#1 Chick Red 4---cwhitaker24

in the book we are not from here by Jenny Torres Sanchez we learn about three teenagers and what there life is like in Guatemala we also learn that they have always had an escape plane a plane to get out of Guatemala if any thing goes south. all three of them latter find them self in bad situations, the two boys have found them self's being blackmailed by someone that might kill them. the girl finds here self  having a baby with that same man and she doesn't wont to be with him and she doesn't wont the baby. because of this they all find them self's in need of using that escape plan and fleeing from Guatemala into america which will not be an easy journey but they have to do it

the three of them have not made it to america yet but they do face challenges. unlike Americans the three of them have had an escape plan planed out for as long as they can remember “We outlined how they first took a bus to the capital, then more buses to the border of Mexico before crossing the Suchiate river.”(Sanchez 92) so that is one thing that is more difficult for the three they have always known that they might have to flee from there homes. people in america don't make it a priority to make an escape plan they never think that they might have to flee from there home. somethings that people think about every day might never cross a Americans mind 

In Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok life is seen through the eyes of Kimberly Chang, a young girl at the time, who tells the reader what it was like for her when she moved from Hong Kong to the United States with her mother back in the 1980s. Kimberly talks about the struggles she's gone through because she moved to America, like the language barrier and how because of that she does poorly in school because she doesn't understand the teacher well, how she and her mother don't have much money so they have to live in a dilapidated, cockroach and rat-infested apartment and work at a clothing factory where they get paid 1.5 cents per skirt they finished. Kim still having trouble with school decides to play hooky for the next two weeks, because of her first-day experiences,  but she knew she had to go to school eventually, and when she did it was still just as confusing to her due to her lack of English speaking skills, but she was able to decipher word problems and pass the test she received that day, but when she needed an eraser, which she called a rubber, and the teacher got upset at her not knowing what she meant and told her to go back to her seat where Kimberly meet the frizzy-haired girl that becomes her friend. Kimberly feels disconnected from everyone else in her class, she lives in her own little bubble in the classroom because she is nothing like those kids. The frizzy-haired girl is a great example of what Americans can do to help immigrants, help them with certain pronunciations, and explain the things the immigrant doesn't understand, for example, “Then the frizzy-haired girl leaned over. ‘It’s called an eraser here,’” (Kwok 53). This shows how the American, the frizzy-haired girl, helps the immigrant, Kimberly, to understand that an eraser is called an eraser in America, not a rubber.

i like the difference in are books were mine focuses on how they are getting to america and how yours talks about life after getting there