Read Edward Corsi’s quotation from the book Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman. Edward Corsi, who later became United States Com
missioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907: My first impressions of the New World will always remain etched in my memory, particularly that hazy October morning when I first saw Ellis Island. The steamer Florida, fourteen days out of Naples, filled to capacity with 1600 natives of Italy, had weathered one of the worst storms in our captain’s memory; and glad we were, both children and grown-ups, to leave the open sea and come at last through the Narrows into the Bay. How does this quotation add credibility to Freedman’s line that the voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it?
<u>Because it's a quotation from someone who experienced what Russel Freedman exposes in his book. </u>Then, Edward Corsi can, not only give a personal view about the facts,<u> but also offers another information and experience to the book.</u>
Explanation:
Russel Freedman's book is a set of texts and photographs that can tell us a story. His book gives us a glimpse of the early days of immigration in the 1900s, but through the lens of a photographer. In many ways, Edward Corsi's quotation for this book offers a personal view of the situation of immigrant children. If Corsi was one of them, he can say more about the situation than a photograph. He can go deeper and exposes more than a photo can do.
Russel Freedman exposes in his book. Then, Edward Corsi can, not only give a personal view about the facts, but also offers another information and experience to the book.
In July 1938, Corrigan piloted the single-engine plane nonstop from California to New York. Although the transcontinental flight was far from unprecedented, Corrigan received national attention simply because the press was amazed that his rattletrap aircraft had survived the journey.
