As an immigrant in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Ellis Island would be viewed as a bridge which offered an entry into the Promised Land, the Land of immense opportunities. Ellis Island served as the recording and processing center for the overwhelming majority of immigrants who were looking for access into United States and the island was the “essential trial for entrance into the nation”. My experience would certainly be marked by the first encounter with forces of discrimination and prejudice as the first rung of the long drawn process of Americanization would begin.