on posts seem to be looking out to the viewer and protecting the garden. After the garden pieces we then are welcomed to the indoors of the Bay of Naples’ homes.

Discovered in 1524 by French colonists, New York quickly became the land of success for millions of migrants from Europe, Asia, and even those in the United States. In 1965, the first migration of the Ranieri family began from Sicily, Italy to Flushing, New York. Domenic Ranieri, a first generation Italian, was born into a full Italian family in 1985. He resided in Whitestone, NY until 2004 when he moved to Monmouth County, New Jersey at the age of 19. While in New York, Domenic was a student at Saint Francis Prep High School. As for his family, they were living the American Dream, pushing a strong work ethic and the importance of education. His father, Vito-Antonio Ranieri, began his career as a flight attendant for United Airlines while his mother, Giovanna Ranieri, owned a hair salon. Overall, Domenic enjoyed growing up in New York City. He took great advantage of the opportunities which allowed him to gain independence at such a young age.

My parents were born in Sicily; my great grandparents came to the United States in the early 1900’s. My grandmother was born in the United States 1904, although she was born in America her parents did not choose to remain in the United States. Longing for their home land my great grandparents moved the family back to Sicily when my grandmother was only several months old. In the early 1950’s my grandmother who was born in the United States left Sicily with her husband and three grown children.

• Medes settled in the northwest and came under the influence of the ancient centers in

The Ellis Island known today was founded by the New York State government in 1855 and it was the first immigrant processing station established in the United States. This maverick immigrant processing station was originally based on an island off the southwest tip of Manhattan, Castle Garden. The NY State Government placed this Immigrant processing station off shore for two main reasons. The first of those reasons being, for the protection of the immigrants who were often robbed or tricked out of their already meager funds by city swindlers. Also, to further prevent the spread of any infectious diseases that potential immigrants may have been carrying. Prior to the establishment of the Castle Garden processing station, Immigrants were allowed to simply walk freely into Manhattan harbor after departing from their ships. In April of 1890, due to legal issues, the castle garden project was ended and the US government purchased a swampy and small island to the to the southeast of Manhattan, where they would construct a new immigrant processing center and

The narrator also describes the flower gardens

Lamattina‘s grandparents first settled in downtown Manhattan, in an area that came to be known as Little Italy. Her grandfather first came here alone in 1907, leaving his wife and young son home in Italy. After finding a place to live and saving up some money, he then sent for his family. Living conditions in Little Italy were terrible. Large families were forced to live in tiny tenement apartments with sometimes up to five or six family members sharing a tiny bedroom. When the immigrants were able to save up enough money many moved their families to more rural areas such as Staten Island where land was relatively inexpensive.

The italians came to america from 1880 to around 1924. There was more than 4 million immigrants that migrated to the U.S. Many of them worked on farms when they lived in italy, but when they got here they mostly worked industrial, because the worked for less than other cultures. Most of the italians who came to america were fortunate enough to have money to get them there. Others would board on a ship in the stowaway hatch. There were so many people down there that they

i Suoi Fratelli, the journey of one Southern Italian family as they migrate to the North