Immigrants

The picture shows immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and waiting to be checked in. They are all very different from each other, what shows that they are from different places.
All people, when they came to America, thought they would succeed and their life'd be perfect. But they didn't know much. Those people did not know how to speak english, they didn't know where they were going to work or even live, but all came hoping to have a better life.
They look afraid, but confident and eager to be an American citizen.
The woman with the white thing on her head looks a little mad and very frightened, because she just came from Germany, where she was born. She notices that everything is different from what she had expected. She thought they would just welcome her and let her in. Her name is Diana and she was married to a man that died of pneumonia and now she is afraidshe has the same disease and that they could send her back if she really had it.
Maybe Diana should've listened to her parents and stayed in Germany when they told her that it was totally different and she didn't know anything about her future. She had a friend coming with her, the guy waring a scarf, and he knew how to say something in English, and that was enough to help her until she found a way to learn it the right way.
Dana is also thinking about her son Jack that stayed in Germany finishing his school year, he was in the military. Jack and Dana weren't always close, they became close because he always helped her while she worked at her husband's bookstore after he died. but they had a fight whether they should or shouldn't come and he decided he was staying and he'd come when he finished a couple more school years. But Jack promised he'd try to write every week, so she felt a little bit better. She also wished her parents could come but they were old and she didn't want to change their way of life so suddenly.
She just moved here because she thought the environment was better and they could accomplish anything they wanted and Dana was determined that she was going to work at another bookstore, because she could remember her happy days while her husband was still with her. And soon she would have her own store, start writing books, and become famous all around America; that was her dream. But what if she couldn't find another job? Where would she live and how'd she pay for her living ? These questions came back to her mind every five seconds. But she knew her friend would not leave her alone, because they needed each other and they would do anything to make things better.
When she got to the front of the line, Dana and her friend will think about something else that will make them happy and start a new life, better than the last one, forgeting everything that made them sad and she'd wait to see her son again, and soon !