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Lots of immigrants including  Edith (main character) came to America and became an American through Ellis Island.

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The Statue of Liberty is one of the first things that people saw as they were arriving to New York, America. (71)

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"That gray look on her parents' face..."  (25)
This is idiom because that parents face wasn't actually gray.

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"I fixed my eyes on the floor to avoid her sharp gaze"(97) hyperbole

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"Her face mostly hidden by eyeglasses" Idiom

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"As the sky lightened, the statue grow before our eyes." This is personification because she is giving the statue a human like characteristic.

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"My eyes are glued to the window" (91) SHe is using this hyperbole because she is exaggeration of her saying she can't take her eyes off the window.

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"Frau spoke sharply,sounding just like mother" (58)

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We huddled together,arms around each other like a woven basket (12)

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"... the famous Iron Cross, trimmed in white, with the year 1914 engraved on its face. " (5) The character over exaggerates how proud her father was from winning/serving in the Great War.

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“My eyes were glued to the window…”(91). This is exaggerating how Edith was very interested in her surroundings.

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“Outside, crowds of people crept along the sidewalk, together forming what looked like a huge caterpillar.” (91)

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"At last- faintly, then louder-  I heard a thump-thump”(96). This is a description action word of what the character heard.

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"WHen the lady returned, I couldn't keep my eyes off her. She looked like a doll" (73). This is demonstrating a simile because she is comparing the woman to a doll using the word like/as.

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"We were burying my childhood." (1) A young girl is traveling with her father, mother,  and two other girls. The idiom suggest how the young girl is letting/getting rid of her childhood but she's not actually reading it.

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"It felt like I was going to the moon." (4)
As the main character in the story is explain to us how her and her family are moving to Chicago. She then compares this move to Chicago as is it were like going to the moon using the word like.

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This story is based on the author's(Fern Schumer Chapman) mother's experience. This during the time of WW2 and the Holocaust, Edith is coming to the United States by herself.