Anzia yezierska

Robbers!’ I longed to cry out to them. ‘Why do you have flowers on the table and cheat a starving girl from her bite of food’” (Yezierska 169). Sara was starving and needed food so she asked the lunch lady for some more, the lut mre in the gave it to a man. Sara was furious and demanded to have food, a voice in the line shouted, “Don’t you know they always give men more” (Yezierska 169). Since men were more

citizen who provides access to the dream for themselves. Even though they encountered many trials and tribulations, with persistence, people such as Langston Hughes in “I Too Sing America and Anzia Yezierska in “America and I” they were able to achieve their individual American Dream. In the poem “I Too

the way." (The right to fail, William Zinsser). This quote means that people are beginning to understand that it is okay to fail as long as you try to succeed. there are many different interpretations of the American dream, like the one that Anzia Yezierska believes in America and I. The American Dream is accessible to all because Anything can be achieved if you try hard enough and you want it bad enough to work for it, but some people don’t know that.

When Anzia first arrived in America from Russia, her “…first job was as a servant in an Americanized family…I left. Not a dollar for all my work…my second job…was in a sweatshop of a Delancey Street basement…The money I earned as hardly enough to pay for bread and rent…I could no longer pay for my mattress on the floor…(or) the bite in my mouth” (Yezierska). Hard Work Shahid Khan an immigrant from Pakistan, “…washed dishes for

the beginning of the story, America and I by Anzia Yezierska, the author believes in the American Dream and places it on a pedestal. Later on in the text the author realizes that it is very hard for her, being an immigrant, to reach this goal. She has to start from the bottom and is not always treated the best. “So, made to feel that I was in the hands of American friends, invited to share with them their home, their plenty, their happiness…” (Anzia

richer, and more capable of growth.” Out history and our stories have paved the way for those coming to America and we need to keep this momentum going. Anzia Yezierska expresses this same message in America and I. “I’d be a creator, a giver, a human being! My work would be the living job of the fullest self-expression.” Not only would Yezierska make something of herself, but she’d be giving her time and devotion to others. She is the perfect definition of a true

attempt to rediscover their ethnic identity. Anzia Yezierska’s personal immigrant narrative began in Russian Poland. She was born around 1885, and immigrated to America with her family when she was 15 years old. Yezierska’s family were Jews who escaped from the anti-Semitic government that was in control of Russia at that time. They settled in New York’s Lower East Side, along with millions of East European Jews who fled to the United States ("Anzia" 28:332). Yezierska’s personal experiences

means to have a willing to accept others from different culture, freedom to do anything, and to have opportunities in terms of relaxed atmosphere. First of all, being American mean to have a willingness to accept others from different culture. Anzia Yezierska, the author of the selection, “American and I” article wrote about the many immigrants comes to America. “My great chance to learn to be a civilized being to become an American by living with them” (Yezieska 20). Her countless opportunity made

Beneatha continued her dream of becoming a doctor, representing the family's belief in education as a way of growth. Their combined efforts reflected the Younger family's strong dedication to happiness and a better life. In "America and I," Anzia Yezierska vividly portrays her experience of seizing opportunities in America. She writes, "Then came a light—a great

Everyone has their own interpretation of the “American Dream”but no one can truly defend it unless they have experienced, Base on the three short stories “America and I” by Anzia Yezierska, “Among the poor girls” by Wirt Sike, and “Eyewitness at the triangle” by William Shepard. But what is an “American Dream” it could mean anything, the general definition is an imagery or a dream for U.S citizen should have an equal right or opportunities to achieve great success and prosperity. It just doesn't