1. Group I - fstlaurent25

The book North and Happy is a bood written by Adi Alsaid who discusses the life of Carlos Portillo. Carlos suffers a great loss when his brother dies after he was shot in Mexico. Carlos lives a very sheltered life, and attends a high class school. He is also a dual citizen, he is a citizen of Mexico, and the United States. In my book Carlos is rareley ever judged, but commonly will judge other people for not being as wealthy as him, shown in this quote. "to my suprise, the metro was not the dangeros hellscape I'd envisioned. It was actually kind of soothing" (Alsaid 9). This quote shows how he thinks that people who dont have as much money as him suffer, and are constantly trapped in bad conditions. This shows that he is very judgemental, and acts snooty towards, people who are not as fortunate as him.

My book, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is by Junot Diaz. the book is all about the upbringing of Oscar so far, and his battles with socialization and struggling to fit in and talk to girls. Oscar is a Dominican nerd who enjoys writing and reading sci-fi-fiction every chance he gets. His life is unfortunate, for he has a girl that is his best friend but he has a crush on her while she doesn’t. This girl, Ana, is in a relationship with Manny, who just got back from prison. Manny abuses Ana, but Oscar can’t do anything about it and neither can Ana. Oscar has many struggles but still tries to improve his life by doing things like getting rid of his afro, trying to lose weight, and other things. Oscar gets judged for the way he looks in my book often because he is fat and considered a nerd. “Oscar had always been a young nerd-the kind of kid who read Tom Swift, who loved comic books and watched Ultraman” (Diaz 20)

In my book The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka, many women from Japan were sold off into marriage by their parents in the early 1900s. Towards the end of the book WWII starts and many Americans judge them by their looks and out of fear think they're the enemy. They were told to suppress the urge to bow, to not speak Japanese, to trust no one and even their children would say that they were the enemy. Out of fear, Americans wanted to get rid of anyone who looked Japanese. "A Chinese laundryman was found unconscious and bleeding on the waterfront and left behind for dead. They mistook him for one of us." (89). "In the newspapers, and on the radio, we began to hear talk of mass removals. House to Hold Hearings on National Defense Migration. Governor Urges President to Evacuate All Enemy Aliens from the Coast. (93) Amerca has become afraid of the "Enemy Face" and now wants to purge anyone who is or looks like them of Japanese descent in their neighborhoods.

In my book The Field Guide To The North American Teenager by Ben Philippe. Norris Kaplin is a black French Canadian who gets moved by his mother to Austin, Texas. Norris dislikes the Texas heat and is upset about moving from Canada to Texas. he struggles after being moved to Texas and doesn't fit in with the football-loving Texans with his immense love of ice hockey. He did not get judged for the way he looked but he said this to his mother  “Did I ruin your body in some unforgivable way on my out? Was this the start of this mother-son grudge”(Philippe 44).

In the Book The Other Americans, a family is struggling to settle into the United States. The father and husband held a job, which was one of the only things they had to support themselves, but he was killed by a drunk driver. The family is having to adjust to American life, and begin to get homesick. "For me, that was the hardest thing about living in America, being so far away, it was like being orphaned." (Lalami 92). This connects with the posts text because it presents a feeling of loneliness and feeling like you have no one to help you.