2. Group A--MKauffman24

In my book Refugee by Alan Gratz it focuses on 3 different characters, Josef, Mahmoud, and Isabel who are all dealing with different scenarios. In my book Josef is living in Germany during the holocaust, he is a 12 year old boy and he's laying down getting ready for bed, and his house gets raided by the Nazis, Josef gets thrown on the floor next to his 6 year old sister, and his dad got arrested for practicing the Jewish law. My next character is Mahmoud. Throughout what I've read he is dealing with the Syrian government attacking their own civilians, it's gotten to the point where the civilians are fighting with other civilians and it's a constant battle. Mahmoud’s house is destroyed and after that they try to escape. My last and final character is Isabel, from what i've read she is dealing with a corrupt government after the fall of the Soviet Union. Her family and their neighbors are trying to escape by boat and go to the USA. They traded items that they couldn't bring on the boat for gasoline and they prepared to go to the USA. Josef in the second part of my book, they are escaping Germany, and then reunited with their father and they board the boat and ever since he came back to them they noticed their dad is very paranoid and he seems a lot different. My next character is Mahmoud and he's escaping from Syria, they walk to the Turkish border and they are hopping on a smugglers boat to escape and the raft is broken by rocks. My last character is Isabel, they are leaving Cuba and they face a lot of challenges trying to cross the Caribbean sea to get to Florida. Ivan, one of the kids on the boat, gets attacked by sharks and he dies on their way to Florida.

my book isnt experiencing cultural bias but my book is experiencing what refugees have to do to escape the cultural bias,
“The boat wasnt a boat. It was a raft. A black inflatable rubber dinghy with an outboard motor on the back. It looked like there was room for a dozen people in it. Thirty refugees waiting to get on.”(Gratz 141) My character Mahmoud is handling it as best he can but its life or death on the line so they are doing what they have to do to flee. What Mahmoud is actively doing is trying to flee, thats the best option for him and his family.

In my book "Your House Will Pay" by Steph Cha, it focuses on two main characters named Shawn and Grace. The book shares two P.O.V's of families. "Where are characters in your story experiencing cultural bias?" Grace has immigrant parents who are Korean. Grace's Mom shoots a customer in the back of the head for defending herself because she thought the girl, Ava Matthews was a Crip for wearing blue. "Ava wasn't a Crip," said Shawn. "But Jung-Ja Han thought she was. She died wearing Crip colors." Society is against Grace. They believe that Jung-Ja Han is in the wrong for assuming and Grace is facing all the hate on social media.

In my book Watched by Marina Budhos. Naeem is the main character, he is Musilm. He gets in lots of trouble in and out of school. He has a friend who is a bad influence on him. His parents are pretty strict and only care about his academics. Naeem deals with cultural bias I think because he always feels watched by the Americans wherever he goes. “Now I swear I see cameras everywhere – on the street poles, clicking inside cars”(Budhos 48). Naeem feels watched because he sees cameras everywhere, the cops have watchers watching the Muslim community.