Comparing Immigrants And The Writing On The Wall

Being american is a special thing. It means a lot to be american. Americans have come from many different countries and religions. Americans are special and they are strong. The stories that i have read show a lot of american identity in the immigrants that come here. All the stories are about immigrants and their experiences in america and how they feel or what they did here. One story that really interested me was The Writing on the Wall. The sequence of events they had to go through where interesting. The Sentence They were sent to a detention center on Angles Island. Held there for 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, and as long as 2 years ( Dungy 80). This really show the immigrants were willing to wait for as long as it took to get into america. They did not care if they died trying. Another sentence in this story is The hundreds of poems that documented the lives of nearly 175,000 people ( Dungy 82). The immigrants would write poems on the walls to their families and about three days. This showed that they loved their families and homeland. I can only imagine the description of their writings. …show more content…
This story was written by kennedy about his view on immigrants. He states that “ Americans have been immigrants or the descendants of immigrants” ( Kennedy 23). This statement shows that we all come from different countries and immigrants and us are the same. Also kennedy explains that the immigrants helped build this country. “ This could not of been done without the 23.5 million people who came to america.” ( Kennedy 25) This shows that a lot of immigrants came to america to get jobs and help out there families and helped