1. Group C---dodonell27

In my book Brighter than the Sun by Daniel Aleman Sol a 16 year old girl who's a Mexican immigrant grew up in a town called Tijuana in Mexico, had to cross the border every day to go to school as she was mixed and could. So she’d go there for school because they teach better there but then she had to move into the US with her best friend so she could get a job in the US because the US also paid better than in Tijuana so she lived in the US at her best friend's house working. She left Tijuana because her family needed the money because their restaurant was going downhill. Tania in the speech How a penny made me feel like a millionaire didn't have to work but she did have to move to the US because of the Chernobyl accident. Her family was really poor. She didn't show that she was upset and just acted like she was okay even though she was upset but she thinks it will be wonderful just like Sol even though they both knew they'd miss their family. “I don't cry when we leave home and we come to America, because I expect it to be a place filled with rare and wonderful things like bananas and chocolate and that bazooka bubble gum,”(Luna) Sol knows she's different, especially from her family as she can cross the border because she was born in the US because her mom had some complications. She deals with it by acting like the sole provider to her family and going to work and making money needed for her family. “”I have to,” I answer, hugging him back, “But I promise I’ll be back–as soon as I’ve made enough money, I’ll quit my job so I can come back for good.” I say “You can't leave me alone.””(Aleman19) 

So within the book The Sun Is Also A Star, both characters, Natasha and Daniel both know they are different from other people because mostly of their skin color and cultures as immigrants and their view on the difference between logic vs. fate. They deal with this by mostly isolating themselves, but through the book they learn to accept their differences to create a deep connection that connects their worlds.Within the book The Sun IS Also A Star, Daniel finds ways within his Korean heritage and American upbringing by being persistent at school and achieving good grades, but his true dream is poetry. Spending time and falling in love with Natashsa, he decides to chase his dream. (gpelletier27)

In my book The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon is a book about two teenagers in New York City named Natasha Kingsley and Daniel Bae. Natasha is a practical, science loving girl whose family is being deported back to Jamaica. She doesn’t believe in fate or love–she believes in facts and logic. Natasha is spending her last day in New York trying to find a way to stop her family’s transportation. Daniel is a Korean American boy whose parents immigrated from South Korea. His parents want hom to become a doctor, but Daniel secretly wants to be a poet. On the same day Natasha is trying to save her family, Daniel has an important college interview that could decide his future. Natasha and Daniel meet by chance in New York City. Daniel instantly feels a connection and believes it’s fate. Natasha doesn’t believe in love at first sight, but Daniel challenges her to spend the day together to see if he can make her fall in love with him using science. The character Natasha Kingsley knows she is different from the people around her because of the way she thinks about life and love, which is completely different from her peers. While Daniel believes in fate and destiny, Natasha has her roots in science and facts. She views the world in a practical and rational way, while the world around her relies on emotion and hope. She reflects on how she doesn’t fit in because of her personality and her situation as an undocumented immigrant who is facing deportation. Natasha deals with this by avoiding thinking with her heart, and focuses on logic to cope with her unstable circumstances, “That’s the thing that makes me wary. Where did all those feelings go? People spend their whole lives looking for love. Poems and songs and entire novels are written about it. But how can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?” (Yoon 58). This quote highlights how Nastaha separates herself from the romantic views that most people have, and doesn’t understand why people put faith into something that isn’t fact or set in stone. Instead of letting herself be tricked by something that isn’t rooted in science or fact, she tries to find practical solutions. Her reliance on logic makes her feel like she’s in control of something when she feels uncertain. Similarly, In the outside text Sweet, Difficult Sounds, Nothukula also realizes that she is different from her peers, having just moved from Zimbabwe to the United States. She is perfectly able to speak English from back home, however she feels separated from her classmates because of how she looks, her accent, and her name, “I am different from everyone here, I speak differently, I look different, my name sounds different.” (Desta). This quote shows that she is aware that she stands out. Over the course of the story, Nothukula deals with feeling different by slowly learning how to become more confident. The support from people who understand her helps her face challenges one step at a time, even if it feels hard at first.

That’s a great answer, I noticed that both our characters seem to hide their feelings from those around them and pretend they’re okay.

That’s a great answer, the way your character isolates themselves before learning to accept who they are is similar to the way my character deals with his troubles. 

That’s a great answer, my character tends to not follow traditional views and tries to be logical about most things like yours seems to do.