My book is Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian and is about a high school kid named Tom Bouchard and he gets in trouble with his cousin. They paint the rock of their rival school and get caught by police. They both get lucky and dont get into legal trouble. Tom now has to get community service hours and has decided to help out at a place that offers homework help. He plays soccer and he befriends a lot of the Somali kids that move to his school. They struggle to learn English and he tries to help them. He works on his community service hours and helping Saeed and other immigrants. "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 96) this quote explains how Saeed goes through a lot of adversity and barriers when moving to the U.S.
In the Tedtalk What Marrying an Immigrant Taught me About Cultural Bias, Kyle married a woman named Isabelle from Brazil and they fell in love. When they moved back to the U.S they experienced many troubles trying to get her a license and green card. She deals with alot people judging her and not treating her the same. She is told to get out of line because she only had a temporary green card. She stayed calm because she was used to being treated differently because of where she is from. “It takes at least three to four years, a big investigatory process, numerous interviews, hefty fees before you’re even considered for the permanent green card. Isabelle and I have been married for more than three years and still don’t have one”. (Quinn 4:20). This quote is good because it is one of the adversities Isabelle has to go through.
What has your character gone through? Have they handled their adversities well? How similar are their barriers to the characters in my book?
