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In I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter Julia is a daughter of immigrants. Her parents don't speak English well and they need interpreters a lot of the time.“‘Hi,  Julia.  My  name  is  Dr.  Cooke,  and  this  is  our  interpreter, Tomás. He’s going to tell your parents what we’re saying” (Sánchez 212). They also don't understand a lot of things in American culture and are often confused by it.  

oh that"s very interesting. Does she speak English, and if she does, does she ever translate for her parents.  

In the novel The Sun is Also a star, there two charatcers in my book. Natasha is an imagrant, from Jamacia. Her dad had come to america to become an actor, and was in america for two years before Natasha and the rest of her family came. During that two year time period her father had gotten a DUI causing them unable to legally be in america. Natasha has met the other main character of my book, Daniel had brought Natasha to his family store, owned by Koreans, but sells products for black people. Natasha is black with a big afro, Daniels Korean father noticed her exotic hair, "My dad finds what he is looking for in the next aisle over. 'Here. Relaxer for your hair' He pulls a big black and white tub from a shelf and hands it to Natasha. 'Relaxer' he says again. 'Make your hair not so big' " (Yoon 142) In this moment Natasha is being treated differently because of the natural state of her hair. His father in the mind set of the socitey reasoning on the way black people should be wearing their hair. 

I totally agree. In my book one of the main characters is judged by the way he looks with his dark skin and dark hair because he looks like a boy who jumped the other main character. She ran from him because he looked like the boy and she got scared  

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In the novel "home is not a country" Nima and her mother moved from there homeland Arabic to the US. Her mother wanted her to live a different life, wanted Nima to have a better life. Nima on the other hand does not want to be here nor stay. Nima doesnt get along with people in her school, she has one friend named Haithman but thats her only friend. Nima gets bullied at school, people sya mean thinsg to her or about her, so she doesnt have any other firends. She wishes everyday to go back to her homeland. “He turns & shoves me & I feel the cold ,etal of the lockers against my back “Terrorist bitch” he spits in my hair” (Elhillo pg. 66). Nima knows she doesnt fit in but she still keep going everyday. she is being trated with dsirespect and she cant control it. Nima and Haithman's life is full of people who dont like them, everday they struggle to want to stay here. 

has your character said anything to anyone about the bulling? 

In the novel, Americanah, Ifemelu is a young Nigerian woman who moved to America to receive higher education and explore new opportunities. As an immigrant Ifemelu has had to navigate her new life with and without help. When she first arrived in the States, Ifemelu received help from her Aunty Uju, leading her through the basics of American life. Slowly Ifemelu began to separate from her Aunty Uju, moving into her own place and being alone yet again. Assimilation was tough for Ifemelu, sending her into a spiral of depression. Isolating herself, Ifemelu was alone in her journey again. “Alone in her apartment, she cried and cried, crumpled on her living room rug that was so rarely used it still smelled of the store. Her relationship with Curt was what she wanted, a crested wave in her life, and yet she had taken an axe and hacked at it” (Ngozi 357). Now in a deadlock, Ifemelu has no sense of what to do, wherever she goes her life crumbles at her feet. Assimilation became an obstacle that was impossible to overcome. 

This is similar to what happens to my character in my book. Phoenix finds out that his brothers trial is soon and he still wont talk to anyone and if he doesn't talk at his trial it will be hard for the judge to determine if he can stay or not and when phoenix finds out that Ari still wont talk he starts to have a panic attack and he feels like everything around him is falling apart in his life. 

In the novel "Everything Sad is Untrue" my character Khosrou but also known as "Daniel" struggles with his personal life as a kid living in Iran with war and struggles with money in their family. So in the middle of the night, Khosrou mother took him and his sister and fled to america for a better life without their father. they ended moving to Oklahoma and Daniel doesn't really fit in he is described as a smelly and funny looking kid that talks about poop to much but doesn't have trouble with anything but feels the sadness of not fitting in and being left out "so I would clench my fists and roll my eyes up to look at the ceiling as if maybe the tears would go back up down into my eyes. I would stand in one place and tremble and wish the welling tears would just dry up. But tears are like genies. They will never go back into the bottle."(Nayeri,40)