Melting Pot In America Analysis

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If you think about a melting pot, then think about America they are very much the same. Many people use the metaphor “America is a melting pot” because of their many similarities. If you took people out of each country, ethnic group, and race then put them all into one country then you would get America. The same thing happens in a melting pot, you can put so many different ingredients into one pot and they come together to make one soup. So if someone were to describe an american, they could just compare them to an ingredient. Dictonary.com decribes The American dream as the ideals of freedom, equality, and oppertunity traditionally held to be available to every American. Many people believe that the American dream can be achieved, Although it …show more content…

She finds out it's not as easy as she thought it would be, if even possible to achieve. The author believes America is a place full of opportunity, then she learns that in order to be successful she has to work from the ground up. “My old dreams about my America rushed through my mind. Once I thought that in America everybody works for love. Nobody has to worry for a living” (Yezierska 72). Yezierska learned she had to start from the bottom to have a life in America. She understands now how much hard work is needed to thrive. The narrator explains how she believed everyone loved what they were doing and did not do it because they had to. She then realized how she had to first make a living, not doing what she loved. “America is no Utopia. First you must become efficient in earning a living before you can indulge in your dreams” (Yezierska 94). Immigrants have a higher standard of America because most of the time it's better than where they came from. America is not perfect. Immigrants have a harder time when beginning their life in America because they have to start from the bottom unknowing of where the bottom

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