Read the excerpt from Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman, and then answer the question. The great majority of immigrants landed in New York City, at America’s busiest port. They never forgot their first glimpse of the Statue of Liberty. Edward Corsi, who later became United States Commissioner of Immigration, was a ten-year-old Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907: My first impressions of the New World will always remain etched in my memory, particularly that hazy October morning when I first saw Ellis Island. The steamer Florida, fourteen days out of Naples, filled to capacity with 1600 natives of Italy, had weathered one of the worst storms in our captain’s memory; and glad we were, both children and grown-ups, to leave the open sea and come at last through the Narrows into the Bay . . . Giuseppe and I held tightly to Stepfather’s hands, while Liberta and Helvetia clung to Mother. Passengers all about us were crowding against the rail. Jabbered conversations, sharp cries, laughs and cheers – a steadily rising din filled the air. Mothers and fathers lifted up babies so that they too could see, off to the left, the Statue of Liberty. According to the passage, immigrants never forgot seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.
How does the quotation from Edward Corsi develop this topic?
A: It provides a firsthand experience from a primary source, who says that “a steadily rising din filled the air.”
B: It provides a firsthand experience from a primary source, who says that he “held tightly to Stepfather’s hands.”
C: It provides a firsthand experience from a primary source, who says the day will “always remain etched in my memory.”
D:It provides a firsthand experience from a primary source, who says the weather was “one of the worst storms in our captain’s memory.”