“Ellis Island” is poem written by Joseph Bruchac III, an American writer with both European immigrants and Native American ancestors. The literary work intels the rejoicing of the European immigrants coming to the New World with new opportunities as they escaped poverty in their home lands, in addition to the great sorrow the Native Americans experience as their land begins to be taken away in order to give freedom to the immigrants coming to America. The overall tone for the passage is a more indecisive as the narrator struggles, having derived from both European and Native American heritage, with reasoning with either side of the spectrum. The symbolism of land representing one’s freedom plays an enormous part in the storyline. The Europeans
