All Summer In A Day Immigrants

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“Immigration” and “All Summer in a Day” The story “All Summer in a Day” and the excerpt from “Immigration” are similar in many ways. However, when one reads the two titles, they would not think that both of the texts are similar. From the title of the story “All Summer in a Day”, it seems like the story will be about a happy, bright summer. But, in fact it’s the opposite. It is about a girl who moves to a new place where her classmates don’t really like her. In both texts, the characters migrate to different places and face many different challenges and obstacles. The story “All Summer in a Day” and the excerpt from “Immigrants” are similar in many ways. Immigration takes place in both texts. In “All Summer in a Day”, Margot and her family migrates from Earth to a place where it rains all day - …show more content…

The kids would bully Margot in many ways. In the text “Immigrants”, many families migrated although it was not easy.The migrants had to take a test before migrating.If one would fail the test they were forced to return to their homeland.Also many of the migrant’s names were changed.When they were asked for their name, the officer would write down what he thinks he heard or he would change it up on purpose. Another similarity is that in both texts the character were not delighted after migrating. In the story “All Summer in a Day” Margot did not want to stay on Venus,rather she wanted to go back to Earth. I know this because it was stated in the text “There was talk that her father and mother were taking her back to Earth next year; it seemed vital to her that they do so -”. In the text “Immigrants” the migrant’s names were changed when they migrated.Your name is a title that represent you,who you are, your culture and your religion. Once the migrant’s name was changed they were not themselves

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