HURRY PLEASERead the excerpt from Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman, and then answer the question.
According to the passage, immigrants never forgot
seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time. How does
the quotation from Edward Corsi develop this topic?
The great majoríty of immigrants landed in New York
City, at America's busiest port. They never forgot their
first glim pse of the Statue of Liberty.
Edward Corsi, who later became United States
Commissioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old Italian
immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907:
O It provides a firsthand experience from a primary
source, who says that "a steadily rising din filled the
air
O It provides a firsthand experience from a primary
My first impressions of the New World will always
remain etched in my memory, particularly that
hazy October morning when I first saw Elis Island.
The steamer Florida, fourteen days ut of Naples,
filled to capacity with 1600 natives of Italy, had
weathered one of the worst storms in our captain's
source, who says that he "held tightly to Stepfather's
hands."
It provides a firsthand experience from a primary
source, who says the day will "always remain etched
in my memory.
O It provides a firsthand experience from a primary
source, who says the weather was "one of the worst
storms in our captain's memory."
memory: and glad we were, both children and
grown-ups, to leave the open sea and come at last