The happy family entertains him by playing fanciful instruments. At the food seller's house, the man is delighted to eat the unique new foods. The food seller and his wife hid under a sewer hole cover until it was safe, then paid somehow for a ladder and climbed a wall to reach the beach. Giant men dressed like exterminators were vacuuming tiny people up off the streets of the city. The food seller relates to the man how he and his wife escaped from their homeland. He is unfamiliar with the peculiarly shaped foods, but the seller and his son give him samples. The man arrives at his stop and goes to a food seller. She tells him about how she escaped slavery as a girl and stowed away on a train to come to the land they are in.
The man meets a woman who helps him navigate the public transit system of flying boats. The creature goes out with the man in the morning. From the windowsill, the dumb-looking but attentive creature watches the man settle in. Instead of attacking the creature as he initially intends, the man shoos it off his bed. The man finds a creature who looks like a cross between a dog and a lizard hiding in a pot. It is a small room full of unfamiliar objects. The local leads him to a woman who rents the man a room. They can't understand each other, so the man draws in his notebook the image of a bed. Many people have small creatures at their sides or on their shoulders.Ī local sees the man struggling to read his map.
All around him are inscrutable symbols and people engaging in peculiar customs. A box hanging from a spherical balloon takes the man into the city. After he passes a medical examination, the man is given his immigration papers and sent on his way. The ship reaches the harbor, and the man goes through processing along with the other immigrants. A wordless book told entirely in pictures, The Arrival follows a man as he packs a trunk of possessions, says goodbye to his wife and daughter, and travels by ship to a foreign land.
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