Immigration Case
Essay by jackremington56 • December 4, 2012 • Essay • 537 Words (3 Pages) • 1,175 Views
Migrating can be a big obstacle to overcome. It is challenging emotionally and can physically tire you. Everyone has their own story and reason to move into other countries. This story "The Arrival" is about a family that moved in search of a new home. Opportunity, freedom, and a clean slate to start from are some of the reasons they move, because their old home they used to live in doesn't fit their needs.
This family is very gentle and peaceful and the father packs his thing to find a better life style. Their whole neighborhood is crawling with monster and what that is supposed to symbolize is that the place is inhabitable. Many families migrate to another country because it just isn't enough. When he arrives at the boat to travel by sea, like many immigrants do when arriving to America, he isn't the only one moving there, and groups of people get packed inside the boat. The process to registration immigrants is brutal, checking your health, sight, and understandings of the countries customs. He has many facial expressions of confusion, but it wasn't only him, but the government had to deal with communicating with foreigners when they migrated here and who knows how they started to understand each other.
In this world we see many items and activities that look strange to our point of view. This seems to portray how immigrants feel when arriving to a country unfamiliar to them. From the sport they play, language we speak, and customs we are use to. Communication between two different people can be very difficult, it is a good thing that drawings of what you see can be understood by anyone with 20/20 vision (unless you are a bad artist). Difficult things to adjust to, is trying to find a new home to settle in. In this story he finds one very easily, but many families travel all around the city to find a perfect place to settle. When in a new country knowing how to get around the neighborhood can be hard to figure out alone. Socializing can be very important. The people have lived in the country for quite a while; they can assist you with the basics of where to go or how to get there. No matter how far you travel though the places don't cease to confuse you, but with the help of others and good people it can all go well.
Things can get really bad if you don't have a job to support you or your family. It can be really hard to obtain a job if you are new to the job market and you don't know how get skills for a job or put where to ask for one in the first place. As far as immigrants go they can only be hired for simple minded jobs like working in a factory. When the main character is all settled in the country, sends a letter to his family. Months past, then he receives a letter back, he runs outside and finds his family is there with him. Many immigrants settle their homes in other prosperous countries to live a happy new life with their family in their new home.
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