Right off the bat, Doctorow elicits sentiment from the readers through the distressing description on the arrival of the new immigrants. “These officials changed names they couldn’t pronounce and tore people from their families” (Doctorow 8). Though there was an initial feeling of sentiment because families were torn apart, it immediately changed to revulsion because of the immoral acts the immigrants committed. “They had no honor and worked for next to nothing. They stole. They drank. They raped their own daughters. They killed each other casually” (9). At first, the readers can assume that immigrants left for America in order for a new beginning, but instead of a new start the immigrants continued to commit the same ill deed in America as
