2. Group H--GSpier25 (Replacement B)

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 Saeed 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 GSpier25 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 are 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. Saeed needs Tom's help when trying to communicate with people at school. With Toms help Saeed can become more fluent in English and make his time in Enniston way easier. Immigrants make a big impact on the world because they bring new culture into places and bring diversity.

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. 

in my book the characters do struggle with language barriers "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" this shows that they struggle because you can tell by reading it that he is struggling to get these words out and to explain to him why they had to leave their country because of all the war and violence that was going on.

There is a social norm that immigrants get jobs as soon as they get here. this can be helpful and harmful because if they get the job it will help them but also they could get treated badly by the people they work with and the customers.

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 have anything about what Phuc assimilating into America yet but i do see when he is older he is having a way easier time than some would thing he has his own place and he owns a small store/shop  when the big family reunion happens one of the fathers brothers say to Phuc ““ey! There's the big shot liquor store owner,””...  my dad shrugs him off like he's a stranger.”(hoang 197) even the family things he's done good for himself despite what and where he came from he has still made something relatively good for himself. 

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 are neither American nor an immigrant in my novel. My character is going through social contracts.

In my novel we are being shown why Nadja left her home to go live somewhere safe so she could live a safe life so she doesn't have to look over her shoulder every day. “Keep up your studies. As soon as the war ends, I'm gone. This  place isn’t my home anymore. Sarajevo is not Sarajevo.” (Arcos 222) This answers the social contract because Nadja had to leave her home so she can be safe.