IMMIGRANTS IN OUR OWN LAND

How does working in roles like dishwasher and field hand initially affect the speaker?

A

The speaker is satisfied at first with these opportunities to earn money.

B

The speaker feels disappointed but believes that things will quickly get better.

C

The speaker wishes to complain about this poor treatment to the administration.

D

The speaker feels upset but understands that everyone must start at the bottom.

C . The speaker wishes to complain about this poor treatment to the administration.

Explanation:

'Immigrants In Our Own Land' by Jimmy Santiago Bacca is a poem that is written to show the experiences of people leaving their homes to get a better life and how uncertain it is.

The poem talks about how the immigrants came with great expectations about the new place but how they are used as dishwashers and field workers for a paltry pay of three cents an hour, how the administration promises them that it is only temporal and how the different races are separated.

In this poem, we learn how immigrants who sought better lives were later disappointed to find that life was not as they wished it to be in their new territory. The initial effect of working in roles like dishwasher and field hand is that;

At first, the speaker is satisfied with the opportunity to earn 3 cents an hour. When he is told by the administration that the conditions were temporary, he goes on his way without complaint.

So, initially, he was satisfied with the conditions.

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