Read the following from two memoirs What sirianty do the narrators of the excerpts share. "From lithuania to the Chicago Stockyards
We were fired out when we reached the stockyards, so we stopped on the bride and looked into the river out there it was so full of grease and dirt and stide
and boxes that I looked like a wide dirty street, except in some places where told up, it made me sick to look Whenked away i could see on
one side some bilds full of holes, and these were the city dumps. On the other side were the stockyards, with twentyachines. The wind blew a big smell
from them to us. Then we walked on between the yards and the dumps and the houses tooked bad and poor in our house my room was in the basement. 1
Way down on the floor with three other men and the sit was retten. I did not go to sleep for a long time. I knew then that money was everyering needed. My
money was almost one and I thought that must yet you for this was not like home. Here money was everything
"American and
Day after day, week after week, all the contact you with America was handling dead buttons. The money learned was hardly enough to pay for bread and rent
didn't have a room to myself I didn't even have a bed. I slept on a mattress on the floor in room occupied by a dozen other immigrants. I was always hungyon
so huwi The scant meals i could afford only sharpened my appetite for real food. But I felt myself better off than working in the American family with all the
hunger and darkness of the sweat-shop, I had at least the evening to rruself. And all right was rrine. When all were asleep, i used to creep up on the roof of the
tenement and talk out my heart in silence to the stars in the sky
A Both authors worked in a shop sewing buttons
B Both authors lived near the stockyards,
C Both authors shared a living space with other people,
D Both authors were not to be living in America