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	3. Group F---jhartley27 By jhartley27 4 weeks ago \| Last Post: 24 hours ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	In “The Tyrant’s Daughter” by J. C. Carleson, Laila’s father wasn’t a good man in public and he got killed, but had a great relationship with his family. His death caused the family to have to move to the United States. Ever since that, they’ve had to deal with the image of their father and the entire family is trying to separate themselves from him. Unfortunately, everyone is giving them a really hard time about it and are still bringing up the past. Laila is forced to deal with her father’s mistakes over and over again. laila moved to the us and left everything behind when her dad died then she moved to the us to forget and move on. 24 hours ago By jpome... My opinion is that everyone should have the right in America to have a "work permit". 3 weeks ago By jhart... Does your character ever get justice? Also what's your characters name? 3 weeks ago By jhart... view all posts
	3. Group F---ghubble27 (replacement) By cstubbs10 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 24 hours ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	In “The Tyrant’s Daughter” by J. C. Carleson, Laila’s father wasn’t a good man in public and he got killed, but had a great relationship with his family. His death caused the family to have to move to the United States. Ever since that, they’ve had to deal with the image of their father and the entire family is trying to separate themselves from him. Unfortunately, everyone is giving them a really hard time about it and are still bringing up the past. Laila is forced to deal with her father’s mistakes over and over again. in my book she she pressured by her dead dad with people always asking about it 24 hours ago By jpome... in my book a land of permanent goodbyes by Atia Abawi my character tareq doesn't face pressure like a normal person like grades or succeeding he focuses more on survival but that doesn't mean tareq isn't pressured at all. he definitely is just from different things such as war and danger puts him through constant pressure to survive, make smart decisions, and grow up faster, he also feels pressured to keep his family safe and help them, and other people like smugglers, soldiers, and even other refugees. "the invisible lines in your world hold so much power... whether you live or die can depend on which side you stand on." (Abawi 73) 1 week ago By mross... I wonder what he was saying that he forgot. 2 weeks ago By ghubb... view all posts
	3. Group F---jdixon27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 24 hours ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	In “The Tyrant’s Daughter” by J. C. Carleson, Laila’s father wasn’t a good man in public and he got killed, but had a great relationship with his family. His death caused the family to have to move to the United States. Ever since that, they’ve had to deal with the image of their father and the entire family is trying to separate themselves from him. Unfortunately, everyone is giving them a really hard time about it and are still bringing up the past. Laila is forced to deal with her father’s mistakes over and over again. in my book they start talking about her dad and asking her stuff when her dad is no longer around. 24 hours ago By jpome... That's a tough situation , in my book one of the characters pushes through hardship and tries to save his failing business but even after his effort his business failed and went bankrupt. 2 days ago By jdixo... that's an intresting scene , my book dosent face issues like that necessarily but there has been instances were my main character Jende has been "picked on" by co-workers 2 days ago By jdixo... view all posts
	2. Group C---jgustafson27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 days ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	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.My character values his self awareness and takes pride in knowing his place compared to others and often thinks hes intellectually superior just because of this. But he stops being self aware when he meets Ybon and he changes his mind set and stops listening to reason and does anything it takes to chase after her. “Shouldn't you be looking for a girlfriend? I got one. He said. She’s the girlfriend of my mind. A jealous Third wold cop boyfriend?”(Diaz 291) 2 days ago By nhata... It seems like the character Daniel from my book and the character Beli from your book have very similar lives, living with the same expectations hanaging on their shoulders. What do you predict will happen with these expectations? Will the legacy of her parents pressure and guilt her into following those expectations? Or will she forge her own path and find what she desires to pursue? 4 weeks ago By jgust... One of the main stories in Junot Díaz’s book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao gives the backstory on the lead character’s mother, Belicia “Beli” Cabral, and what her life was like growing up in the Dominican Republic under a dictatorship. She was briefly an orphan after her parents were killed but was then adopted by her aunt, who is referred to as “La Inca”, who then raised her on her own. While growing up under La Inca's care, Beli was told she would be expected to carry her parents legacy and get a job in the medical field as a surgeon like her father or a nurse like her mother. Beli doesn’t want anything to do with this and desires to go out on her own and figure out her own path. “La Inca expected Beli to be the last best hope of her decimated family, expected her to play the key role in a historical rescue mission… She wasn’t a maldita ciguapa, with her feet pointing backward in the past. Her feet pointed forward, she reminded La Inca over and over” (Díaz 81). 4 weeks ago By dodon...
	2. Group C---jsmith27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 days ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	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.My character never really struggles with language problems because he grew up in new jersey and the Dominican Republic so none of these places are new to him. “But if I’ve learned anything in my travels it’s that a person can get used to anything.”(Diaz 289) 2 days ago By nhata... In my book “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” By Julia Alvarez, the first section focuses on the girls' adult lives and their return to the Dominican Republic, while the second section looks back to when they were younger and had just moved to New York. The first part showed more of them dealing with struggles at work and in marriage. While the second shows the girls struggling to fit in socially, in this part of the book, they struggle with a lot of bullying. The Garcia girls began to lose their Native language when they moved to the United States, slowly losing who they truly were as they tried to fit in with others around them. Another type of social contract that is expected is for immigrants to provide some sort of work once they get here; these do way more harm than anything. A quote I found in my book is “He, who had paid to straighten their teeth and smooth the accent out of their English in expensive schools.” 2 weeks ago By gparl... Thanks for your response! Did Oscar ever feel like he wanted to know more about where he originally came from? 3 weeks ago By jsmit... view all posts
	2. Group E---lfortier27 By cstubbs10 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 days ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	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) 2 days ago By nhata... 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. 1 week ago By lfort... 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. 3 weeks ago By lfort... view all posts
	2. Group F---lgallagher27 By cstubbs10 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 days ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	The main character Jende is an immigrant from Cameroon , he and his family moved to Harlem NY hoping for a better life. Jende gets a job as a chauffeur for the Lehman Brothers owned by Clark Edwards. His wife Neni is a college student and is in college to become a pharmacist. Jende works through the hardships of being an immigrant family hoping to find the “American Dream” in New York. The book mentions the financial hardship a lot too. The book slightly switches focus to the owner of Lehman Brothers. We read that Clark faces massive debt and falls into a hole of always working and becomes very absent from his family and wife. Neni ends up getting offered a job in the Hampton by the Edwards family as a housekeeper. Clark's wife Cindy turns to alcohol and painkillers due to her husband's absence, Neni ends up finding Cindy in that state and realizes she needs help. Jende is currently facing an ongoing immigration case that he seems to be struggling with since his lawyer keeps charging him little fees and sending him into more financial downfall. Clark's Business the Lehman Brothers ends up going bankrupt despite his efforts. In my book there isn't "someone" that is necessarily against my main character Jende but its the situation he's in that's against him, Jende has all the legal papers he needs but still isn't fully accepted, "In America today, having documents is not enough." (Mbue 307) The real antagonist is the system itself and not a person. 2 days ago By jdixo... In my Black Enough edited by Ibi Zoboi the story Half A Moon by Renee Watson. Similar to your character mine is affected by decisions made by a higher authority in which she has no say in. Raven is put into an uncomfortable situation after being placed in the same cabin as her half sister. "You will be in Cabin Three with Natasha and the Blue Campers." (Watson 6) This shows her being placed into the same cabin. 1 month ago By lgall... in my book a land of permanent goodbyes by Atia Abawi I wouldnt say there is a bully but in a way there is and it would be Syria there country "it was the decisions made by those in their country and those outside Syria that brought them to this night"( pg 9) 1 month ago By mross... view all posts
	2. Group F---mrossignol27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 days ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	The main character Jende is an immigrant from Cameroon , he and his family moved to Harlem NY hoping for a better life. Jende gets a job as a chauffeur for the Lehman Brothers owned by Clark Edwards. His wife Neni is a college student and is in college to become a pharmacist. Jende works through the hardships of being an immigrant family hoping to find the “American Dream” in New York. The book mentions the financial hardship a lot too. The book slightly switches focus to the owner of Lehman Brothers. We read that Clark faces massive debt and falls into a hole of always working and becomes very absent from his family and wife. Neni ends up getting offered a job in the Hampton by the Edwards family as a housekeeper. Clark's wife Cindy turns to alcohol and painkillers due to her husband's absence, Neni ends up finding Cindy in that state and realizes she needs help. Jende is currently facing an ongoing immigration case that he seems to be struggling with since his lawyer keeps charging him little fees and sending him into more financial downfall. Clark's Business the Lehman Brothers ends up going bankrupt despite his efforts. Clark risks his relationship with his family , risks his business and mental health by putting all his time into his failing company, a quote that shows this is, "Clark sighing and hammering on his laptop as if the keys were obstinate. He seemed to have gotten older by ten years in seven days--a deep crease suddenly evident on his forehead--and Jende couldn't stop wondering why the man was doing this too himself, why, with all the money he'd made, he couldn't pick up and go live a quote stress-free life somewhere far away from New York City."(Mbue 176) 2 days ago By jdixo... wow thats bad smoking Mary Jane I could relate tho the deporting part slightly with my book when they have to leave there country. 3 weeks ago By mross... wow Lucas that crazy how they burning the bathroom down with a blunt my book relates to the burning part with the war and stuff blowing up 3 weeks ago By mross... view all posts
	3. Group C---nhatala27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 7 days ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	iraftice I found it interesting that in your story that Laila comes from the Mid-west into America and begins to fit in because in my book I notice the opposite happens, when Oscar moves from new jersey to the Dominican Republic the quality of live is a lot worse he doesn't fit in like usual and instead of getting used to it he struggles and struggles until he eventually dies 7 days ago By nhata... dodonnell in your book you talk about how Oscars sister runs away from home because she thinks her life would change for the better. this reminds of Oscar because when he was moving to university he thought his wife would get much better and he would talk to girls and get friends but when he arrives nothing changes and he stays inside his shell, and later regrets not trying to talk to others while he was their. 7 days ago By nhata... gparlin in your book you mention that your character Yolanda felt out of place after moving, and this was interesting because my character Oscar never talks about feeling out of place in his new home after moving to the Dominican Republic, and I think this is because even when he was younger he always felt out of place because he isn't very sociable so he didn't notice a change when he moved. 7 days ago By nhata... view all posts
	2. Group G---eberube27 By cstubbs10 1 month ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	In Daniel Aleman's book,Brighter than the sun, A 16 year old Mexican girl named Soledad, is struggling to support her family after her mom died. She was born in and goes to school in the U.S, but lives in Mexico with her dad. She ends up getting a job in the U.S and living with one of her friends, only returning home on the weekends. All of this becomes so overwhelming for her that her grades start getting worse, she's liking her job less and less, and being treated badly in the U.S. She ends up making new friends and starts to feel bad for all the people back home. Soledad has had a loss to deal with, her mom died when she was young. Instead of trying to grief she gets a job to support her family. Her life is overwhelming as it is so grieving would make it worse, she tries to push it back. “‘I wish I could return to a time when I could just let someone else carry this weight for me.’” (Aleman 140). 1 week ago By crsim... Oscar is a nerdy, overweight kid from the Dominican living in New Jersey and struggles with loneliness. Oscar meets Yunior the narrator. Yunior becomes his roommate in college. Yunior tries to “fix” Oscar by trying to get him into shape but he doesn’t really change. After Oscar got rejected he got super depressed. He tried attempts suicide by jumping off a bridge but he survives and is super injured. Yunior and Lola's relationship develops but fails. He deals with death alright he just doesn’t like doctors because his brother died of leukemia.”Ever since my brother had died from leukemia”.(Diaz 167) 2 weeks ago By dbiro... In Brighter than the Sun by Daniel Aleman, the main character sol a 16 Year old girl who lives in Mexico. Her mother dies, she crosses the border and works in the US to help her family. Balancing her culture, she stays with her best friend during the week for school and work.Sol is exhausted and burnt out, she is split between 2 lives being a student and an employee.her grades and future are slipping, she's close to a breaking point. My character lost there mother before the start of the book. It doesn't show directly how they dealt with it. My character also struggles with constant pressure and stress from a job and school.“I wish I could be a child again”(Aleman 206) this shows that she is under a lot of stress. 2 weeks ago By ccami... view all posts

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