1. Group C---alsmith26

In my book Girl In Translation - Jean Kwok.  Is about a 11 year old girl named Kimberly and her mom who she calls Ma who had moved from hong-kong to New York. They both don’t know how to speak and understand English as it isn’t their first language. They had to live in poverty as their apartment was described as having no heat, no furniture etc. Ma had worked in a factory while Kimberly was a student and a “sweatshop” worker in the evenings and weekends. Even though she was living in poverty and having a very busy life in school and after school she worked very hard for everything she wanted.  

In connection of alsmith26 book and my book we see that they both struggle with how they look in a new environment and how names are different and names just like Kimberly in my book, they both struggled with the way they were being treated and how they are perceived from an outsiders point of view but it turns out in the end that they both get what they want and what they strived for, a quote that shows this “i called upon any and every talent i had to become the best surgeon i could” (kwok290)  

After you book how did your character succeed in the end? 

 In Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok she has a difficult time connecting to the culture of New York. She is eleven years old and has moved to New York with her widowed mother and with the help of her Aunt Paula from Hong Kong were political tension is increasing. Both her and her mother know very little English and the Americans in New York have not shown much patience and compassion during their interactions. While shopping a clerk gives them a hard time, ““I ask got all day. You gonna buy something or not?” His tone was aggressive enough that Ma understood what he meant without translation” (Kwok 15). Kim who had learned a bit of English at school in Hong Kong would translate for her mother when needed but in this instance his rude tone was enough for them to understand.

In How Dare The Sun Rise by sandra Uwiringiyimana Sandra is not immigrated to America at this point yet, however she has moved to neighboring countries from her own after the attack that severely injured her family, however in all of this moving and constant worry and grief none of them in the family are able to acclimate to the culture of any of the countries they go to, and often times they are in their own area zoned out, Sandra said herself that they began to not question when people would randomly cry, no question of why there were tears or not, they simply tried to be there, and even when other people came to try to console them "visitors would visit the house, look at us, and simply cry"(Uwiringiyimana 91). this really put a damper on the family "fitting in" because they were very often torn with sadness and crying and didn't want to see the area around them, Sandra often questioning, if it was maybe her that did or said something wrong even, to trigger they crying and tears. 

In my book by Noah Trevor "Born a Crime", he is born and raised as a half white / half black, or modernly know as a umm... (clears throat) Light skin. In the area he was, it was actually illegal, because it meant interracial couples. Hence the title, Born A Crime. Because of this, he never actually fits in with his piers, and was taught from a young age not to bring much attention to himself for his own safety. So to answer the questions, Noah fits in by staying with his family, specifically his mom, and the source of his adversity is his mixed race, which was deemed illegal.