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This relates very well to my novel. My two characters are now on the run because they got into some trouble back in their home country El Salvador. A gang MS-13, one of the most powerful gangs was searching for them because one of my characters Ernesto was accused of cutting down his uncle's tree and his uncle happens to be a huge part of the gang. His uncle being very furious sent the gang after him. As a result that the father of Ernesto and Raul sent them away. Ernesto was first but then Raul because they are identical twins and didn't want to get mistaken for each other. My answer to your question is yes, my characters eating habits have changed. They now eat a lot better in my opinion, they are filling their stomachs with big juicy burgers instead of just making do with the stuff on their parent's farm. "How much do you owe?" He asked them over burgers. "Fourteen thousand dollars," Raul said" (Markham 87). This quote shows the changed eating habit. They are normally used to eating small portions of rice and other crops, but now they are eating burgers.

In the book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian talks about how all these kids are coming over from  Somalia and just getting thrown into the school system Tom is one of the smarter kids in his school but he has to help these kids from getting lost he met on a kid named Saeed who is very good with soccer.  One of his friends named mike had studied what they had to deal with during Ramadan without eating or drinking the daylight for a whole month. They also had a team sleepover where they had to make accommodations for them with food like pork and they can't touch kids.  Tom was also going to ask  Saeed from breaking his fast but then he decide not to for the big game against Chamberlain. "That's when I knew I wasn't going to ask Saeed and the others guys to break their fast the next week"(Padian 199).

My character Saeed is around bad influences all the time, like Tom and Donnie, during school, but he hasn't picked up many behaviors from them. He does have a huge language barrier so a lot of things they talk about he doesn't understand. “He didn’t have the English to bridge the gap between our respective understandings of girls any more than he had the English to explain how one slaughtered a goat…” (Padian 117) Saeed is an immigrant from Somalia, and he came to America because his country was overrun by war. He meets Tom through soccer and eventually Donnie through Tom. Donnie gets Tom to do some things he really shouldn't be doing, so he ends up with a punishment of 100 hours of community service. Saeed stays away from these things. Tom meets a college girl at a class he is taking, and she helps him realize how to deal with the whole immigration situation.