1. early years in Italy. poverty. superstition. The vampire.
    
2. arriving to USA. No statue of liberty. straight to work. forests. the gang's members.
    
3. p. 68. we didn't think abt learning english. LANGUAGE
    
4. 4 years monotonous and nothing happens (71). all the places where they work.
    
5. 74; new york: like a dog watching sunset. shady side 76. i was happy when i was ignorant.
    
6. 78 prostitutes
    
7. 81. fear of going alone. they stick together
    
8. Mott street: wallet story
    
9. there are negroes in the south
    
10. west virginia (99--)
     
11. 103 commissary system -- ferocious negroes
     
12. 104 all this in free america
     
13. 106 accident  --- something had grown in me. like a drug addiction.
     
14. wheelbarrow
     
15. 118 foremen carry guns
     
16. resigned to be a dago 126
     
17. 128 by accident my life took a strange turn. Spanish then english
     
18. bowery theather 130 cannot write in italian
     
19. 134 noticed bcs speaks english
     
20. 137 sheepshaed bay  aida
     
21. mandolin
     
22. 145 a laborer could never rise
     
23. 148  new york now has meaning
     
24. 156 the lesson of america: i had faith in myself
     
25. the letter

EARLY IMMIGRANTS  FROM ITALY DID NOT THINK THEY WERE IMMIGRATING. THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO WORK IN A VERY FAR AWAY PLACE. THEY DIDN'T THINK OF THEMSELVES AS IMMIGRANTS.

NOR DID THEY HAVE A DREAM. THEY WERE RUNNING AWAY FROM A NIGHTMARE AND TO BE AWay FROM A NIGHTMARE WAS ENOUGH.

MANY OF THEM FOUND ANOTHER NIGHTMARE, SAME TROUBLES AND ON TOP, ALIENATION, AWAY FROM FAMILIAR FACES, PLACES. THESE WERE NOT PEOPLE WHO TRAVELED MUCH IN LIFE. THEY WERE HEARTBROKEN, DEPRESSED, DESPONDENT.

PASCAL SEEM TO BE SAYING THAT (SEE MICHAUD) BEING AN IMMIGRANT WAS SOME KIND OF PURGATORY. IF YOU PASSED THE TESTS, IF YOU ENDURED, IF YOU SLOWLY SHED YOUR NATIVE IDENTITY AND WENT THROUGH A PERIOD OF ASSIMILATION, THE IMMIGRANT PHASE, YOU WOULD BECOME AN AMERICAN. AND IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE, TO PROSPER THERE IS NO OTHER WAY BUT TO BECOME AMERICAN. YOU CAN'T LIVE IN TWO PLACES, IN AMERICA IN YOUR DAYLIFE AND IN ITALY IN YOUR HEART AND SOUL.

THE SWITCH OF IDENTITY IS REPRESENTED BY THE SWITCH IN LINGUISTIC CODE. LANGUAGE IS A FUNDAMENTAL DIMENSION OF IDENTITY. GOING FROM ITALIAN TO ENGLISH MEANS THAT HIS SOUL IS DIFFERENT. HIS ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT EXISTS IN THE ENGLISH DIMENSION, FOR THE ENGLISH AUDIENCE. HE HAS LEARNED HOW TO TALK TO THEM BECAUSE HE HAS BECOME ONE OF THEM.