#1 Chick Red 4---replacement A

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.

in my book the characters have already fallen into the stereotype 1 because they are fleeing the country because of bad situations and because they are illegally coming into america. another thing is people often amuse that immigrants often have that escape plane planed out for a long time and in this case they did. "When you live in a place like this, you're always planing your escape." (Sanchez 1) its not always a good thing to fit into stereotypes not all stereotype's are bad, and for the characters in this book they have no chose but to fit into that stereotype they have no chose but to legally which is what most people think immigrants do. 

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. All throughout when Kimberly acts as she did when she lived in Hong Kong she seems to get in trouble or she seems to have more issues when she doesn't try to assimilate, for example, “Filled with shame for something I didn’t at all understand, I hurried back to my seat" (Kwok 53). This is when Kimberly went to the teacher for an eraser but, she didn't know the western, English word for eraser so she called a rubber, which here a rubber is a derogatory term for a condom, and because of this she caused an unintentional interruption to the class because of the immature humor of these children, and she doesn't understand that, so the teacher thought she was purposefully disrupting the class, so he yelled at her.

In the book Strike Zone by Mike Lupica, The main character Nick is 12 years old and is a pitcher for the Blazers a baseball team in Bronx, New York. Nicks parents though came to America from the Dominican Rebublic with work Visas and made the decision to live there forever. Nick's sister Amelia has Lupus a disease that eats away from it's self. Her medical bills makes their parents have to live very tightly with money. The main problem is that Nick's parents are undocumented Immigrants and can get deported at anytime. For every immigrant it is different for how they should assimilate but for Nick its in between. Nick is actually already a citizen of the U.S because he was born there but for his parents it is different, “Nick feared ICE would tear his family apart the same way Michael nearly was”(21 Lupica). Nicks parents moved to the U.S and they do everything any other normal person does, pays taxes, works a job. Nick's admirer he famous pitcher for the Yankees Micheal, had the same fears that his dream would be ripped away from him because if his parents get deported he has to go with them. Nick has many friends and doesn't have any problems being himself and loving the game of baseball. All Nick wants to do is follow his dreams to play baseball professionally.