on my way (Yu Chen)

From this article, we can know and feel another real American through the alone journey. The writer was intended to visit his friend who was in a reform school. Though he didn’t visit his friend because of same reason, it doesn’t matter. Because he feel a very different America, compared with Boston.
He chose bus as his main transportation, because bus can represent poor people’s daily life, instead of trains or cars. On his road, he saw the discrimination to African-American and he also saw such poverty which he had never seen. Finally, he even started doubting that if he traveled the same country. He said that America looked familiar, smaller. It means that the America he used to live in is not the whole and real America. Paying attention to both: black and white, the poor and the rich can make you feel this is the real America.
In my own view, real America is a society with diversity. Not only can should we see the Big Apple (New York), but also should notice the poverty, the whole America, not a half.