Ellis Island Narrative

Beverly Meyer

8th Grade

Mr. Mcfarlane

Ellis Island

Dear cousin Catherine,

I was with Mother and Father one afternoon when I told them I wanted to be Protestant.

"What do you mean you want to be Protestant?!" Father said.

"You were raised Catholic!" Mother followed.

"This is what I want. Why can't you support me?!" I replied. Father paced the floor.

"If this is what you really want, then you should have no problem leaving this house...for good." He said. I gasped.

"You can't possibly be serious!" I said astonished.

"I most certainly am," he said with complete confidence surprising me.

"Mother you can't agree with this foolishness!" I exclaimed, and looked at her. She said nothing. At a loss for words I went to my room and started

to pack my things. I have a brown suitcase with a tan handle. In my suitcase I have seven shirts, two pairs of pants, three pairs of shorts, and five skirts. I also have one pair of sneakers, five pairs of socks and one pair of dress shoes. I have two coats, and a blanket for the colder months. I then went over to my dresser and took out some money I had been saving. I had about fifty dollars. One dollar every two weeks at my job. I had cleaned tables at the local diner. I went down stairs with my things, turned to my parents, nodded my head, and went out the door.

I recently heard about Ellis Island, and thought I don’t have a lot of options in England so why not go there?

So I decided to go. I found the earliest boat ticket to Ellis Island. I had to wait till tomorrow, so that meant I had to find somewhere to sleep that night. I found this area of grass that was hilly and not very populated. I laid my blanket down and put my coat on, and the next morning I was ready to start my day.

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the aperture for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant analysis base from 1892 until 1954. The island was abundantly broadcast with acreage affirmation amid 1892 and 1934. Before that, the abundant abate aboriginal island was the website of Fort Gibson and after a argosy magazine. The island was fabricated allotment of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a building of clearing back 1990. Long advised allotment of New York, a 1998 United States Supreme Court accommodation begin that a lot of of the island is in New Jersey. The south ancillary of the island, home to the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital, is bankrupt to the accepted accessible and the article of apology efforts spearheaded by Save Ellis

Island.