American Dream Immigrants Essay

Imagine getting on a boat and sailing to a country that you know nothing about, but the fact that it would offer a better life. That’s what many immigrants went through to come to a country they thought could give them freedom, and hope. The American dream to these immigrants was hope of a better life, in the “New World.” All of them coming from different places from all around the world to live the American dream, and doing whatever it took to get to America.
“A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame, is the imprisoned lightning” when the immigrants came to America, they were taken to Ellis Island, and on their way there they passed by the statue, “The Mother Exiles.” When they saw her they saw their new beginning, and when they saw the torch it represented the new life of everyone and the hope they had to make it come true. …show more content…
They came in steerage, which they spent days, and weeks in,showing how much they wanted to come to the new world. “They came to us speaking many tongues-but a single language, the universal language of human aspiration.” The immigrants all came speaking different languages , but they all came with the same thing in mind which was a new life. “ If we keep the faith for our day as those who came before us kept the faith for theirs, then you and I smile with confidence into the future” relating back to the previous quote because although there are different languages and cultures in America everyone has the same thing in mind, to keep the faith for us and the future.
Immigrants came from far and wide to live in the new world and live the American dream. They came to America with hope and when they saw the statue of liberty, they saw all that America had to offer. “There is no passion to be found playing small- in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of