Freedom is difficult to achieve in an American Society. The New Colossus and Alabanza Both of these works express about how immigrants try to come to America to find a new beginning to change their world. Without the comparison of these stories and their expression about these works people would not be able to understand the life of immigrants and what they have to go through, power, oppression and being other by society.
First, Power is showed through the story The New Colossus written by Emma Lazarus. The power comes from the statue of liberty when it says “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. This Quote is a kind of command telling the immigrants to come like the statue has power it is telling them to come to America telling them that their lives could change here because their country could not offer them change. In a sense the statue of liberty acts like a border separating the immigrants from American society. Through the whole poem there was no resistance the immigrants were …show more content…
In this poem Resistance was seen through the whole poem. The people in this story had a voice they could be heard especially when the poem had a quote that said “Praise the dish-dog, the dishwasher who worked that morning” meaning they are giving to be noticed because he was an undocumented worker which was working overtime to feed his family because he was an illegal immigrant that came to work in America to help his family and to better their lives. Through this poem there was not a show off power. This poem Alabanza the power was spread out to everyone as if the people who worked in the kitchen had the power because there were many of them. The power is separated thought the workers in that kitchen as if they are working together. This poem describes that the workers in the kitchen are heroes who sacrifice their time and life to give their family a better