Immigrants In Alan Zangwill's The Melting Pot

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sufficiently high rates to make a profit despite the occasional large claim” (158). Therefore, the insurance companies took benefit from the Triangle fire, disregarding the loss of dozens of lives.
The central themes of this novel are immigration to America in the early 20th century and the problems which they suffered from. It is the common phrase that America is a melting pot of the world, where workers come from all parts of the earth, to work hard and to build the American dream. This phrase comes from a play which is not written by a native, but an immigrant. “Israel
Zangwill’s new play, The Melting Pot, opened on Second Avenue, the Yiddish Broadway” presented the reality which immigrants faced, and therefore, this ignites the passion

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