Class Home Work.

Q1. What is yezierska’s Initial impression of America? How does she compare it too her life in Russia.

Answer: Her impression was great about America. She realize that America was a land of living hope, woven of dreams a flame with longing and desire .She though that her life will be better then her previous life in Russia.  She always thought that America is a land of opportunity so that she can make her dream fulfill here and could be lead a better life here. Overall she feels lucky because he has a chance to be in America.

Q2. What does she aspire to do when she first arrives in America? What must she do first?

Answer: she thought that she reach in the golden land of flowing opportunity and she will be successful on her dream. She was very well ambition about her future and will make everything happen what she couldn’t able t make happen in Russia. As a new immigrant the first thing she have to do is that make arrangement of his food and house for living. But for that she have to pry and for that she need a job too.

Q3. Do you think “Americanized Family” treats her family? Why or why not?

Answer: No. that “Americanize family” didn’t treat her as their family. They always threat her as a servant. And they didn’t pay her because of that she is new and she doesn’t speak English. She work from early morning to till late night but didn’t pay her.

Q4. What was the best part of her second job on Delaney Street? Why did she end up losing it?

Answer: I think the best part of her second job was that it prepared her to be trained worker in a regular factory. She ended up losing her second job because she wanted evenings to herself. For that she quite that job.

Q5. What kind of work does anzia prefer to do? What is stopping her?

Answer: she always think that happiness is the only by working at what she love. She want to do something with her head and with her feelings. But one of her main problem is her language barrier. She was unable to express what she want to say. She was trying hard to make that happen. She was trying hard to learn English very quickly.

Q6. Do you agree with the authors argument that immigrant should receive free room and board?

Answer: yes I agree with author’s argument that immigrants should receive free room and board when they come to America. This is because immigrants work really hard for such low wage to support themselves. As a new immigrants its really are to find anything to find a new job or new place to live. I a criminal can get all those facilities than why not an immigrants can’t get that. They are not doing anything wrong or anything harmful for this county.

Q7. What lessons she learn from the pilgrims? How did this knowledge transform her idea of what it takes to succeed in America? Do you agree with her assessment?

Answer: Anzia learned that the pilgrims and she were a bit similar. Basically the concept in pilgrim is to make America, build America and create own world of liberty. I am agree with her assessment. Yes she was really trying to build herself as a successful in this country and those concept can transform with her dream.

Q8. How does the author utilize the concepts of “hunger” and “appetite” to bring other her thesis?

Answer: As an article I read in by that hunger and appetite are two different things Hunger is the physical need for food whereas appetite is the desire for food. Hunger occurs with low levels of glucose in your blood, several hours after eating – it is protective mechanism that ensures your body is adequately fueled. Appetite is the conditioned response to food- it is sensory reaction to the look or smell of food. It is appetite that can lead “your eyes to be bigger than your stomach” the author utilizes the concepts of hunger and appetite to bring out her thesis by putting hunger as her lowest.