I like the way that the author Camille Dungy has the audience to imagine you have traveled on a ship in 1910-1940 from china to America (Camille Dungy pg79) this is representing on what all they need to go through to be an American. She has put you in the position of a Iranian coming to America and stating the facts of how they have suffered on their journey.
There is a wall in san francisco with a poem from some of solder immigrants. The wall was then painted after a few years but to this day you can see a little of this different language “the language, actually marked on an old tongue” ( Camille Dungy pg82) the person was definitely suffering like the average american. This poem had mattered to someone at the time, and with the dialogue the person whom wrote this poem was willing to talking with other poets. Professor Charles Egan had come to a figuration that the description of the poem was meant for people to read about how lonely this poet was and how he was suffering with at the time. …show more content…
To me being an American is going through all the tough things in order to be just like us like taking lok ship rides or going through hard
There is a wall in san francisco with a poem from some of solder immigrants. The wall was then painted after a few years but to this day you can see a little of this different language “the language, actually marked on an old tongue” ( Camille Dungy pg82) the person was definitely suffering like the average american. This poem had mattered to someone at the time, and with the dialogue the person whom wrote this poem was willing to talking with other poets. Professor Charles Egan had come to a figuration that the description of the poem was meant for people to read about how lonely this poet was and how he was suffering with at the time. …show more content…
To me being an American is going through all the tough things in order to be just like us like taking lok ship rides or going through hard