3. Group D--mcolby26

in my book the Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao its about a kid from the Dominican who moved to New Jersey. Throughout the book, Oscar finds himself trying to find love but fails many times. Oscar sees himself as an outsider, who dreams of becoming a writer and is more on the nerdy side of people. Oscar struggles with lack of social skills and being able to find friends. during the book, oscar doesn't seem to like moving to a new country. he often disconnects from other people and doesn't fit in with the typical American teenager. one specific moment were he shows he doesn't like the move to America, is when he starts to feel like he cant even connect with his own culture anymore, "Oscar, who had always been obsessed with the Dominican Republic, found in his new life an aching sense of exile, as though he were a stranger in his own country" (Diaz 58) this shows how Oscar really feels about moving to a new country.

In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian takes the perspective of Tom Bouchard, he is a high school senior who lives in Lewiston Maine with his family. His life is changed when his best friend Yusuf, who is a Somali-American boy, becomes involved in a controversy with a terrorist attack. As Tom experiences his own feelings of confusion and loyalty, he learns about the challenges that refugees face by being immigrants and the struggles of finding a place in a community that may not fully accept them. The novel explores the intersections of race, religion, and prejudice in the eyes of a boy in the modern world who is dealing with issues of terrorism and integration.  In my book the main character Tom hasnt moved out of his country but many other people that he interacts with have. Yusuf is talking to Tom bout how he had to leave his country and he says, “‘I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to leave everything I knew’” (Padian chapter 23). This exemplifies how he feels about having to move away from his country and how he didnt want to leave but he was forced to.

my character also didn't ask to leave everything she knew 

Out of Nowhere is about a guy named Tom who plays soccer in a small town. Some Somali people move to his town. At first, Tom doesn’t care. Then he meets a really good soccer player named Saeed and his quiet cousin Abdi. They become friends. Tom starts to see that life is hard for the Somali people. Some people are mean to them because they’re different. Tom’s old friends get mad at him for helping the Somali kids. He also likes a girl named Myla who helps refugees, and she teaches him more stuff. Bad things happen, and in the end, Saeed’s family leaves town because it’s not safe. It’s a sad ending. “‘I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to leave everything I knew’” (Padian chapter 23), this is how he feels about moving, he misses home.