Throughout the novel, immigrants start to become more and more exposed to assimilation, nativism, and xenophobia. ... By examining the novel My Antonia, by Willa Cather, one can see that the novel feeds off of immigration and would not be the same if the protagonist, Antonia Shimerda, were not an immigrant. ... The Nebraska prairie of the novel is an "ethnic soup", combining American born settlers with a wide range of European immigrants. ... Throughout the novel, the immigrants are the ones who are stuck with the lower class jobs. ... By examining the novel My Antonia, it is clear that ...

• Word Count: 1322
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• Grade Level: High School

Nilda, the protagonist in the novel Nilda by Nicholosa Mohr uses her knowledge of the English language to obtain an identity in the United States. ... The mother in this novel one could see just does not have the time to learn the language because of her other responsibilities due to her family. ... Immigrant women also face cultural conflicts that affect adjustment to life in the United Sates. ... Immigrant women are also considered a low priority for services in many mainstream programs. ... Low-income immigrant women do not fit this profile. ...

• Word Count: 1038
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Setting in "The Bluest Eye" Time 1940-41 The novel is divided into the four seasons Place Lorain, Ohio (Morrison's home town) It is more preciously set around Broadway, Twenty-First and Thirty-Fifth Streets. At the time the story takes place Lorain is a small industrial town populated with immigrant: Europeans, Mexicans and Southern blacks who lived next to each other. ... To some degree, she also questions the benevolvence of nature, as when Claudia wonders whether the earth itself might have been unyielding to someone like Pecola (p. 164) The House The ...

• Word Count: 384
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In 1906, Upton Sinclair published his novel The Jungle portraying the immigrant workers in the meat industry. ... Immigrants, particularly low-education immigrants (many of whom are unauthorized), are more responsive than natives to the business cycle" (Orrenius 97). ... In Brain Drain Revisited, Carrington explains how immigration increases the GDP of the country receiving immigrants. ... Carrington implies in theory, by allocate people (immigrants) to a country where wage is high, human resource will functioning at maximum output level to provide the optimal benefits to the country rece...

• Word Count: 2954
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

My thesis is from the novel, The Joy Luck Club. ... There are some differences between Chinese-American immigrants to the United States and other immigrants to the United States. ... Another one of the differences between Chinese-American immigrants to other immigrants is their culture. ... As a result of all these differences, the differences between Chinese-American immigrants cannot be applied to all immigrants. ... Tan's newest novel is The Bonesetter's Daughter in the year 2001. ...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The reader follows the life of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuania immigrant who struggles to survive in the harsh conditions of Chicago. ... This novel displayed the reality of life in the meatpacking industry. ... This was similar to the way that capitalism worked during this novel. It looked good on the outside, but on the inside, it was putrid and caused the abuse and deaths of many immigrants and workers. ... Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel about the evils of capitalism and the struggles of an immigrant in America. ...

• Word Count: 350
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

This poor immigrant was a young Anzia Yezierska, beloved author of the book Hungry Hearts. ... Yezierska entwines colorful language with beautiful story lines to form one strikingly influential novel of dreams, irony, and strife. ... Yezierska's transition from one character to another is swift and easy to follow, unlike some novels I have read in previous years. ... This book also destroyed most of the stereotypes I had about immigrants. ... This novel has touched my heart in more ways than one, and it is a must read for everyone. ...

• Word Count: 432
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

La Fonteria is located right on the Mexican border, and has had a reputation for illegal immigrant crossings. ... In Bapsi Sidhwa's novel, Cracking India, there was a huge constraint by the borderline that was drawn up as a result of the Partition. ... The horrors of the Partition are described very well in this novel. ...

• Word Count: 616
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

It clearly illustrates the real problems that surround the daily life of Americans and illegal immigrants on the Mexican border. ... The novel contrasts their lives and uncovers their feelings to the reader. ... Candido and America have no dwelling in the novel, this is often a real problem for the poor Mexican immigrants who live near the border. Racism is a big issue in the novel. ... The novel however stereotypes the characters in the novel. ...

• Word Count: 334
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Two main characters from both novels realize the importance of their ethnic background in the most unlikely of places. ... Certain structures give credit to the presence of national identity in the novels. ... Both novels use world wars to explore the emphasis of nationality in one's identity. ... In both novels the characters" nationalities, with respect to identity, function in the same fashion. ... Knowledge of occupation lends itself to the larger idea of nationality's importance to identity in the novels. ...

• Word Count: 1671
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Boyle, a proponent of immigration and advocate of both legal and illegal immigrants. In the novel The Tortilla Curtain Boyle uses the extended-analogy of the coyote to draw parallel lines between the actual coyote and the symbolic coyote. Boyle uses the actual coyote to show how they live in reality and He uses the symbolic coyote to mirror the lives of the illegal immigrants to coyotes. ... A coyote is an adaptable animal, which Boyle makes almost unquestionably certain but he also portrays the same theme in illegal immigrants. ... (Pg 212) Boyle uses almost the same exact scene to po...

• Word Count: 420
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Migrating to these countries that are so different from her place of birth enabled her to write very powerful novels on immigrant experiences. Mukherjee's novels focus on exploring the migration and the feeling of alienation that is experienced by these immigrants. ... Jasmine's arrival in America is the beginning of her metamorphoses as an immigrant While in America, Jasmine is at times a struggling victim. ... Someone may say that Jasmine is about a victim struggling in America or that it is about an immigrant who has assimilated herself into becoming an American. ... Jasmine...

• Word Count: 980
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Both novels, The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy and Disappearing Moon Café by Sky Lee, explore the Chinese immigrant experience in Canada and its effect on individual identity throughout each generation. Taking a nostalgic look back at Vancouver during the early 1940's, life of a Chinese immigrant was characterized by many social, economic and personal hardships, which can be seen in the novel, The Jade Peony. ... The elderly people in the novel resisted changing, fearing a loss of culture and identity. ... It was indeed the opposite that immigrants attained. Throughout the course ...

• Word Count: 1942
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair was an important novel for the Twentieth Century in American history and made a big role in how industries, people, and American society in general functions like it does today. ... And we had nothing to eat- (page 170) Upton Sinclair depicts the lifestyles for immigrants to be very rough and in some cases, a lot of tragedy takes place on an "average" day in the life of an immigrant. The novel showed the hardships immigrants had to go through, and what The novel showed how the Labor Movement in the 1920's affected the United States. ...

• Word Count: 366
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Immigrants look at entrance to America as a privilege or even something that will make them prosperous. Sinclair is stating that immigrants are not easily accepted into society. ... In this quote, Upton Sinclair further proves his point about the general population and how they take advantage of these immigrants. ... Immigration happens to be a topic he targets often throughout his novel. It can be looked upon as an important issue in this novel....

• Word Count: 473
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• Grade Level: High School

Pulitzer Prize winner, Juhmpa Lahiri, effectively conveys the theme of the alienation experienced by immigrants assimilating into a new place and the exposure of two cultures, relative to how one's 'home' reflects on their identity in the novel, The Namesake. This bildungsroman novel, set in both India and America and which follows a Bengali family's attempts at assimilating within American culture, portrays this theme throughout. ... Her children, for whom assimilation comes more naturally and represent the next generation of immigrants, influence Ashima's alienat...

• Word Count: 1254
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Graduate

Parties like the ones thrown in the novel were often occurrences for he wealth during that time period. ... Race was a very common issue in the period in which this novel was written as well as immigration. ... Immigrants were coming from all over to American in hopes of creating better lives for themselves and their families. ... In an effort to make some money being here in a new country, immigrants who weren't lucky enough to snag a job took part in the bootlegging of alcohol which was a fast way for money during those times because of the prohibition act. In the novel, Gatsby states ...

• Word Count: 758
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Sinclair corrupts the "American Dream" that the immigrants have imagined since migrating here to America. The immigrants grew excitement knowing they were going to receive jobs, live on land of acceptance, and begin living the "American Dream". ... Sinclair does a very well job of portraying an accurate picture of the meat packing industry causing the image of the "American Dream" to get twisted around in the immigrants head. ... His life slowed down here within the next two years, which was until 1904 when Fred Warren, the editor of social journal Appeal to Reason, assigned him to write a nov...

• Word Count: 1827
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, Bread Givers, author Anzia Yezierska tells the story of life as an immigrant in the Untied States. ... In the 1920's, an immigrant's gender ultimately decided what experience he or she would have in America, for it was far better to be a male than a female. ... The fact that this novel was written in the first person leads most to believe that it is autobiographical. ... My thoughts are that this book is painstakingly accurate of early twentieth century immigrant life. ... In this novel Yezierska writes of a girl breaking from tradition, social and parental defiance,...

• Word Count: 705
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle published in 1906 is considered the novel that led to his "fame." ... During that time period the meatpacking factories were the only places an immigrant could find a job. ... Throughout the novel Sinclair also discusses the meaning and foundation of Socialism which he was a strong member of that party. ... In Chicago in the 1900's Socialism was just beginning to set up a home with all of the immigrants. ... After reading the novel and realizing what occurred in the early 1900's to the immigrants who needed to find homes and or jobs to survive and ho...

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• Grade Level: High School

This father, Baba, and son, Amir, are followed in Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner. ... These experiences are directly mirrored in his novel. ... Hosseini's novel evaluates the immigrant experience through the struggle of the characters. ... The Kite Runner retells Amir and Baba's struggles as an example of the immigrant experience. ... This novel serves as a warning-the American dream is only a figurative, hallucinatory fantasy. ...

• Word Count: 1319
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

As the plot develops; the novel features foreshadowing. There are several scenes in the novel that exhibit his overall outcome. ... Being an immigrant surrounded by no one but other immigrants, it is understandable why she found it so hard. ... None of the other immigrants in her community fit Sara's definition of being an American. ... She felt like an outsider in America from the very beginning of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1142
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

One issue that Sinclair explains throughout the novel is exploitation and greed. ... Though it may not be that noticeable, immigrants are still be held to exploitation and greed. Secondly, Sinclair shows the dangerous and unfair labor issues the immigrants faced. ... Today, Immigrants do not face as much danger as they used to. Immigrants do still face issues with living conditions, however, the conditions are improving. ...

• Word Count: 578
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In his novel, "The Jungle," Upton Sinclair reveals the horrors and injustices of industrial Chicago. ... The main character Jurgis comes to America as an immigrant with the hopes of making himself into a successful man. ... Throughout the novel, Jurgis learns things that exposed the cruelties of society. ... Throughout the novel, Jurgis and his family were struggling to find jobs over the span of a couple years. ... Sinclair used his novel, by connecting with readers, to tell a story of a Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, whose move to start a new life with his family in America turned into...

• Word Count: 1441
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

According to The Health Anthology of American Literature "The underlying theme of the novel is of a political and social nature, illustrating the industrial exploitation of immigrants who were forced to work under unpleasant conditions." ... Immigrant labor in the early 20th century was a harsh reality that many looking for new opportunities in America had to deal with. To these immigrants, a successful future looked optimistic from their homelands. ... His intention was to direct the conscience of America to the inhuman conditions in which immigrant labor was put to work. ... Later in the ...

• Word Count: 1331
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate