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 mother, my stepfather, my brother Giuseppe, and my two sisters, Liberta and Helvetia, all of us together, happy that we had come through the storm safely, clustered on the foredeck for fear of separation and looked with wonder on this miraculous land of our dreams. How does this quotation add credibility to Freedman's statement that the immigrants believed that in America life would be better? It comes from a mother who clustered with her children on a boat. It comes from a writer who authored books about the American dream. It comes from an immigrant who called America the land of his dreams. It comes from a teacher who studied immigrants in American history.
This quotation adds credibility to Freedman's statement that the immigrants believed life in America would be better because:
C. It comes from an immigrant who called America the land of his dreams.
Explanation:
The quotation we are analyzing here serves to support Freedman's statement, giving it trustworthiness. According to Freedman, immigrants saw America as the place for a fresh start, where life could be better than before, than it was where they came from. What better way to support that statement than by quoting an immigrant? Edward Corsi's quotation confirms Freedman's statement. He and his family, upon arriving in New York in 1907, where excited about this "miraculous land of our dreams."
The author writes that the ordeal of the voyage was worth it. He develops this idea by including a quotation that tells what the voyage was like and how immigrants felt about arriving to the US. The quotation gives credibility to the author's idea and makes the text stronger because it is from an immigrant who had firsthand experience making the voyage and arriving in the states.
