Moving To America Chapter Summaries

Chapter 1 starts off with Jung Jae fleeing seoul Korea with her son from the North forces. Again in January 1951 the North came back, but she had to leave her son this time. On the way to the south on top of a train in a snowstorm she died of a heart attack. The Americans found her son Pong Suk and use him as an interpreter. After the war he came to America with a military student visa. Chapter 2 follows the Alarcon family move to America from Bolivia, but only because of their grandma Edu. Edu wants to work in the big city to earn money, she is still a teenager. She's a very good worker, and stayed living in the city. Later she moved to La Paz, the capital. Her children and grandchildren all moved to America and then Edu moved with
The national origin quota system was abolished in 1965. They told Nak’s parents in 1976, they were moving to America. They moved to Berlin, Maryland and worked at a chicken processing plant. Got a house and then bought a gas station. Later on they bought a liquor store and ran it until retirement. Chapter 4 is about Victor Alarcon, who followed his sister from Bolivia to America. In northern Virginia victor and his wife moved in with another Bolivian couple he knew back in Bolivia. Victor was shoot by an El Salvador teenage gang. In Chapter 5 Esam had come to the U.S. from Libya with his family in 1982 at the age of 15. He never liked the American high school experience on the account of his muslim conservative upbringing. He decided to do pre med after school. Chapter 6 returns to Victor after being shot. The bullet went cleanly through his shoulder. The El Salvador boys were convicted of another crime 3 days after the shooting. Then the book goes through the long and racist history of Virginia. Immigrants were moving in not realizing the struggles blacks had to face to raise the community to modern standards. Religious conflicts were ramped. Chapter 7 goes back to Esam Omeish being raised as a good muslim in Libya, but in