Haunted by her past, Julia Alvarez has portrayed her immigrant experience as both painful and ambiguous. ... Roberto Echevarria beautifully explains the immigrant experience. ... One immigrant explains the pain of losing a foreign homeland. "As so many immigrants and exiles know, you can never go back home. ... One review proclaimed that this novel "is not simply about adjustment and acculturation. ...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? ... Outside the packing plants, newly arrived immigrants men and women desperate for jobs offered to work for even lower wages. ... For example in New York City Chinatown many Asian immigrants still work in sweat shops, work long hours, paid the minimum wage , and are sexually harassed. ... Following graduation, Sinclair went on to graduate study at Columbia University, where he began writing full-length novels with serious social the...

• Word Count: 4457
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. ... Michael Ondaatje entwines adventure, romance and history, real and invented, enmeshing us in the lives of the immigrants who built the city and those who dreamed it into being: the politically powerful, the anarchists, bridge builders and tunnellers, a vanished millionaire and his mistress, a rescued nun and a thief who leads a charmed life. ... The readers are introduced to this concept of reflecting light even before the novel begins. ... One of many themes in this novel is the search for...

• Word Count: 3985
• Approx Pages: 16
• 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

Scott Fitzgerald began his second novel in l920. ... She is reminiscent of many of Fitzgerald's women in later novels. ... Fitzgerald's second novel explores the same waste land that pops up in so many of his other novels. ... Money plays a dominant role in this novel. ... This is a failure of the novel. ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

This brought upon him the demon of drink which led to young Upton's abhorring of it, as is evident in the novel. ... Classifying the novel is no easy task to undertake, as the author's purpose and the reader's interpretations are very different. ... While this was good news for the nations, it was disappointing for Sinclair because his purpose for the novel was not recognized. ... The novel was written in a very different and non-traditional style, adding to its uniqueness and helping get its point across to the reader. ... It was this part of the novel that gave the public a wa...

• Word Count: 2938
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

He achieved popularity in the first half of the twentieth century, acquiring particular fame for his classic muckraking novel, The Jungle that was written in 1906. ... In the first chapter, a Lithuanian immigrant couple Ona and Jurgis, arrive in Chicago and wait to be married. ...

• Word Count: 3292
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

She was the daughter of an Irish immigrant father and a French Creole mother. ... Her first novel -At Fault- was published in 1890, followed by two collections of short stories, "Bayou Folk- in 1894 and "A Night in Acadia- in 1897. ...

• Word Count: 4614
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School