Personal Narrative: My Trip To Ellis Island

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As the sunlight gleamed through my bedroom window bright and early on Sunday, May 15, 1892, I layed in my bed thinking what it would be like if i could move anywhere i wanted too. Little did i know that today would be the day that I would go to Ellis Island and become an American citizen. All I had ever wanted was for my family to live in a society that it didn’t matter whether or not you were a Jew, or a gypsy, or even a homosexual, I wanted my family to live in a place where it didn’t matter what religion you were and it didn’t matter if you had blonde hair, nor blue eyes. My family would be riding middle class on the steamboat that took us to Ellis Island, the trip overall would take about three days plus a day to get to the steamboat. Those poor 3rd class people had to walk the entire time and didn’t get a break or anything! They were trudging through the snow in old clothes and torn slippers, their feet must have been icicles. A day later we arrived at a doc that had a vast steamboat almost hovering over all of us. We had to pack all of our luggage into a port on the boat and then we had to go find a house to stay in because we wouldn’t depart for the next two days. Two very long exhausting days later we boarded the boat …show more content…

I had passed everything and I was on my way to America, but throughout that day i found out that both of my parents did not pass the health inspection and they were headed back to Germany daughterless. On my way to get on the boat a sweet lady in her early 30’s had said that if I didn’t have parents anymore then she would adopt me and I could be hers. She went on and on about how her daughter had died earlier that week and all she wanted was another daughter. After an hour or two of talking I decided that I wanted her to be my new

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