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"The Promised Land" is an auto-biography by Mary Antin from 1912. It depicts her emigration from Russia (Polotzk) to America. Antin's father, a Russian Jew escaping persecution in his homeland, had come a few years prior. The text below describes her first experiences in America. 

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"The Promised Land" is an auto-biography by Mary Antin from 1912. It depicts her emigration from Russia (Polotzk) to America. Antin's father, a Russian Jew escaping persecution in his homeland, had come a few years prior. The text below describes her first experiences in America. 

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1 - No Time To Hesitate

2 - What Have We Here

3 - My Father

4 - The Slums

5 - Union Place

6 - The First Step On The New Soil

7 - The Meal

8 - Excitement Of The Day

9 - Freedom Of Education In America

10 - Lessons and experiences

11 - New Nicknames

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1= New beginnings

2= Thoughts

3= Fathers Background

4= Describing Boston

5= New abode

6= Rules

7= Acclimatizing

8= Observations and Comparison

9= Education/Learning

10= New names

11 = Garments

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The old world lacked freedom and innovation, but it did have some level of opulence that the new world lacked. For example:

"In our days of affluence in Russia we had been accustomed to upholstered parlors, embodied linen, silver spoons and candle sticks, goblets of gold, kitchen shelves shining with copper and brass"

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1: Be quick to blend in

2: Crashing head first

3: Foreigners

4: The slums and their inhabitants

5: Two different perspectives

6: American ways

7: Foreign innovations and food

8: Free light

9: The wonders of education and kind strangers

11: Learning American

10: New clothes - New me

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The USA had freedom and innovation and it was most certainly not a stagnant civilization as opposed to Russia. Here is an excerpt from the story describing all the new services that the USA had to offer.

"In America, then, everything was free, as we had heard in Russia. Light was free, the streets were as bright as a synagogue on a holy day. Music was free"

Education was also free in America, allowing a population of more well informed individuals, and thus the growth of ideas.

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It is a First-person narrator. She experiences America for the first time, and tells about the impression. She also tells about how the immigrants are treated.

She views the story firsthand.

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Russian kid from decent background. They have 4 siblings as stated in the following excerpt:

"My father was out, but we five between us had a few words of English by this time"

Both parents are still among the living. The protagonist is exited for their new life in the states.

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Edited 19/3

When the author describes Wall Street, she comments on how the brick building is "loftier than any dwelling I had ever lived in." That means, that she has previously lived in very small buildings, if the poor houses on Wall Street impress her.

Her and her family are also very impressed by the street lights: "I was delighted with the illumination of the streets." Which would imply that they do not have that in the old world.

What they do have is "upholstered parlors, embroidered linen, silver spoons and candlesticks, goblets of gold..."

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The story is told from the perspective of a Russian girl who has immigrated to the states. She also describes what other people in her life are doing.

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1. The Arrival

2. Something new

3. A look into the past

4. An uncomfortable place

5. Different views of 2

6. The American Dream!

7. Something to eat

8. A new day to explore

9. Learning from the American

10. A brighter tomorrow

11. New me

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"America was bewilderingly strange, unimaginably complex, delightfully unexplored." That is how the author descibes, how she felt about America, when she first came there.

She is impresed by the brick streets, free light, education, and innovations such as canned food, rocking chairs and iron stoves.

The author also says that America is as it was described in Russia: "In America, then, everything was free, as we had heard in Russia." Here she is talking about the free street light, music and education.

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1: My first steps in America

2: Young curiosity

3: Untrained hands & empty pockets

4: The Boston slums

5: The cityscape

6: Greenhorns

7: Rockingchair

8: My father

9: Freedom

10: Nicknames

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1 - First steps in America

2 - Excitement and expectations

3 - Newcomers

4 - Wall Street, Boston

5 - Two perspektivs

6 - Lessen Learned

7 - New experiences

8 - The luxuries

9 - Kindness and education

10 - My new name

11 - Becoming an American

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The New World is America. It is in great contrast to the old world that they come from. America is free and full of opportunities. The problem with this shift was that many of the immigrants lacked the skillsets required in this new world. "His history for that period is the history of thousands who come to America, like him, with pockets empty, hands untrained to the use of tools, minds cramped by centuries of repression in their native countries."

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The main character is eager to be integrated into American society and is disappointed when she does not get a new, English name: "As for poor me, I was simply cheated. The name they gave me was hardly new."

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Anna H, Liva, Alberte og Sara

1. The first steps on new ground

2. Growing with America

3. An unknowing man

4. Prove your worth

5. The house of bricks

6. A Childs view

7. Exploring new things - Banana unana

8. The light side of the free land

9. Wow, free school?

10. A lot to learn

11. New identities

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How Europe is discribed in the old world

Is that it’s a traditionel place with hardships and a place with limited opportunities

Here is something she described :

In our days of afluence in Russia we had been accustomed to upholstered parlors, embroidered linen, silver spoons and candle stilks, goblets of iron, kitchen shelves shinning with copper and brass.

This shows how what they had in the old Europe and what this unknown land has.

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The story is told by a first-person narrator, and we get the point of view of an east European, who experiences America for the first time with her family.

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Underdeveloped city (buildings and houses)

Poverty and no hope

“He May know all this and yet not guess how Wall Street in the West end, appears in the eyes of a little immigrant from Polotzk(…)I Saw two imposing Rows of brick buildings, loftier than Any dwelling.”

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1: the beginning of a new journay.

2: fifteen years ago.

3: my farvers journey.

4: the dirty slum.

5: different point of views

6: green horns

7: ready to eat

8: freedom

9: free Education

10: a new me

11: fitting in america

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They had lanterns in the streets of Russia.

"(...) people did not need to carry lanterns."

"(...), as we had heard in Russia."

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She is very observant and curious. She is invested in the immigration to America. She thinks a lot, has many opinions and wants to know about everything. " The individual, we know, is a creature unknown to the statistician, whereas I undertook to give the personal view of everything. So I am bound to unravel, as well as I can, the tangle of events, outer and inner, which made up the first breathless years of my American life."

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“That subject my father had writteb about repeatedly, as comprising his chief hope for us children, the rasende of American opportunity, the treasure that no thief could touch, not even misfortune or poverty”

The main character was happily surprised that America could offer Them all those free things, and freedom. Such as light, music and baths.

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it’s filled with opportunities such as Free light and an Education, that also was Free.

“This incident impressed me more than anything I had heard in advance of the Freedom of Education in America. It was concrete proof - Almost the thing itself. One had to experience it to understand it.”

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It is a first person narrator, all things are described from the narrators perspective.

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Anna H, Liva, Alberte og Sara

There was a lot of new things to learn and try out, for the immigrants.

"He attempted to introduce is to a queer, slippery kind of fruit which he called "banana", but had to give it up for the time being".

The immigrants had better conditions than they were used to, for example light in the streets.

"So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns".

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The main character was a child of a man who came to America before him. The main character came with his mom and siblings.

"During his three years of probation, my father had made a number of false starts in business."

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It´s from the narrators perspective, and in 1-person.

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The America is the place for Them and how free it is, that there new things that Russia dosen’t have and is a place with more opportunities. The girl were reading about is saying :

‘’I looket up to the topmost Windows, and My eyes were filled with the may blue of an American sky’’

And makes American sound like an alien place and how the structures and building are big and beautiful but also more different than Russia and the accessories are made out of other materials in America ‘’ American chairs and pans that they shone glorious in our eyes’’

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Its a I-person. the point of view of an immegrant. who was new to the american culture.

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1. Arrival in America

2. The American experience

3. freesh start in an foreign land

4. American landscape

5. different perspectives

6. the American Dreamsss!

7. New challanges

8. the free to do anything

9. new year new me

10. everthing is new for me!

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“That subject my father had written about repeatedly, as comprising his chief hope for u’s children, the essence of American oportunity, the treasure that no thief could touch, not even misfortune or poverty”

The main character was happily surprised that, America could offer Them alle those free stuff, and freedom, such as Education, light and Music.

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The story is about a young girl from, Mother Russia

And has arrived to America with her 3 other siblings and Mother and Father, she sounds like an optimistic kid with lots of hopes about America how she experienced it with some challenges and how it both impacted her and her family

Already from the start of the text she says ‘’ Having made a good time across the Ocean, i am able to proceed no Les rapidly on Terra firma’’

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"My Polotzk I knew well before I began to judge it and experiment with it"

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She is grateful

“(…) I should still have remembered Them with gratitude. (…) To my mother in her perplexity over the cookstove, the woman who showed her how to male the fire was an Angel of delioverence.”

She is hopeful and excited

“As we mover alting in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumintion of the streets. (…) Light was free; the streets were as Bright as a synogogue on a holy day. Music was free; We had been seranaded, to our gaping delight, by a brass band of many pieces, soon after our installation on union place”

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The Old World is their native country. There is a huge differencefrom where they come from to the new world they arrive in. The old world was harsh and not as free. "in our days of affluence in russia we had been accustomed to upholstered parlors, embroidered linen silver spoons and candlesticks, goblets of gold, kitchen shelves shining with copper and brass. we had featherbeds heaped halfway to the ceiling; we had clothes presses dusky with velvet and silk and fine woollen."

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the narrator and her family, were very surprised and happy about the possibilities they saw in the us. the chapter we read showed clearly how they were a part of the immigrants who had an idea of the american dream

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the new world is decribed "bewilderingly strange, unimaginably complex, delightfully unexplored"

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The text is narrated by a person who has experienced the truth themselves, about how they came to a whole new world (America). It's the narrator herself.

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she is very hopeful and was very happy to. be in america

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It’s a frist person narrator and she is a Russian Girl probably around the age 15 to 20.

Her point of View is how immigrants Saw America, but While she Does this she also explores other perspectives such as how a sophisticateded man saw the West end of WallStreet

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The story is told by the narrator herself. so she have exprinced all that, herself

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The promised land, is told by a first person narrator, that describes everything from their point of view.

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h) What does Mary’s father try to introduce to the family?

He tryed to intruduce bananas to the family, but they did not like it.

j) Who offered to help them to go to the school?

A girl in the naborhood,

a) How does she describe America?

more developed, with more education and lights in the streets (not hand held)

g) “I did not hesitate in my first steps in America.” Comment on Mary’s words.

she had been looking forward to the experience, and knew what she would leave behind. "No time to hesitate"

c) Where was the "bad" part of Boston?

"The west and north ends are the wrong ends of that city". Its the slum of boston. u had to be seen as a worthfull citycent to get out.

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a) Mary describes America as a more “modern” place that is more ahead of time than her Home country. In America they have free light and Education which is new to her.

e) greenhorns is a Word they use for the People’s who are new and experienced ind their area. For example Mary who is new in America School.

f) Marys father doesnt want Them to be called greenhorns because the Word is uset to “seggregate” Them from others. Because they are immigrants who are new to America.

g) sige Disney want to hesitate as sige finally stepped into America. Har had been looking forward to arriving to America and therefor sej Disney want to waste any time there.

h) her father tries to introduce the family to new American food. He tries to g’et Them to eat bandana which they haven’t tried begore but they dont like it.