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This 5 page paper discusses several readings and what the American experience has been for the characters in these stories. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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been for the characters in these stories. Discussion If there is a thread running through these works, it is that America is not the land of dreams and hopes
that the immigrants expected. It is harsh and cruel, and materialistic beyond what they were led to believe. Its also problematic: it crushes some of them but
gives others the opportunity to build the life they wanted; what it does not do is hand them that life "on a silver platter." Because there are so many
stories and theyre so different, lets take a brief look at them and then expand on the idea of what it costs to succeed in America. We begin with
Anzia Yezierskas "The Lost Beautifulness". All Hanneh Hayyeh does is scrimp to buy paint for her kitchen; she wants to make it beautiful for her sons homecoming.
But by painting it, she increases the value of the property and her landlord raises her rent by $5-a huge sum in the early 1900s. She literally starves herself
in order to pay, but is eventually evicted. What the landlord is doing is unconscionable, immoral, despicable-and totally legal. Hannehs story is about the concept of justice, supposedly
a founding principle of America--but she doesnt receive it. In "The Third and Final Continent," a young Indian man moves first to London, then Boston, where he begins work at
MIT. He moves into a room rented to him by Mrs. Croft, who is over 100 years of age. They make a connection that later enables the young
man to begin building a real relationship with his wife. This is a story of the way humans can connect and influence each other; and how the young man
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