Monday, April 16, 2012

10th Blog Post

For leisure tourists and travelers, a trip to Italy is more like an escape from daily life. They seek to encounter an exotic culture and gain new experience. For immigrants, however, travelling to Italy is a journey of hope and hardships. In I was an Elephant Salesman, the narrator described travelling to Italy as a moment “when our lives will change, when we will have to use our brains, our arms, and the money that we have saved or borrowed” (15). To immigrants, Italy is a place where they may be able to change their lives and escape poverty. However, in order to create that new life they will have to abandon their family, their home and everything they are familiar with and strive through hardships they have never encountered before.

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