Which lines from the excerpt are an example of paraphrasing by the author?
Read the excerpt from Immigrantkos by Russell
Freedman
The voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it. They
were on their way to America
The great majority of immigrants landed in New York
City, at America's busiest port. They never forgot their
first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty
Edward Corsi who later became United States
Commissioner of Immigration was a ten-year-old Italian
immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907:
My first impressions of the New World wall always remain
etched in my memory, particularly that hazy October
moming when I first saw Ellis Island The steamer Flande.
fourteen days out of Naples filled to capacity with 1600
natives of bly, had weathered one of the worst storms in
our captain's memory, and glad we were both children
My mother, my stepfather, my brother Giuseppe, and
my two sisters. clustered on the foredeck...
O The steamer Florida, fourteen days out of Naples,
filled to capacity with 1600 natives of Italy...
The voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it. They
were on their way to America.
My first impressions of the New World will always
remain etched in my memory...