Winter And Spring Immigration Analysis

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Lines 612-617 What comparison does the author use to describe the family 's situation? What does the comparison suggest about what life is like for recent immigrants to the United States? The comparison the author uses is comparing the family problems to Winter and Spring by saying "Winter becomes Spring , there was a slight thaw each day. Perhaps because we huddled together like a tiny Kazakh island in the middle of the great American sea , we couldn 't allow our winter to go on and on" This means that even though it seems like the whole world is on their shoulders , and it feels like everything is coming towards them , its not gonna last long so don 't have worries. By the next week she said "things in my family were almost calm" This