Compare And Contrasteerage By David Citine

From the poem “Steerage” by David Citino and the article “Voyage of Hope, Voyage of Tears” by Mimi Boelter I can infer that the immigrants lives are very challenging while they go through tasks to get to America. They are not the lives anyone would to live in but they know that in the end they will get to the great country of America. They had shed much tears but they still had hope that this would all pay off. Some immigrants were very poor and they didn’t have a good boat ride during the immigration because they bought the tickets at a cheap rate. These stories can tell you what it is like to be an immigrant to the United States around the 1900’s. Especially if you were a steerage passenger because they had to go through a lot.

In “Steerage”, a poem by David Citino, you can tell that it was a horrible life for steerage passengers through an image at the beginning of the poem. The rest of the poem reflects on that image and can tell you more about the picture. Citino says that no matter what photograph there is, you can tell what's right and wrong. He commands the reader’s attention when he says “Look with me inside this ship.”(Citino) and he shows how crowded it was on the ship with families. You can tell the lives of

This is where the emotions will hit you. They had to go through a lot to get to live another country. All the emigrants had to be examined and give most of their personal information. The steerage passengers had to live with a shortage of privacy and freshwater. The mattresses were small and uncomfortable and they got sick due to the stuffy air and some died from it. The smell of vomit traveled through the bottom of the ship. They felt so free when they saw the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island and all they had to do from there was go through one more immigration process and they lived in great