1. Immigrations Role Throughout the Novel My Antonia
... 5). In its most acceptable form, the earliest sign of immigration can be called assimilation. After reading the novel, the critic Sally McNall was left "with [two] impression[s] a melting pot [and] a salad bowl"(52). The melting pot that McNall points out is simply just the assimilation process of the immigrants. The assimilation process consists of adapting to the new environment, finding a job, settling ... with out racism and violence. The salad bowl is basically all races thrown in together as one. Each ingredient represents a different race, and in a salad bowl, they become one. Th...
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