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How Is The New Colossus Alike
To compare my reading selection Holes to The New Colossus is not as easy as you think. In both they focus on the character that has a mission, In holes the boys at Camp Greenlake, a dentation camp, dig holes and their mission is to make It through their sentence, while in The New Colossus it has the statue of library with the mission of welcoming new immigrants to America. To contrast the two, in holes it is about a boy who has been famed for a crime of stealing shoes, thus getting him to the point in time where the story actually takes place is how he lived at camp. In The New Colossus It is about the stature of libraty wanting to welcome the people from everyone into

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