2. Group F--asmith26

 In my book The Grief Keeper, the main character Marisol gets separated from her whole family besides her sister and seeks asylum in the US for both her and her sister. Marisol goes through the process of getting a visa and getting to stay in the US, but she gets rejected, she struggles with keeping her and her sister in the country but finds a way to stay by being part of a experiment, there she struggles to keep going in this experiment and starts to feel she's letting her sister down. “ Are you having second thoughts?”...whats a little grief for safety?”(Villasante 74). This shows that she's struggling with the experiment and is having second thoughts but wants to keep both her and her sister safe.

In my book Out Of Nowhere by Maria Padian the main character Tom Robinson meets a refugee who is muslim. He showed up to play soccer but struggled to communicate with the coach and his teammates and he has no father, only a mother who doesn't know english. His sister has to be a translator for their family because she's the only one who speaks fluent english. She says “my mother does not know how to write her own name. But I will write for her on these lines, and she will put her mark, and that is good, I think” (Padian 18). Saeed's sister is the only way they can communicate with Americans is through her. Saeed struggles in school and with sports because of the language barrier.

In my novel “Girl In Translation” - Jean Kwok it is about an 11 year old girl who moved from Hong-Kong to New York with her mom which was a big cultural change for them as they spoke a different language, did their own things differently than others etc. Kimberly and her mom, who is called Ma in this novel, were looking around for apartments but the only ones they could find were described as no heat, no furniture, and kind of in a sketchy area. 

in this novel we do see Kimberly helping her mom out withing different parts of the novel especially in the factory that they work at. Kimberly and her mom had worked in a factory for two other people to pay back the money that they had used for medicine because Ma was sick before they moved to New York. "I was scheduled to work in the library three days a week and to get special tutoring in English on the fourth-though I had yet to figure out how I was going to fit all of this in with helping ma at the factory too." (kwok 132)

In my book Out Of Nowhere by Maria Padian, Saeed does struggle to support himself and his family. He has to balance his academics, soccer, and work to make more money to support his family. He needs to make sure that he passes high school and gets his education to get a good job or get into a good college in the future. He also is a very talented soccer player and he has the athletic potential to go pro. He also needs to spend time working to earn money for his family as his parents don't have jobs that earn a ton of money. A quote to show this is, "I’ll put my mother down as Saeed’s second emergency contact. And I'll write my doctor and dentist," (Padian 19). This quote shows how Saeed is struggling to find the support to play soccer as his parents don’t have all of the requirements to sign up.