#3 Chick Red 1--- ahinkley24

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 books has gone on Lihn and Bao have 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 has 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. Linh and Bao ended up getting into a fight because of their arguments with their parents and stopped talking completely. Although Linh and Bao weren’t talking at the moment she both realized how much they have grown from each other. Linh ended up painting a mural for a restaurant, and Bao got a piece of his writing published in the newspaper. Once they realize that they are good for each other and want to make everything work they decided to once and for all figure out why the families hated each other so much. In the end lying was the biggest factor for all of the issues that had occurred in both families' lives. Once the truth was out everything started getting better.

In my book, Linh and Bao both grew up in America and don't really know what it was like back in Vietnam other than through the stories that they have heard. Although they didn't personally experience the immigration, they grew up with their parents and had to deal with how they were affected by it which helped them understand it a little more. To answer your question, in my book they both had a better mind set because of the stories they grew up hearing and the traditions their parents brought back to America. They both see America as being more free and a place where you can be who you want to be and do what you want to do. This helps Linh be able to go great things with her art, along with allowing Bao to take more oppertunities when it comes to his writing. This is different from their parents, because they still see the world all the same when it comes to doing things in life. This is shown when Linh's parents didn't support her painting but once they realize that they aren't in Vietnam anymore they were come exceptable of it and allowed her to continue with it because it made her happy, even if that's something that they weren't able to experience growing up. 

in my book out of nowhere by Maria Padian the main character is not an immigrant but he is in very close contact with the Somali population in his community and gets to know them well, for some of them what they have been through helps them in America and makes it easier for them to take care of themselves. as shown in the main conflict of the third section of my book when the best player gets kicked off the team for a time he disappears and people try and look for him. "these are competent people who have survived civil war and a transatlantic migration."(Padian 250) this shows that for some people their mindset after going through what they have has made them better at surviving in a new country.

In my book Almost American Girl By Robin Ha, My Character faces the challenge of moving multiple times farther and farther away from home. Most immigrants are people who are running away from a bad Country to try and have a better life. The journey and hard work it takes to become a new person in a new Country is unbelievable. I think once they get over the part of getting here, their work isn't done. They need to try so hard to build a life, find a school, home, friends and more. They try so hard to have a better life somewhere safer and I think once they achieve it, that makes them very confident and brave. Immigrant children seem to be more mature than others their age because they need to be.