The Long-Long Journey Sparknotes

The finding of the Americans was a life changing discovery for the Europeans. Although it was a dream come true for many foreigners to become an American, they were completely unaware of the several obstacles that were needed to actually earn that title. The documentary The Long Long Journey shows the struggles of a polish family migrating to the US during early 18th century. This documentary shows not only the perspective of Europeans of new America, but as well as show how “Americans” treated the immigrants. This film begins off with hundreds of Europeans traveling by boat to NYC. During this time, many Slavs, Polishes, Russians and several other Europeans sought to flee their homes due to harsh conditions in their country. Janket faced numerous challenges to

For example when Janket attended school the other students made fun of him throughout his efforts to speak English. And since he is foreign to the language, his accent made it difficult for born and raised citizens to comprehend his sentences and communicate with him. Since everyone else in his environment were fluent in English, they didn’t understand the struggles. Furthermore, when Janket was peeling a potato outside during recess and another kid had handed him a banana saying that “ only green ones eat potatoes”; he was referring to the Irish. The student was implying that since Janket was Polish, he didn’t have the “ right” to eat whatever he chooses. The student even goes on to humiliate Janket by handing in a unfamiliar fruit. Now since Janket was not native to bananas he was unaware of the “normal” way to consume such a fruit. He was later made fun of and picked on for his inability to act like a typical American. Immigrants have a difficult just adjusting into the their countries and shouldn’t be harassed for their efforts to become