2. Group H - p.lizotte25

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. And this also relates to plizotte's book because both characters are struggling with the way they are treated.

in my book the characters are struggling with the way they are being treated. "Can we not talk about Samira right now? Im sort of like the mayor. A little maxed out on Somalis." this is showing how they are struggling because people are making jokes that they do not realize is making as much of a impact on them than he knows. and they do recognize they are being treated differently and they cope with it in many ways but one of them is sticking up for themselves and making the other person know that it was not okay to make those kinds of jokes and that it hurts them.

In the novel “My Father, the Panda Killer.” by (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 immigrant. 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.         The second time Phuc attempts to escape he is on another boat. And it makes it further than last time, being stopped a few times to be checked and paying off the people to continue the trip, then the ship broke down and they were stranded, being passed up multiple times by other boats. At last Phuc thinks of fishing, dives for the fish and when he comes back up the boat is gone and there is a shark playing with him. When he finds and swims back to the boat he keeps passing out and then there is a lot of commotion, when he gains consciousness he realizes everyones dead except 1 person. Later just one other gains consciousness and now it's Phuc and two others.  Phuc has but together it was pirates that killed, tortured, and robbed the people on the ship.      Jane went to Disneyland. When she gets back work is even more boring than it has been because there is no excitement except for her friend showing up and giving her coffee. The next day she was late picking up her brother and they had already called her father and she knew she was in for a world of hurt. When she was in the car she got hit multiple times and when she got home she got beat more with a stick till she physically couldn't move. Later her brother brought her soup and her stuffed panda her father won at a carnival game for her, creating the one good memory she has of him and one she cherishes most.  

 I don't really see Jane or phuc struggling with their surroundings or them recognizing they are being treated differently.  But after  Jane is done being beaten she lays down and her brother, Paul, brings her a bowl of soup and she explains that “This is the first time Paul made it for me. Usually, it's me trying to distract him from my bruises, winsing, or general bad mood. I forced myself to sit up and smile.” (Hoang 166) even though she knows her brother knows what happened she still tries to make it seem okay and that everythings alright.

In my book we are all that’s left written by Carrie Arcos, Zara has lost herself due to a bombing that happened to her, Nadja (Zara mother) and (Benny) her little brother. They all got hurt but not as much as her mother. She's in a coma at the hospital with a lot of injuries. They don't know what or when she will wake up. They are switching from P.O.V from Nadja and Zara and we get to learn more about what her mother was doing before she came to Visegrad. They show how she lived, what she did when the war was going on and what she did to survive and to get to where she was today before she lost all of her friends and family. 

While they have not come to America yet in the novel I have been wondering what they will do once they arrive. And what the challenges and what will be the struggles they deal with when going to America.

In my novel my character is struggling with being the new student in a photograph class. “Um, I don’t think I’m going to be able to keep taking this class.” (Arcos) she is struggling with being new, there was a bombing that happened to her and Zara feels like she is being looked at by everyone and they don't like her and they say things under her breath. They also give her dirty looks when she speaks or shows her pictures to the class. Zara copes with her pain in many different ways; Zara talks to her father about what they do and he makes her feel better about herself.

in my book Girl In Translation by Jean kwok. a girl named Kimberly originally from Hong Kong talks about how she moved all the way to New York when she was 11 years old. she moved with her mother who she calls Ma. Ma works in a factory so her and Kimberly can have a stable living in an apartment that isn't the best quality but it works. Kimberly struggles with "adapting" to her new environment within school, hanging out with other people in her community and being treated different because she is being classified as different. When she first got there I guess you could say that people were careful around Kimberly because she was new, but once she lived in New York for longer she started developing more friendships and she even had a relationship with a guy named Matt that she met in the factory when she was a little bit younger. 

In my novel Girl In Translation connects with zpelletier25 novel because both of our characters had grown up with struggled that they had to face because they both were new and had to deal with rude classmates, teachers that don't really help out if they don't understand what they need to do or what is being asked. 

Was there any other ways that your character had coped with the bullying?