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We Are All That’s Left by Carrie Arcos is about a young woman who grew up in a village that is border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In several places, it reaches a village Visegrad where Zara and her brother are growing up. They both live with their mother and father but their mother had a hard life growing up because her village was destroyed by war. She fought hard to survive every day and she saw unpleasant things and had to do difficult things to get out. On the other hand, her father was an immigrant who had to work hard to get to where he is today but it was not as bad as Zara's mother. While they have not come to America yet in the novel I have been wondering how they will do once they arrive. They will have to flee because of the war in their home country to find safety. In the Ted talk Higgins talks about how immigrants risk their lives to get to the US so they could live a safe life. It is hard being an immigrant. She tells us that "People should not be considered valuable just because they do something of value to us". (Maeve Higgins). Like Nadja, Annie Moore was a young woman where she lived that her home was getting attacked because of a War. She had to leave her home because it was not safe for her to live there, so she had to leave and find somewhere safe to live and it was hard because she was an immigrant and had trauma. As said in We Are All That's Left “Sometimes people who go through the kind of trauma your mom experienced get affected in all kinds of ways”. What has caused your character to come to America? What barriers are they coming up against? What trauma might they be carrying with them? ------ For participants: -Never use a peer’s real name, only use their username -Respond to the question based on your book, not your personal opinion -If the question doesn’t directly apply to something that appears in your book, be clear about what you’re seeing instead
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In my book Out of Nowhere written by Maria Padian, a high school soccer player named Tom Bouchard and his cousin gets caught vandalizing a mural of their rival school. Another big part of the story is all of the Somali kids coming to his school. he goes to school in Enniston which is just a made up name for Lewiston. He befriends Saeed, a Somali who is very good at soccer. Saeed teaches Tom about the culture of the area he's from and Tom tries his best to help Saeed learn about Enniston. Tom learns about all of the war and death where he comes from and that Saeed has gone through a lot to get to Maine. Saeed mentions how many people he loved and his friends died in war. Saeed was moved to a camp by the UN, then he moved to Maine with his mother, sister and brother. This quote describes the connection with Zac's book. "Okay, my family live in Somalia, right? And in Somalia there is big, big wars and fighting. Like everyone is gets killed, and the peoples, they just ... run" (Padian). Barriers Saeed has to overcome language barriers and try to fit in with the culture. Saeed has seen people die and has been traumatized by that and has had many loved ones die.
Hi ahatala25, reading what you wrote I can agree with the fact that Tom is really learning a lot with Saeed and how he grew up in the war and what Saeed has gone through. in my book, Zara is just learning about how her mother had to leave her home because of the war and what she has seen.
In my book Out of Nowhere written by Maria Padian is about a Somali immigrant that moved to Enniston (Lewiston) that plays soccer and has to deal with the struggles of being a immigrant from Somalia. He has to overcome language barriers and trying to fit in with the other students. A big part of this book is that Tom Bouchard (the main character) was caught vandalizing a public mural at the Maquoit High School and they got in a lot of trouble for that.
Tom and his family moved to America because there was war going on in Somalia killing many of their friends and family so they decided they were going to escape and go to America.
"'There is men. With guns? Who's kill peoples outside our house. My uncle? He get killed. My friend? he get killed. I see this. With my eyes.' He looked at me. Unblinking. Wide eyes that stared frankly into my own. 'And my mother,' he continued, 'she just ran! We go out window. in back of house. And we run! Fast. And all the time we run we hear guns.'"
This quote ties into all of the questions because its showing the reason they had to leave and the barriers they had to overcome to get to America and the heavy amount of trauma they are carrying with them every single day of their lives. I think this goes best with the 3rd question because its showing how awful their home country was and how much trauma they have with them every single day.
Hi bboone, I read what you have written and what if Tom never got caught vandalizing a public mural at Maquoit High School what would have happened and what did his family do?
In the novel “My father the panda killer.” (Jamie Jo hoang) it splits the story between Jane and her father, Phuc. Jane lives with her little brother Paul, and her father Phuc who is an escaped immarant. Jane is 17 and wants to go to college but is terrified to ask her father for permission to go. She is afraid of being beaten for wanting to leave and not work at the store like her father. She is also afraid of her brother hating her for leaving like their mother. When Phuc was young he had to try to escape his hometown to get to America; but fails the first time and lands up getting an older man killed because of his arrogance. The second time he succeeds and gets out of his home town. Jane finally spills about being accepted to college at dinner when her fathers company was visiting. The lady was questioning her if she would like to go to college or if she's undecided; when this happened she couldn't take the pressure and just yelled out that she'd been accepted. Her father to her surprise just said okay and nothing more.
It's not Jane who had to come to America, it is her father Phuc who had to escape; he did this because of the war that was going on in vietnamese.
Phuc had tried to escape twice; the first time was unsuccessful and he witnessed a lot of people die, including one of his classmates. The second time was even harder for him, he has an even better understanding of how dangerous it can be. In the novel so far he hasn't really expressed any trauma he may have faced. Until his daughter (Jane), makes a connection that her father had named her brother after a passed classmate from his first attempt. “Quoc is Paul's middle name. Did my dad name him after this kid who died during his first escape?”(Hoang 94) This quote shows that Phuc is still dealing with some sort of trauma from his escape because he used his son to memorialize his past classmate.
Hi ccurran25, I can agree with the fact that Phuc had witnessed people and his classmates dying because of the war and how he hasn't expressed any trauma. in my book, Zara's mother has lost a lot of her family and friends. and never expressed any trauma to anyone.
In my book The Lines We Cross, the main character Mina is from Afghanistan, she left Afghanistan due to the dangerous conditions she was living in. The barriers that she faces is the constant Racism because she is from a different culture. and the trauma she faces isn´t directly quoted, but she does say ¨The Taliban destroyed most of my life . What wasn´t destroyed was left behind, including my father in his grave.¨ (pg 10 Abdel-Fattah)
Hi mmurphy25, I can agree that both Mina and Dalila had a traumatic life growing up. They both had to leave their homes because of the war. and they both saw friends and family die.
