Peter Harle's Migration

Migration, although a strenuous and in most cases harrowing task, can have its own perquisites. Whether you are traveling on a raft or boat, there is reasoning behind fleeing your country and electing another. In contrary to popular belief, many of the push and pull factors that drive people out of their country and into another are generally analogous to one another. This is the story of Peter Harle. Peter Harle was born in Torak, Yugoslavia, now known as Serbia, on January 4th, 1932. He was one of 580,000 German immigrants that came to America in the 1950’s. He worked several jobs in order to subsist and eventually establish his own company which became a burgeoning business and his American dream was no longer an aspiration but rather a fundamental feature of the aftermath of hard work and anguish. …show more content…
Langfitt in hopes of achieving the ubiquitously coveted American dream. He was employed in a factory, with aspirations of learning English; however his colleagues were all German. Albeit an arduous decision, he traversed the boundary of his comfort zone that many immigrants adhere to and undertook work outside his community. He later tied the proverbial knot with Rosa Andrade, an immigrant from Ecuador and together they embraced the onerous responsibility to raise four children. While he was selling used cars, he had an epiphany into the inadequacy of financing for those with insufficient credit. In ensuing years, through travailed efforts , he erected a financial company that prospered and his aspiration that America had offered was ultimately