Why Marco and Rodolfo Came to America in A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller

Furthermore, in most cases, it may seem the United States has a system in which immigrants are not given the chance to form a bright future. In the novel, “Antonio soon found himself settling for jobs that were clearly beneath him. He stood under the baking sun at the on-ramp to the Santa Monica Freeway, selling oranges for two dollars a bag: a dollar fifty for the guy from the produce market, fifty cents for him,” (Tobar, 53). Many of the immigrants that live in the U.S. have little power that allows them to succeed. Some races have benefitted from it more than others. The Cubans, for instance, have had it much easier than most immigrants who have migrated to the United States; whereas, Antonio, a Guatemalan, had trouble finding a stable job that allowed him to sustain himself. In contrast to many other races, many Americans described Cubans as being visitors who represent, “all phases of life and professions, having an excellent level of education… More than half of their families with them, including children brought from Cuba to escape communist indoctrination in the schools,”

In the story, you can see narrator has a love for her Latino heritage but also tries to separate herself from the brazer who does not speak English. This is one of the struggles to this story. The other is Geraldo, who came to American, to make a better life and his struggle to adjust to a new culture and the separation from his homeland. This story was a symbol of what one's life is like as an immigrant to a new country and the stereotypes and

This novel is separated into three ‘parts’. Each section tells of one of Sal’s travels from New York to the West. The sections are ordered chronologically, and arguably by importance to the development of Sal’s ignorance. He stumbles blindly into his first trip chasing unrealistic dreams of the western world. As his travels continue, he learns how to ignore how people live across the continental United States and in Mexico. Each trip is anti-climactic for Sal, as well as the reader, as he is never satisfied with what he finds. He chases cheap thrills and never finds the true contentment that he was searching for. Beginning with a clean palette however, each ‘part’ encourages the reader to think that he will find his true west, but that it just hasn’t happened yet. Structure provides interest to the story as well as draws out the anticlimactic ending to each story

Richard Rodriguez had faced a lot of problems that most students in America do not have to deal with. Richard had to deal with parents that couldn’t help him in school and wanting to be successful academically. He had become embarrassed of his background and where he came from and did not want to embrace his culture.

our lives. Perhaps it was my fault that we came here and that if it

In the section “On the Rainy River” from the novel The Things They Carried, author Tim O’Brien describes his difficulty in choosing between going to war or going to Canada. O’Brien implements many different rhetorical and stylistic strategies to express his dilemma. His use of juxtaposition, rhetorical questions, and somber diction enhance his frustration of his two choices. O’Brien uses juxtaposition to compare his option of running away to Canada with what he would rather do: live his life. O’Brien describes a scene he has imagined of himself running away.

Even though Miller makes assumptions in his writing, he does keep the reader’s attention with a face-paced tone and long sentences with similes. For example, when Miller says “The notion that the principal, or only, purpose of going to college is to win a ticket of admission to the great upper middle

The father’s dreams include a mix “...of desperation and worn threads,” (2). His father’s dreams resulted in, “...I am bedded upon soft green money” (5), while “...my father / who lives on a bed of anguish…” (7-8). Additionally, the narrator states, “You have heard the scream as the knife fell; / while I have slept…” (16-17). In both poems, one can recognize the appreciation for the parents and grandparents who left their home countries in hopes of reaching their ultimate dreams elsewhere. However, one can also recognize the different moods within the poems. For example, the narrator of Ellis Island shows feelings of distaste when discussing another voice that speaks to him regarding native lands taken away in the last stanza. In contrast, the narrator of Europe and America shows overwhelming gratitude for his father’s hardships throughout the poem. In brief, Joseph Bruchac’s Ellis Island and David Ignatow’s Europe and America both possess indistinguishable and varying components in regards to the American

In the story “Four Stations in His Circle”, Austin Clarke reveals the negative influences that immigration can have on people through characterization of the main character, symbols such as the house that Jefferson dreams to buy and the time and place where the story takes place. The author demonstrates how immigration can transform someone to the point that they abandon their old culture, family and friends and remain only with their loneliness and selfishness.

The Complex Relationship between the American and Jig in Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”

Miller writes the story in a very unique way. He gives his readers a chance to explore the words written on his pages, with the hope that the reader is able to draw their own conclusions from his work. His unparalleled approach to the essay forces the reader to use critical thinking in order to make since of the essay. Miller’s feelings about reading, writing and the

'What 's that? ' she asked a waiter and pointed to the long backbone of the great fish that was just now garbage waiting to go out with the tide. 'Tiburon, ' the waiter said, 'Shark. ' He was meaning to explain what dare grapple happened. 'I didn 't know sharks had such handsome tails. ' 'I didn 't either, ' her male companion said." (page 109) these two tourists who speak are hardly differentiated from the group to which they belong. They are all metaphors for individuals who are spectators of the human scene rather than participants in its activity. They see, but they see without fully comprehending. They are only faintly curious, only passingly interested, only superficially observing, they have not been initiated into the mysteries that Santiago understands. These tourists live their lives as tourists, skimming the surface of life, without resolution or clarity. Their life reflects that of all people who live their lives ashore, who dare not grapple with the mysteries of the ocean, or of life. This is the type of life that Hemingway always tried to avoid, to the point of his taking his own life. Hemingway uses metaphors to reflect his opinions of life and the people that he has met in life. The metaphor of the sea symbolizes all of life and the roles that people must choose to have in life. The lions are a metaphor for the

Scholars and critics often use this short story as a jumping off point when exploring the development of Hemingway's approach to writing and his narrative style. The characters, Jim and Liz, are like many of Hemingway's characters in that they are disinclined to philosophize, are prone to action, learn from experience, and avoid abstract

noise was used to give a sense of tension. But later when is honour is

“Big Two Hearted River”, a semi-autobiographical short story by Ernest Hemingway, is a story about the main character, Nick, returning to Big Two Hearted River in order to recover from his inner wounds. Nick Adams goes on a journey alone in nature for a therapeutic purpose as he suffers from PTSD. However, Hemingway purposely avoided any direct discussion regarding to Nick’s mental wounds. The absence of the discussion is contributed by Hemingway’s writing style, the Iceberg principle. Hemingway focuses explicitly on what occurs on the surface without mentioning actual theme. This indicates that the theme of self-healing cannot be uncovered by simply looking at the text itself. In order to comprehend the actual theme of the story, the character development of Nick must be examined. This is possible since Nick Adams is a recurring character of Hemingway’s stories. The two preceding stories of “Big Two Hearted River”, “Now I lay me” and “A Way you’ll Never Be”, directly discusses Nick’s suffering from shell-shock and how he comforts himself by returning to Big Two Hearted river in his mind. The two short stories will be analyzed and connected to “Big Two Hearted River” in the essay first. This will provide a strong understanding of Nick’s psyche and the reason behind his return to nature. Then, “Big Two Hearted River” the short story itself will be carefully analyzed.