“Because the truth is, Today’s Immigrants, As they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.” - Luis Gutierrez. Ann Yezierska was an immigrant who came to America but faced conflicting challenges. Many obstacles she faced were being constantly thrown her way. She realized her vision of her ‘American Dream’ wouldn’t come so easy or happen over night. In Yezierska’s short story “America and I” the narrator conveys her evolving attitude towards her experiences as an immigrant through her diction, details, and figurative language.
In the beginning of Yezierska’s story she began with a hopeful and excited tone. Her hopes were to redeem freedom in America, which in line two she says, “America was a land of living hope, woven of dreams, a flame with longing hope.” In the next section her tone became more appreciative. When Yezierska received her first job from the american family, she mentions how grateful she was just to even mingle with them, in line seventeen. While waiting for her …show more content…
She says, “ I felt that the America that I sought was nothing but a shadow- an echo- a chimera of lunatics and crazy immigrants.”. After all the work she had been doing she was still yet to achieve what she had came to America for. In the last section her tone changes a little into thankful, hopeful and understanding. Line 105 she starts off by saying “ Then I came to light- a great revelation! I saw America- a big idea- a deathless hope- a world still in the making. I saw that it was the glory of America that it was not finished,”. She began to understand why she found little hope in America after all she went through she says “ Fired up by this revealing light, I began to build a bridge of understanding between the American- born and myself.”. She was understanding how she only got to know about the ghetto side of
In the beginning of Yezierska’s story she began with a hopeful and excited tone. Her hopes were to redeem freedom in America, which in line two she says, “America was a land of living hope, woven of dreams, a flame with longing hope.” In the next section her tone became more appreciative. When Yezierska received her first job from the american family, she mentions how grateful she was just to even mingle with them, in line seventeen. While waiting for her …show more content…
She says, “ I felt that the America that I sought was nothing but a shadow- an echo- a chimera of lunatics and crazy immigrants.”. After all the work she had been doing she was still yet to achieve what she had came to America for. In the last section her tone changes a little into thankful, hopeful and understanding. Line 105 she starts off by saying “ Then I came to light- a great revelation! I saw America- a big idea- a deathless hope- a world still in the making. I saw that it was the glory of America that it was not finished,”. She began to understand why she found little hope in America after all she went through she says “ Fired up by this revealing light, I began to build a bridge of understanding between the American- born and myself.”. She was understanding how she only got to know about the ghetto side of