They set up shop in their home like many other immigrants. ... I can imagine how hard Sara's work was in the novel "Bread Givers"". ... The windowless kitchen, five people sleeping in one bedroom, and picking up the heavy water bucket, it is hard to imagine how these poor immigrant women carried these up multiple flights daily. ... Although I am not a descendant of immigrants, I feel as though I should further treasure my life in New York. ...

• Word Count: 474
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Ragtime, written by E. ... The novel opens at the house of the upper class family. ... The immigrant family in the Lower East Side are suffering from poverty. ... While visiting the immigrant family, Evelyn goes with them to a socialist meeting, and she is criticized by the speaker about her sexuality and being in a capitalistic society. ... In this novel, it basically shows that hardships come upon any family. ...

• Word Count: 937
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In this novel are many things which bring the feeling of sadness to the reader's mind.. Born in Brooklyn as an irish immigrant and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. ... In this novel are many things which bring the feeling of sadness to the reader's mind. ... There are a total of 3 deaths in the first chapter of the novel, so you can see how these deaths bring suffering to the family. ...

• Word Count: 463
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The novel, "The Diviners", was written by Margaret Laurence in 1974. ... The novel itself deals with the protagonist Morag Gunn, a successful forty-seven-year-old novelist who has bought a farm in rural Ontario, where she is trying to write a novel. ... The entire novel deals with her childhood in a small Manitoba town and later on as a young adult in Vancouver, where she decides to study. ... Canada's society of today consists of these immigrants, including the Indians. ... In general you can see as the reader, that Margaret Laurence depicts the struggle of a young woman in her novel, Mo...

• Word Count: 785
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The novel is an account of how the author goes through the process of immigration and absorbtion into American society and how she moves from being a new immigrant to a true American. ... While the book is a novel, there is at least a little piece of the author in every book she wrote, and this one is no exception. ...

• Word Count: 559
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The real story revolves around the integration and eventual disintegration of Jurgis Rudkis and his family, Lithuanian immigrants who move to the Chicago stockyards in hopes of a better life. Unfortunately, their hopes quickly disintegrate; like thousands of other unskilled immigrants at the turn of the century, financial necessity forces them into virtual slave labor in order to survive. ... "The Jungle" shows the relationship between the animals that were being slaughtered and the workers who were slaughtering them, from very early in the novel. ... Immigrants with peasant backgrounds, and e...

• Word Count: 1382
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

1) The main purpose The main purpose of this novel is James McBride's search of his identity, instantaneously is race, as it involves a person's skin color. ... Growing up without such information became an issue that eventually became an obsession for him to figure out his family history, especially his mother's mysterious life that was never discussed. 3) The most important information Page#2 Ruchel Dwajra Zylska was an immigrant. ...

• Word Count: 364
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

The novel begins with the strong description of a wedding in which Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Rudkus are united in Holy Matrimony. ... America uses the image of the "American Dream" to lure immigrants to this land of opportunity. ... The majority of the immigrant society possess very little money. ...

• Word Count: 810
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", Maya Angelou has reconstructed her personal history into this autobiographical tale whose protagonist is the child narrator, Maya. Within the novel Maya has many obstacles to overcome, most importantly her sense of abandonment and feeling of not belonging. ... When they return to Stamps, they do not feel engulfed by a sense of familiarity; instead, it seems like a "strange country" and everyone behaves like "newly arrived immigrants". ... It is in the final chapter of the novel that we finally begin to see Maya feel this sense of belonging agai...

• Word Count: 914
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The other members of the club "Lindo, Ying-ying, and An-mei "were three of Suyuan's best friends and fellow immigrants before she had passed on. ... Jing-mei speaks for Suyuan in the two mother sections of the novel. ... A very well written and explanatory novel, although more towards a more mature audience that can relate; it shows emotion, and movement throughout itself...

• Word Count: 579
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Garcia's novel, Dreaming in Cuban, looks at the history of Cuba through the everyday events of four women of different generations and schools of thought. ... The claim that Pilar remembers everything in Cuba after having only lived there two years as an infant is absurd, but it drives at the notions of nostalgia, idealization, and idolization that are so relevant in the shaping of Latin-American identity in the twentieth century for those Latin-American immigrants who now reside somewhere other than their native land or the native land of their parents. ...

• Word Count: 559
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

David Adams Richards illustrates this matter regarding family relationships in his novel, Nights Below Station Street. ... To begin with, the novel shows that children are always their parents" primary concern. ... With this, Amy Tan touches on an obscure, little discussed issue, which is the divergence of Chinese culture through American children born of Chinese immigrant parents. ... Thus, the novel reveals that a parent's love for his/her children is forever in existence. ... Therefore, the novel shows how children fail to recognize their parents" love for them. ...

• Word Count: 1303
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Clarke assembles eight short stories each having unique characters and plots that tell about different aspects of the lives of immigrants in Toronto. ... Vittorio's father was also one of such immigrants who left Valle del Sole. ... In the novel There are no Elders, we are introduced to a man, the narrator, and his friend named John who unite after fifty years literally bumping in to each other on the street. ...

• Word Count: 2760
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

Kate Chopin was the daughter of an immigrant Irishman, Thomas O'Flaherty and a French-American mother, Eliza Faris. ... By 1889, Chopin had written four short stories and was in the process of writing her first novel, At Fault. ...

• Word Count: 1006
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The purpose of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was to bring the grim conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry and its workers to the American public's attention. After Sinclair was commissioned to investigate labor conditions in the Chicago stockyards he wrote about his observations in The Jungle. ...

• Word Count: 1116
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The relationship between a mother and a daughter is full of complex values and feelings this is evident in the novel The Joy Luck Club. ... From the beginning of the novel, we hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II. ... This quote by Suayan shows her immigrant belief in the perfect American Dream and all her hopes for future daughter. ... This novel has not only given great insight into the Chinese way of thinking and living, but it has shown the great contrast that occurs from generation to generation, in the passin...

• Word Count: 2133
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

My parents are Mexican immigrants and this is who I am: this man who has an Indian face and a Spanish surname and an Anglo first name, Richard." ... The Webster's College Dictionary definition of Bildungsroman is "a novel dealing with the education and development of its protagonist". ... Roman simply means "novel". Rodriguez's "The Achievement of Desire" is not a novel, but it has all the characteristics of a Bildungsroman. ...

• Word Count: 2210
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In this novel, Yunior's father, Ramon, came in and out of the family's life. ... The book "Drown," by Junot Diaz is a collection of short stories that conveys to the audience the struggles that Dominican Republic immigrants face in the United States to achieve the same status as Americans. ...

• Word Count: 1679
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School