Brother I'M Dying

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Smith, Terra Brother I’m dying For many years foreigners have chosen to leave their current countries to migrate to another. Many reasons they’ve chosen to do so is to escape the economic problems they were having, political issues they disagreed with, continuous violence in their communities, and to reunite with their loved ones. One would believe that because they’ve chosen to flee, that they can just purchase a plane ticket and leave, but that’s not the case. Trying to make the transition from one country to another can be a very difficult task, even one that can end in disappointment. In “Brother, I’m Dying” the author Edwidge Danticat discusses some of the hardships her family had faced due to troubles they encountered in their homeland Haiti. She discusses her parent’s departure to the U.S, while she and her younger brother Bob lived with their Uncle Joseph and his wife in Bel Air. She talks about her Uncle Joseph’s experience when trying to withdraw himself from Haiti for safety reasons, and the rejection he experienced when entering the U.S. Edwidge portrayal of immigration came from experience at an early age. Having to witness her father leave for another country and her mother soon following without her has not only given Edwidge a sense of independence but has made her knowledgeable of the treatment given to immigrants from those of superiority. In order for a foreigner to leave one country to explore the next there are numerous steps taken before being considered for approval. Because of Edwidge and her brother Bob being diagnosed with an inactive strand of the tuberculosis disease, the union with their parents in the U.S was delayed for six months. Although TB has the potential to be deadly, it is a fact that TB is a worldwide disease carried in the U.S as well as in other countries, so it was unfair that they couldn’t join their parents because

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