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A group of anti-government outlaws attacks and burns my village in East China, killing many people including my older sister. This event as well as poverty, draught, and famine in China make me decide to leave China and immigrate to America; the land of freedom and opportunity.
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Just as we are about to Angel island, I get really sick. When our boat arrives on Angel Island, I get sent straight to a quarentine with other sick people. I finally recover after a long week and I get admitted to the country.
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After getting turned down and descriminated again and again, I finally find a job in a sweatshop. The pay is low and the work is hard, but I really need the money.
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The Chinese Exclusione Act makes it so my sister can't immigrate. She does not have a husband and she is not very skilled as a worker, so they won't let her in.
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I am walking down the street and three men come up behind me and start beating me becuase I am Asian. I am yelling for help, but everyone ignores me. Even a police officer walked by without doing anything. Finally, they stop but the damage was done. They broke my left arm and chipped two of my teeth, as well as breaking my nose and giving me a black eye. It takes me weeks to recover and after my left arm was permanetely damaged.
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After getting descriminated against and beat up, and having to live in a slum I decide to leave San Francisco. The mountains will give me a new chance to find a job and make a living in america away from the racism in the cities.
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I find a job in the mountains as a coal miner. I get less pay then the white workers and I work long hours. I am forced to work the hardest, most dangorous jobs and I am always fearing for my life. But, it is all I can find and it will have to do.
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The mine I work in collapses. I am forced to work the hardest, most dangerous jobs along with the other asians. And today one of the cramped, unsafe tunnels that we are forceed to work in collapsed trapping 8 people inside. Thankfully I wasn't trapped, but my best friend Li was killed in the accident. I am getting fed up with this. We are the exact same as the white men, but we are forced to work the most dangerous jobs for lower pay. If we were treated equal, this never would have happened.
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After working in a dangerous, cramped, dirty mine for almost a year, I decide to return to San Francisco. My sister has finally been admited into the country after 3 long years and I must go to meet her.
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I am in San Francisco again, awaiting my sisters arrival in the United States when the earthquake hits. It shakes the whole city and collapses a lot of buildings. The small tenement I am living in at the time collapses and I die.
