Are America's golden opportunities worth the risk immigrants face? Some Immigrants had the luck to achieve the golden door and others didn´t. They've had dreams on how they could achieve a better life of living, in the ¨Let America Be great Again¨, by Langston Hughes he says, ¨The millions who have nothing for our pay, except the dream thatś almost dead today¨. Many immigrants that gave everything away just for a better life got nothing in return. The golden door is open to those who are willing to work hard and embrace their opportunity. There are many kinds of immigrants, those who are smart, kind,and ambitious Langston Hughes explains in, ¨Let America be America again¨, ¨opportunity is real and life is free, equality is in the air we
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Immigrants had to face inequality of their skin color, religion, race, and culture. On top of that, they had hatred from people that would call them traders and other hateful meanings. Just how Dwight Okita reveals how Japanese people had to move to a relocation center because citizens thought they were spies. Everything starts to fall down with Okita when her best friend Denita says, ¨you're trying to start a war, giving secrets away to the enemy. Why can't you keep your big mouth shut?¨. Knowing that her best friend didn't even trust her must of felt awful. She now knew what it felt being an immigrant and having even your closest friend not trust you because you were different. In the novel ¨bean trees¨ there are two main characters which are Esperanza and her husband Estevan. They lost their daughter ¨Ismene¨ and were hoping to find a better place to live in. They are known as the 2 main immigrants that are kind and smart. As they moved to Kentucky they had to change their language they were speaking and the way they dressed. As Estevan was talking to Taylor he said, ¨He let out a long breath. "I don't even know anymore which home I miss. Which level of the home. In Guatemala City, I missed the mountains. My own language is not Spanish, did you know that?". He had this sensitivity on how Kentucky wasn't any better than Guatemala. Being an immigrant means a lot of change is going to occur in your life. Esperanza, Estevan, and Okita almost experience the same thing and all the changes that were
Immigrants had to face inequality of their skin color, religion, race, and culture. On top of that, they had hatred from people that would call them traders and other hateful meanings. Just how Dwight Okita reveals how Japanese people had to move to a relocation center because citizens thought they were spies. Everything starts to fall down with Okita when her best friend Denita says, ¨you're trying to start a war, giving secrets away to the enemy. Why can't you keep your big mouth shut?¨. Knowing that her best friend didn't even trust her must of felt awful. She now knew what it felt being an immigrant and having even your closest friend not trust you because you were different. In the novel ¨bean trees¨ there are two main characters which are Esperanza and her husband Estevan. They lost their daughter ¨Ismene¨ and were hoping to find a better place to live in. They are known as the 2 main immigrants that are kind and smart. As they moved to Kentucky they had to change their language they were speaking and the way they dressed. As Estevan was talking to Taylor he said, ¨He let out a long breath. "I don't even know anymore which home I miss. Which level of the home. In Guatemala City, I missed the mountains. My own language is not Spanish, did you know that?". He had this sensitivity on how Kentucky wasn't any better than Guatemala. Being an immigrant means a lot of change is going to occur in your life. Esperanza, Estevan, and Okita almost experience the same thing and all the changes that were