An american is everyone who is in this country and wants to be here to appreciate our freedoms and to make their life better. Whether a person is brought over to America for some reason or they choose to come here, they are American if they make their home here and gain a love of this country. They can come from all over the world which is what makes this country to diverse, and as some call it, The Melting Pot. From Equiano being brought over as a slave and then gaining his freedom, to the Puritans choosing to come here for religious freedom and great choices of land. All people who have ended up in our country, and have made it a place they want to be, add to what makes an American.
Olaudah Equiano was a boy who lived in Nigeria. When …show more content…
One day, him and his sister were sitting in the stands in the trees, when they were both kidnapped. Taken by grown men who were much more powerful than them, they were not quite sure what to do. They were both so fatigued and hungry, that the only “relief was some sleep” (Equiano 1). Obviously, this is not an occurrence they had wanted to happen. No young child wants to be kidnapped and taken away from everything he knows. The struggles that Equiano had to go through being kidnapped were nothing a young child should have to go through. Equiano claims that “The only comfort we had was being in one another’s arms all that night, and bathing each other with our tears.” (Equiano 1). The kidnappers had to force feed Equiano, for he was just continually grieving. This demonstrates that Equiano in no way wanted to be taken to this place he was being taken, he at first knew very little about where they could be taking him, and the other slaves on the boat. For a moment Equiano even thought that they were going to kill him right on the spot, due to him being tossed around by the crew which was speaking a language he couldn’t even understand. Equiano saw no hope for every …show more content…
However, Columbus wanted to go home, he hadn’t enjoyed the place he was living, and wanted to go home to Europe. However, this relates to how the Pilgrims wanted to come to America. The Pilgrims and Columbus have very similar reasons, and explanations for wanting to go to a new country. Columbus begins with writing about his adventure to the Caribbean. He travels from his home in Europe to the Caribbean, and he loved it there. He claims that of the islands, “All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes; all are accessible and are filled with trees of a thousand kinds and tall, so that they seem to touch the sky.”(Columbus 1). In the beautiful place of the Caribbean he realized that if he made men work for him, he could have the power that he had not at first been offered upon his arrival. He had many Indians that he had already captured, and he intended to make them work for him. Upon him choosing to do this, he ruined his beautiful home in the Caribbean. He wrote in a letter to King Ferdinand of Spain, when he thinks of the other lands, “I never think without weeping...the people are in a languid state although they are not dead...those who left the Indies, flying from toils and speaking evil of the matter of me, have returned with official employment.” (Columbus 3). Everything he had tried to do with his new land backfired on him. He requests to be sent back
Olaudah Equiano was a boy who lived in Nigeria. When …show more content…
One day, him and his sister were sitting in the stands in the trees, when they were both kidnapped. Taken by grown men who were much more powerful than them, they were not quite sure what to do. They were both so fatigued and hungry, that the only “relief was some sleep” (Equiano 1). Obviously, this is not an occurrence they had wanted to happen. No young child wants to be kidnapped and taken away from everything he knows. The struggles that Equiano had to go through being kidnapped were nothing a young child should have to go through. Equiano claims that “The only comfort we had was being in one another’s arms all that night, and bathing each other with our tears.” (Equiano 1). The kidnappers had to force feed Equiano, for he was just continually grieving. This demonstrates that Equiano in no way wanted to be taken to this place he was being taken, he at first knew very little about where they could be taking him, and the other slaves on the boat. For a moment Equiano even thought that they were going to kill him right on the spot, due to him being tossed around by the crew which was speaking a language he couldn’t even understand. Equiano saw no hope for every …show more content…
However, Columbus wanted to go home, he hadn’t enjoyed the place he was living, and wanted to go home to Europe. However, this relates to how the Pilgrims wanted to come to America. The Pilgrims and Columbus have very similar reasons, and explanations for wanting to go to a new country. Columbus begins with writing about his adventure to the Caribbean. He travels from his home in Europe to the Caribbean, and he loved it there. He claims that of the islands, “All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes; all are accessible and are filled with trees of a thousand kinds and tall, so that they seem to touch the sky.”(Columbus 1). In the beautiful place of the Caribbean he realized that if he made men work for him, he could have the power that he had not at first been offered upon his arrival. He had many Indians that he had already captured, and he intended to make them work for him. Upon him choosing to do this, he ruined his beautiful home in the Caribbean. He wrote in a letter to King Ferdinand of Spain, when he thinks of the other lands, “I never think without weeping...the people are in a languid state although they are not dead...those who left the Indies, flying from toils and speaking evil of the matter of me, have returned with official employment.” (Columbus 3). Everything he had tried to do with his new land backfired on him. He requests to be sent back