Quiet Odyssey Research Paper

The United States of America is known as the land of opportunity, “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” (Emma Lazarus). As the United States was built from immigrants looking for a better life and throughout the U.S history waves of immigrants from people that come from the same country or have religion for example the European countries and wave of immigrants from Asia, and with each new influx of immigration they had to deal with unfair treatment from people already residing in the United States. Mary Paik and her family left Korea to leave the harsh life that Korea was becoming as Japanese soldiers were a growing presence in their home country to start a new life in the United States but what her family wasn’t aware that they would also face setbacks and prejudice in their new country.
Mary Paik’s family left Korea as Japanese soldiers were having a growing presence in Korea as it was used to travel to Russia during the war “Japan took advantage of the situation and started to take over Korea.” (Paik Lee 3). As the Japanese were taking advantage of the Korean people as farming land was seized and very limited, Japanese soldiers were occupying their homes which happened to Mary Paik’s home, “It turned …show more content…
Leaving a life of hardship in Korea to face even more challenges but the challenges they experienced in their new country outweighed any of the hardships if they were to stay in