Wow Interesting stories!!

I just want to point out that I love reading real life stories, not that these were really real life...but they had to do with real life situations!

Okay! Mary Gordon's story was all about Ellis Island and the different type of things immigrants had to endure. She really made me more interested in Ellis Island. I found it interesting , although very discriminating, how people were marked with chalk with different letters that stand for heart disease or eye troubles I do however understand that, that was nessesary to make america the way that people thought it should be. It was sad to read that so many people were told they couldn't live in America and had to go back to whereever they came from, and because of that some of those people killed themselves.
Youth and american identity wasn't that interesting for me, but all in all okay. I really liked how this essay was set up and can remembering reading and enjoying these in highschool. I don't think anyone really knows what the future holds or what future generations of people will be like...we all think that people can only get smarter with time, but maybe the reverse is true. So I guess I believe what Grossburg's story is trying to say?.