2. Group E - rblackwell25

Mostly in my novel “Exit West” by Mohsin Hamid, The main characters Saeed and Nadia don't usually voice their opinions to others but sometimes they do in conversation. Do your main characters deal with specific guilt at all in your novel?

in my book Sway with Me by Syed M. Masood is a book about an Indian boy named Arsalan, he is considered weird by his peers because of how he dresses, acts, and talks, becuase if this he has a hard time making connections so He goes to an Indian match maker's daughter, Beenish, for help getting a girlfriend. She agrees but only if he dances with her in a dance competition. in my book my main character tends to keep to himself because of how he was raised, and because of how he views the world. he does learn to voice his own opinion with Beenish as they get closer. "I just meant that it'd be nice if you did accept my apology because....well,I dont know that many people and of the people I do know, you're... not the worst." (152 Masood)  

In the Book The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri is a book about a family that moves to Massachusetts from India. The mother Ashima is pregnant and tries to leave the hospital without naming him because of culture. The doctor says that can’t be done and they give him the name Gogol which is a pet name. Gogol then receives his “good name” Nikhil which is his more official name. Kids start making fun of Gogol’s name. Gogol changes his name to Nikhil. He then goes to Yale for architecture. Then his father tells him why he was named Gogol. Everyone in the family moves away from each other. The father is ill and in the hospital, and later is found out to be dead from a heart problem. Everyone moves back to Boston because of his death and Gogol becomes depressed. Gogol is depressed and is then told by his mom to go on an arranged date. Where he meets a girl he knew from past Bengali events.  Gogol is not really voice any immigration problem besides his name. His name is Russian and not normal in the US or even his culture. He hates his name so much to the point he said this “I hate the name Gogol… I've always hated it.” (101 Lahiri) to the judge as a reason to change his name legally. 

in my book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. my book is about the main character, Oscar Wao, who is known as a nerd and loves comics, but is very overweight and has no love life. what is going on in the book is Oscar's sister, Beli, is going through a lot of bad things. she doesn't know if it is a figment of her imagination, but she doesn't know if she has a daughter or a son. when "All hope was lost, but then, True Believers, like the Hand of the Ancestors themselves, a miracle." (148 Diaz)  Oscar keeps to himself about being an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, because he just wasn't raised that way and didn't go through a lot of bad things to make him outspoken. 

In my book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. Oscar keeps to himself of being an immigrant and doesn't really use it as an excuse. He does however get mistreated, he got taken into a field and beaten because he had gotten his first kiss by a retired prostitute. She was 10 years older than him, and her ex boyfriend was a gangster. He has his hench to lure him out and beat him. Lucky Oscar was ok, but he had to go back home after. Eventually after getting back home Oscar began to miss this girl and wanted to go back to see her, after all it was his first kiss. Oscar had spoken up once in this book about how people were seeing him during highschool, “If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.” (98 Diaz) Oscar had said that if you didn't grow up how he had, you have no right to judge him because you don't know what he has been through

In my novel, My character has issues with her parents especially her mom due to her mom having mental illness and locking herself in her bedroom for weeks at a time. The daughter does not typically voice how she feels and instead keeps to herself with almost everything especially her times at school. She is Chinese and everyone else is not in her school, she gets dirty looks, rude comments, and in trouble often due to immigration barriers. Along with your character, mine is also decently confident but continues to keep to herself.