Moving to America, is usually more often the dream of most people, especially the youths living in the third countries, with the hope of getting a better life. Mostly, these individuals imagine that America will offer them a “bed of roses” kind of life. However, most immigrants never live to see the fulfillment of their expectations. For most of them, struggle, disappointments and a discriminative society which opts to out rightly ignore them is what they have to face each day. This paper seeks to discuss the immigrants experience in America based on the stories, Edison, New Jersey by Junot Diaz and A Bunch of Broccoli on the Third Shelf by Lara Vapnayar.
There exist differences as to how the immigrants in the stories came to America. First, Nina relocated to America out of an obligation to her husband who wanted to move to America. On the other hand, her husband moved to America out of his own will and drive to have a better life. However, he did not have a close relative in America so he married Nina Out of convenience. This can be proved by Lara’s story, “It was true that her husband had always wanted to emigrate but, without close relatives in the United States, hadn’t been able to obtain a visa. It was true that, having married Nina, he had got his visa. It was true that …show more content…
This can be proved when the narrator says, “the customers ha-ha and we ha-ha and then they agonize over leaving, linger by the front door, trying to memorize everything they own, as if they don’t know where to find us, who we work for” (Junot, 858). Despite being aware of where the narrator and his colleague work, their customers still struggle to remember all the things they own. This is not only preposterous but also absurd owing the fact that these customers own a lot of property hence it’s entirely impossible for them to comprehend all that they
There exist differences as to how the immigrants in the stories came to America. First, Nina relocated to America out of an obligation to her husband who wanted to move to America. On the other hand, her husband moved to America out of his own will and drive to have a better life. However, he did not have a close relative in America so he married Nina Out of convenience. This can be proved by Lara’s story, “It was true that her husband had always wanted to emigrate but, without close relatives in the United States, hadn’t been able to obtain a visa. It was true that, having married Nina, he had got his visa. It was true that …show more content…
This can be proved when the narrator says, “the customers ha-ha and we ha-ha and then they agonize over leaving, linger by the front door, trying to memorize everything they own, as if they don’t know where to find us, who we work for” (Junot, 858). Despite being aware of where the narrator and his colleague work, their customers still struggle to remember all the things they own. This is not only preposterous but also absurd owing the fact that these customers own a lot of property hence it’s entirely impossible for them to comprehend all that they