#2 Chick Red 1---replacement C

My book is A Pho Love Story by Loan Le. This book, so far, talks about the challenges two kids have with their parents. Both families are from Vietnam and have immigrated to America. This book describes the challenges that both kids face when it comes to being good enough for their parents. The characters are Linh and Bao. Bao doesn’t feel that he can be good enough for his parents but doesn’t know how to tell them how he feels, along with Linh who has struggled to fit her parent's standards when it comes to life after high school. As the book has gone on Lihn and Bao become closer, although Lihn and Bao have been fighting and arguing a lot and ended up not talking for a while. Their families have always hated each other as long as they could remember, but they are tired of being pulled apart because of them. Lihn and Bao are now trying to figure out the real reason both families don’t like each other. 

In my book, although Bao's parents have been in America they still have a strong accent and still mostly speak in Vietnamese. In the second third of my book, Bao's family restaurant has a special day when they are selling crepes just to see if they'd sell. During dinner time Bao's mother Me has to deal with an American who is racist. "What, that word not clicking for you? Do you even know English?" (Le 256). Because Me isn't super strong with her English she is getting hateful comments about it, and it makes her stand out more. This shows that even though she's been here for such a long time it can still be hard to assimilate with people because she has a hard time with her accent and because English isn't her first language. 

In "Patron Saints of nothing" Jay was an immigrant that immigrated with his family to Michigan when Jay was only 6. By Jay moving so young he did not have accents and learned the language very well. Jay still had the stereotypical foreign parents that are hard on him. Jay's parents wanted him to have everything in line in his life and have everything figured out. Jay wanted to pass up his offer to Michigan State and go to the Phillapeans and have a gap year to find out more about Jun's(Jay's cousin) death, and help stop the drug war. His parents were not okay with this, they wanted Jay to not find out about the drug war or Jun's death. This was mentally challenging for Jay because his parents isolated him, but Jay also is a very stubborn person so it did not stop him from going to the Phillapeans and clear Jun's name. 

'All right, they won't disown me. But they'll be horribly disappointed."(Ribay 124)

This is an example of how Jay feels when decision-making for his feature and how his parents are impacting him mentally. This is taking place when Jay was making his decision about going to the Philippians. For Jay this was the reality he was never thinking for himself only for his parents.

In my book “Almost american girl” by Robin Ha, My Character struggles with learning English, she feels very discouraged because she only knows half of it. All the kids in her class can read, write, talk in English and shes the only one with the struggle. American kids will mock her and take advantage. One kid calls her “ching chang chong” that is incredibly racist and hurtful. He then says “Let me teach you the american handshake.” And grabs her hand to spit in it and rubs it in. This makes Chuna very mad and feels as though she’ll never fit in quite like the american kids. Everyone looks at her differently and she wonders how she could change to make them like her. Her family member Lena dresses nice and expensive and she wishes that she could look like lena with nice silk hair, fair skin, petite body, and a nice smile.  -H Rand red 1