All of these authors have their very own perspectives on what America has to offer. This so-called “land of new beginnings” doesn’t always have the best options for foreigners. As Mukherjee says in “Two Ways to Belong in America”, “The price that the immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation.” He believes that immigrants, although successful at the beginning, change as their lives take off in this new place. They are treated unequally and struggle to fit in. Even the most successful immigrants pay this price. Crevecoeur on the other hand believes America is a place for foreigners to prosper. It’s somewhere they can go to start a new life in a society that is well more advanced than others. “We
