Summary Of Arrival By Pablo Medina

Many people have thoughts about different places and what they are going to be like. Like Pablo Medina a 12-year-old child that went to the united states and had an experience that was not as wonderful. In the memoir “Arrival: 1960” Medina came over from cube to start a fresh new life, Medina believed that life would change by moving countries. What hit him was experiences can have change on one's perspective of a bright, picturesque perception to a dark pessimism. At the beginning of the memoir Medina sees that coming to America is turning out to be an amazing piece for his life. On his first week of being in America it snowed and he and his sister went outside to play in it. When he picked up the snow and “ On closer look, I can make out the intricate crystals, small furry and short lived”(Medina 72). When Medina looks at the snowflake he sees what he hopes his future is like. Has he holds the snowflake and it melts it shows that the happiness is going to melt away, but he does not catch that and keeps moving on with his new life. Has he had fun
Medina and his family left the house one day, driving into the city. “Once over the East River, my first impression was of riding down into a canyon, much of its shadowy and forbidding where the sky, steel gray at the time, was a straight path like the street we were on” (Medina 72). His experience is becoming more gray and growing to the point where it is not what he expected to happen when he come over and how different people made this country sound. When they pulled to the school he thought it looked like a jail. When he was walking through the halls he saw a teacher grab the girl and hit her. “I, however, stared, frozen by violence in a place previous experience had deluded me into thinking ought to be quiet and genteel and orderly(Medina 73). With the action of the teacher hitting the girl it changed his whole perspective of what this new country is