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In the novel Brighter than the sun by Daniel Aleman a Mexican immigrant named Sol is having to travel back and forth between the U.S. to go to school and also work in the US because she gets paid more there than she would in her home town in Mexico Tijuana. She eventually moved into her best friend's house in the US as it was easier for her to live there compared to going back and forth on the border everyday and night. Throughout working she meets a boy named Nick and they get close; he eventually asks her out and he becomes a big love interest for Sol in these last few chapters. Sol goes back to Tijuana one weekend to find out the restaurant they've been struggling to keep open that her dad finally chose to shut it down. Sol was very upset as this was the last thing left from her mom. Sol gets asked to speak up for a boy she was kind of friends with on the border named Bruno. He got in big trouble because he fought a white boy in the lunch line for Sol because he was flirting with her but also just being a bad person. But Bruno gets called the bad guy and the other kids' parents decide to try and press charges against Bruno so Bruno's friend asks Sol to stand up for him, Sol says she can't because she's scared of public speaking and doesn't want to risk getting kicked out of school. She was working and enjoying her shift talking with Nick and her other staff members, eventually she gets called to the staff room and finds out she's getting accused of stealing a really expensive dress that's worth three of Sol's paychecks. Sol tells them she didn't steal anything but they have to put her on leave till they figure out who actually stole it. Sol then decides to go back home early since she can't work anymore and she knew she had to tell her dad. Sol got home back in Tijuana and told her dad and grandma the three of them knew they needed Sol to have this job without it, how would they pay the bills, debt, and get food on the table? Sol decides that she needs to find another job and fast. In the ted talk Sweet, Difficult Sounds by I.M. Desta is about a girl named Nothukula who had moved to the United States and had to start in a new school. She had only really talked to the teacher, no students, she hadn't made any friends, really just talking to the teacher she had trouble speaking English. In English class with her favorite teacher they had to pick a poem and read it out aloud to the class but she had bad stage fright. She was really scared to present. She also tended to try and say phrases to sound American so she could be like others around her to make others like her, “She’d use the word “like” a lot, like Ashely did, and try her best to sound American.”(Desta) Sol in the novel Brighter than the Sun toned herself down around Ari's friends because she was nervous they wouldn't like her and she really wanted her to like her so she just stayed quiet around them, “but I’m suddenly finding it difficult to remember why I used to be intimidated by Ari’s friends. I’m having a hard time understanding why I’ve been so quiet around them, when they're so easy to talk to.“(Aleman165) These relate most because they both are toning themselves down and trying to seem like others around them so they can fit in. What’s a hard decision your main character(s) has had to make? And what's the impact of this decision?

By cstubbs10 4 months ago
In conclusion, my book Brighter than the sun by Daniel Aleman is about setting boundaries about protecting yourself first then protecting your family. Sol doesn't really get that as she's constantly putting her family's protection over hers as she feels she needs to be the best she can as she’s her family's main source of income. She deals with lots of stress and worry throughout the book constantly trying to figure out how to balance her own life and protecting her family. She feels bad for actually enjoying her time in the United States. She feels she needs to be the bigger person and try to only work she feels she has to drop out of school even though she doesn't want too she wants to go to school, graduate, and go to college to be an engineer but she feels she has too go full time to make enough money for her family’s lives to go back to how they were before her mom had died. This is why it's important to set boundaries about protecting yourself first then protecting your family.

By lfortier2... 3 months ago
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao focuses on Oscar de Leon, a very nerdy and overweight Dominican boy who struggles to find a girlfriend and loves writing and novels. When he finally falls in love after being alone for so long after he moves to the Dominican Republic. And the boyfriend of the girl that he is in love with “captain” who ends up having Oscar killed in a field because he wouldn't stop seeing her. A hard decision that my protagonist had to make was choosing to follow his love to the Dominican Republic even though his family has a horrible past there. “I never wanted to come back to Santo Domingo. But after I was let go from jail i had trouble paying back the people I owed, and my mother was sick, and so I just came back.“(Diaz 289)

By nhatala27 3 months ago
At the beginning of The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon, the book explains that everything in the universe is connected. It then introduces Daniel Bae, a Korean/American teenager living in New York City whose parents want him to become a doctor even though he really wants to be a poet. Daniel feels a lot of pressure because his older brother disappointed their parents. The story also has Natasha Kingsley, a girl who believes in science and facts instead of fate. Natasha finds out that her family is being deported to Jamaica that same day because they are undocumented immigrants. She spends the day trying to find a lawyer who might help her family stay in the United States, while Daniel is in the city for a college interview, and the beginning of the story sets up how their lives are about to meet If you chapters later Daniel and Tasha friendly meet in New York City after Daniel notices her and starts talking to her Daniel believes they're meeting could be fake well Natasha thinks it's just coincidence even though Natasha is stressed about her family situation Daniel convinces her to spend some time with him and test his idea that people can fall in love in one day their conversation begins to connect their lives in ways neither of them expected showing how different choices and moments can bring different people together Natasha's hardest decision is how to try to save her family from deportation well Daniel struggles with whether to follow his parents expectations or have his own dream of being a poet these are hard for them because it can change their Futures and it can impact both of them cuz they're both forced to face their fears and take risks “Hoping he's not going to ask to touch my hair for a bunch of dumb questions about it.”(137)This supports my answer because it shows how Natasha wants to be different for him but she doesn't want to be stereotypes and she wants to have someone that's going through the same struggles as she is

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