Moving To The United States: Personal Narrative Analysis

Over the years i slowly found myself noticing my fellow classmates that i've known since i was 3 migrate to different countries for various reasons. What i never expected was to be one of those people. At the age of 12 i packed my whole life into a suitcase and moved to the united states without actually knowing why. All i knew was things in my country, Sri Lanka was falling apart due to political corruption and the only way to ensure a safer future was to leave. As a child i had been lucky enough to visit extraordinary places like singapore, china and hawaii for long periods of time. So in my mind, traveling to the united states was like one of those old family trips where we would shop and sight see. It was like that in the beginning but a few months passed by …show more content…
I never actually thought about how or why my parents chose to move to the United States. I chose to believe it was because of the political corruption back home in Sri Lanka which prevented my parents from continuing with their jobs, but now i realize that moving here was like entering the promised land, full of opportunities not only for them but mostly for my brother and i. My parents had the opportunity to hold on to a job without any fear and i have the opportunity to receive an excellent education before moving on to higher education. My father always lectures my brother and i on the topic and never lets us forget that the reason we relocated was to give us better opportunities than what we would have received in Sri Lanka. But we wouldn't have opportunities like the ones we have unless the country changed. For a period of time in U.S history immigrants weren't even allowed into the county and there was intense racial segregation. But now the United states has evolved into this culturally diverse nation which offers not only new opportunities and religious freedom, but something more important,