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	3. Group G---sgolob27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	“Dominican community, one of the longest, most damaging U.S. backed dictatorships in the Western Hemisphere”.(Diaz3) 1 week ago By dbiro... 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.His family moved because like many Dominicans they wanted to leave and have a better life and not be poor anymore. 1 week ago By dbiro...
	3. Group E---csimpson27 By cstubbs10 4 weeks ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	“Tu ta llorando por una muchacha?”(Diaz 14) 1 week ago By dbiro... 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.My character experience both a literal language barrier through the blending of Spanish and English because his family is from the Dominican. 1 week ago By dbiro... Thats interesting, what do you think would've happened if she never met the cat? do you think she would've adapted differently to culture? 2 weeks ago By csimp... view all posts
	3. Group G---ksmith27 By cstubbs10 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	“If he landed on Route 18 it would have been lights out forever”.(191) 1 week ago By dbiro... 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.No my character does not try to hide it he deals with more self struggles and it ends up getting to him in a bad way. 1 week ago By dbiro...
	3. Group E---gbehne27 (1 viewing) By cstubbs10 4 weeks ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	csimpson27, did your character ever realize that they are representations of other cultures, maybe just not in the open, before this occurrence? 1 week ago By gbehn... jboisvert, how did this life pivoting event change her perspective on life? 1 week ago By gbehn... swood27, how did your character get to the point of accepting the fact of who they were and embracing it? 1 week ago By gbehn... view all posts
	3. Group B---caustin27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	TSmith: What if Natasha believed in love would she have a better relationship's with people. 1 week ago By caust... caustin My character Natasha struggles with making relationships with people or getting into romantic relationships because she does not believe in love. “Well, lust fades, and then there are children to raise and bills to pay. At some point it just becomes friendships with mutual self- interests for the benefit of society and the next generation.” (yoon 82) This relates to the ted talk “sweet, difficult sounds” by I.M. desta. It is about a girl who moves to America and has a hard time speaking in front of her classmates. Due to this she has a hard time making friends and relationships. There’s a boy in her class that talks to her a lot, but she struggles to talk back. “But she never answered him, even when he offered to help her with her English after school. She smiles awkwardly and shrugged her shoulders.” (Desta) her not being responsive makes it hard for her to make relationships with people. 2 weeks ago By tsmit... mpetersen27: What if Vero never had her injury? Do you think she would have a better relationship life? 2 weeks ago By caust... view all posts
	3. Group A---amelanson27 By cstubbs10 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	was he scared when he was chased? how did that effect him? 1 week ago By amela... how did he discover he wanted to be a chef? 1 week ago By amela... how did the court trial go? 1 week ago By amela... view all posts
	3. Group C---gpelletier27 (replacement) By cstubbs10 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	The book The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon is 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. 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. As the day goes on, Natasha and Daniel spend more time together, visiting different places around the city and having deep conversations about their lives, families, and beliefs. Even though Natasha is determined to stay logical and not get emotionally attached, she slowly begins to feel something for Daniel. Daniel, on the other hand, becomes even more convinced that their meeting is not just a coincidence but something meant to happen. Natasha continues her mission to stop her family's deportation, holding onto the hope that something will change. At the same time, Daniel struggles with the pressure from his parents and begins to question whether he should follow his own dreams instead of the chosen path from his parents. Natasha finally reveals that her family is being deported that night to Daniel, and it creates tension between the two, as Daniel feels hurt that she didn’t tell him sooner, and Natasha is overwhelmed by the reality of her situation. Their time together begins to change both of them. Natasha starts to question whether love and fate could be real, while Daniel begins to confront the pressures his parents have placed on him and what he truly wants for his future. They form a strong, emotional bond. As Natasha’s deportation becomes unavoidable, the hope that things could work out starts to fade. Daniel, who has been trying to prove that love can change fate, realizes that he can’t fix everything. Despite their quick connection, they’re forced to face the reality of Natasha having to return to Jamaica with her family. At the airport, their goodbye is painful and unresolved. Both of them are changed by the experience of meeting each other. Natasha, who didn’t believe in love, had felt it for the first time. Daniel, who believed love could solve anything, learns that life is more complicated than that. After Natasha leaves, Daniel struggles to move on but eventually begins to accept what happened. He chooses to pursue writing and poetry instead of following the path that his parents had planned, showing how Natasha influenced him to be more true to himself. By the end of the book, further into the future by a few years, Natasha and Daniel meet again in New York City by chance. Nastasha isolates herself for the sake of keeping her goals of protecting her family the only thing in her mind and never lets herself deviate from that goal. In the beginning of the book, Natasha relies on being emotionally independent. She trusts in logic, science, and in herself rather than others because it makes her feel safer and helps her cope and protect her from being vulnerable, “Still. You couldn't fault her. Not really. My father had been dreaming his life away for years. He lived in those plays instead of the real world. He still does. My mother didn't have time for dreaming anymore. Neither do I.” (Yoon 208). By the end of the book, her new connection with Daniel shows her that relationships can bring meaning and joy, even if they're temporary, being open to others doesn't make her weak, and emotions are just as real and important as logic. She doesn’t benefit from being alone, it only protects her, not fulfills her. In the TedTalk "Why children of immigrants experience guilt--ans strategies to cope," Sahaj Kaur Kohli explains that when a child of an immigrant grows up with different opportunities and the ability to grow, they experience guilt because their family wasn't able to have access to said opportunities, “Many children of immigrants feel a chronic sense of guilt for letting their parents down, for not being enough…for seeming ungrateful. There's also this sense of a thriver's guilt or this guilt for growing, healing, accessing resources and opportunities that maybe our parents didn't have or our family and other parts of the world don't have access to. So many children of immigrants may have grown up being responsible for their parents as well.” (Kohli). Natasha feels responsible for protecting her family, and doesn't allow herself to reach out and connect with others for the sake of coping with her vulneralbility. 1 week ago By jgust... In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, the main character, Oscar, is often left by himself. Depending on where you are in the book, this is good or bad. Near the beginning of the book, when he’s younger, he benefits from being alone as it lets him write his novels uninterrupted, “...Nene Inca, let him be. Allowed him to sit in the back of the house as long as he wanted, didn’t insist that he should be ‘out in the world’” (Díaz 31). But later in the book when Oscar is older and left by himself, his thoughts turn dark and he tries hurting himself, “Reviewing his miserable life. Wishing he’d been born into a different body… before he could lose his courage, he threw himself down into the darkness” (Díaz 190). 2 weeks ago By dodon... In the TedTalk What’s missing from the American immigrant narrative, speaker Elizabeth Camarillo talks about being an American immigrant and how being on her own helped her and helped her family later on in life, “But being able to have that self-control is sometimes the only way that we are able to help those around us.” (Camarillo) so she wanted to tell people it is okay to make the decision to go off on your own to benefit your life and others around you. In the novel Out of Nowhere, the character Saeed is an immigrant from a country completely taken over by warfare, he travels with his family but oftentimes he is minding his business staying out of things that could get him in trouble, “‘I, uh, always play.’ He shrugged again. As if the outrageous soccer he’d just demonstrated on the field was no big deal.” (Padian 6) I like this quote a lot because it shows that Saeed is just in his own lane, not over the top even though he is outstanding and easily the best the school has ever seen at soccer. In the end he and his family get away from the discrimination in the town from Saeed being his own person. Does the character in your novel benefit from being alone? Are they often alone, or do they always have support from someone else? 3 weeks ago By cstub...
	3. Group C---tgeusz27 (replacement) By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	The book The Sun is also a Star by Nicola Yoon is 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. 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. As the day goes on, Natasha and Daniel spend more time together, visiting different places around the city and having deep conversations about their lives, families, and beliefs. Even though Natasha is determined to stay logical and not get emotionally attached, she slowly begins to feel something for Daniel. Daniel, on the other hand, becomes even more convinced that their meeting is not just a coincidence but something meant to happen. Natasha continues her mission to stop her family's deportation, holding onto the hope that something will change. At the same time, Daniel struggles with the pressure from his parents and begins to question whether he should follow his own dreams instead of the chosen path from his parents. Natasha finally reveals that her family is being deported that night to Daniel, and it creates tension between the two, as Daniel feels hurt that she didn’t tell him sooner, and Natasha is overwhelmed by the reality of her situation. Their time together begins to change both of them. Natasha starts to question whether love and fate could be real, while Daniel begins to confront the pressures his parents have placed on him and what he truly wants for his future. They form a strong, emotional bond. As Natasha’s deportation becomes unavoidable, the hope that things could work out starts to fade. Daniel, who has been trying to prove that love can change fate, realizes that he can’t fix everything. Despite their quick connection, they’re forced to face the reality of Natasha having to return to Jamaica with her family. At the airport, their goodbye is painful and unresolved. Both of them are changed by the experience of meeting each other. Natasha, who didn’t believe in love, had felt it for the first time. Daniel, who believed love could solve anything, learns that life is more complicated than that. After Natasha leaves, Daniel struggles to move on but eventually begins to accept what happened. He chooses to pursue writing and poetry instead of following the path that his parents had planned, showing how Natasha influenced him to be more true to himself. By the end of the book, further into the future by a few years, Natasha and Daniel meet again in New York City by chance. The biggest barrier for Natasha that would need to change is the rigid immigration system. For her to succeed and feel accepted into the country she's known for most of her years is that the system would need to be more flexible, humane, and willing to consider individual circumstances, “She glances up at me again but shows no sign that she recognizes me, even though I've been here every day for the last week. To her I'm just another anonymous face, another applicant, another someone who wants something from America.” (Yoon 8). The system treats people in a similar circumstance to Natasha more like numbers than individuals. The people and system do not recognize Natasha as a unique person with her own story and struggles. She's just another anonymous face. For her to succeed and feel accepted into the country she's known for most of her years is that the system would need to be more flexible, humane, and willing to consider individual circumstances. Without this pressure, she would have the chance to build a stable future in the U.S. and fully pursue her goals. In the TedTalk "What's missing from the American Immigrant narrative," Gutierrez faces the same barriers as Natasha, “--I mean, we were in America, and so as a child, this made me have these crazy, ambitious, and elaborate dreams for what my future could look like. But the ways in which the world sees immigrants, it affects more than just the narratives in which they live. It also impacts the ways laws and systems can affect communities, families and individuals. I know this firsthand, because these laws and systems, well, they broke up my family, and led my parents to return to Mexico…Despite being American citizens, we both felt defeated by what we had always known to be the land of opportunity.” (Gutierrez). She grew believing in the opportuinity of the "American Dream", but was forced to face the strict laws of immigration. 1 week ago By jgust... One of the things people could do to help people who aren’t from the country or are children of immigrants is to just try to be more accepting of those different from them, unfortunately a lot of people have a hard time with that. In Junot Díaz’s book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Oscar’s sister has a problem with being bullied earlier in her life because of her appearance, “...they called me Blacula, and the morenos, they didn’t know what to say: they just called me devil-b##ch” (Díaz 54). Some people don’t even want to try accepting others, and basic respect is what’s missing from a lot of people. That’s something that needs to change. 2 weeks ago By dodon... In Phuc Tran’s book, Sigh, Gone, he discusses the difficulty of figuring out his identity as an immigrant in a mostly American neighborhood. From questioning his name to determining where he fits in the social structure of his high school, Tran has to navigate learning who he is with an additional barrier to the average teenager, having a whole other culture as a large part of his life. As he ages, he realizes that he wants nothing to do with his Vietnamese heritage and works hard to present himself as anything but an Asain nerd stereotype. By the time he reaches middle school, his parents have been able to move into a house in a new part of town. Phuc takes this opportunity to reinvent himself into a full punk skater. No matter how hard he tries, however, people often slip back into only focusing on he’s clearly not white. Finally, as he’s getting close to graduation, he feels like he’s made a version of himself that he likes, but even when he should be having a moment of joy, it’s overshadowed. People still single him out, “With the leaden weight of gook slung around my neck, I was dragged back in my place at the familiar bottom. Back to ‘Nam. It didn’t matter that I was going to speak at graduation or going to Bard or that I was on the prom court or any of that crap…I was still, shocking even to myself, a gook no matter how hard I tried not to be.” (Tran 283) Similarly, in “Don’t feel sorry for refugees—believe in them” by Luma Mufleh, tells us, “We have seen advances in every aspect of our lives—except our humanity.” (Mufleh). As a refugee, the grandchild of a refugees, and someone who runs community programs for refugees, Mufleh is disgusted with the treatment the United States, and the world, have toward how they treat people who have been forced out of their homes. In one circumstance, a boy is jumped while playing outside of his apartment, waiting for her, and is badly injured, strictly because he was an immigrant. His family had been lucky enough to be in the .1% who get to resettle in the United States after escaping the Taliban in Pakistan. What she notes is, despite all of the targeting and ignorance she sees with refugees, she also sees the good, “Their journeys are haunting. But what I get to see every day is hope, resilience, determination, a love of life and appreciation for being able to rebuild their lives.” (Mufleh). To be continued to be treated this way, despite all of the accomplishment and innocence of a young adult trying to do their best, it really speaks to the culture that Americans have toward immigrants, especially refugees. Based on what you’ve seen in your own book, and the other Ted Talks, what is missing from the American mindset and culture to create a better environment for people coming into our country? What needs to change for these people to experience more success and acceptance? 3 weeks ago By jenni...
	2. Group D---apinard27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 1 month ago \| Last Post: 1 week ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	My character also goes through romantic emotions, such as going on dates with her “friend” Nick. She met Nick at the job, and instantly got along with him. He was the one who taught her how to do her job, and even took the fall for her when she made a mistake. She was very set on making enough money to save her family's restaurant, not love. 1 week ago By apina... Very good insight! My character is similar in the way of being accepting. Sol, my character, crosses the border everyday and meets many new people. She knows how it feels to be judged, and tries her best to make sure no one else feels that way. 1 week ago By apina... In my book "The Sun is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon, the two main characters are very different, yet both likable. The girl, Natasha she has the unique experience of having to be the only one saving their family from deportation. She found an immigration lawyer, she sets up the meetings, and helps the case. While Daniel, the boy she meets randomly on the way to a meeting, is having a meeting with the somebody from Yale, with the pressure of his parents. 2 weeks ago By kruss... view all posts
	3. Group E---astark27 By cstubbs10 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	In “Out of Nowhere” by Maria Padian, there are two main characters, Tom, who is a popular white boy from Maine, and Saeed, a Refuge from Somalia. It takes place in Maine after 9/11. The story is told from the perspective of Tom Bouchard, who is very popular in his high school and is a captain of the soccer team. Saeed is from Somalia and had to escape because of danger in his country. Everyone struggles with the change of refugees living in the town, as well as getting used to language barriers when it's hard to communicate. i personally think that uniqueness is developed, because tom becomes more unique after meeting Saeed. i also think his challenges did shape him. near the beginning of the book, tom vandalizes school property with his friend donnie and he's told he needs 100 hours of community servuce just to graduate. later in the book, he barely mentions his friend Donnie, and he becomes more of hus own person, not relying on his girlfriend or friends. "i havent seen much of Donnie. I mean, this usually happened during soccer season, but this year it really felt like he'd dropped off my radar."(Padian 193) this shows how much he's grown distant from his friends, and he is starting to become his own person. 2 weeks ago By csimp... In my book “the tyrant’s daughter” by J.C carelson, my main character, Laila, is taken from her home in the mid-west by an American CIA agent and put into the U.S under certain conditions, while in the US she experiences many new things that shape her personality a bit differently. She experiences short skirts, school dances, boys, and her mother letting her experience these things, she was born unique and she knows shes different “I could say that my mother won't allow it. In another life-time, she wouldn’t have. But here, she is newly permissive–liberated by the distance from rules from our past,perhaps.” - J.C. Carlson The tyrants daughter. these experiences of liberation shape her behavior in the later sections of the book. 2 weeks ago By iraft... Towards the end of the book, “How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents” By Julia Alvarez, the Garcia sisters childhood was shown more and how they grew up in the Dominican Republic. It shows how they had a lot of political danger that made them have to move away from their home in the U.S. When Yolanda was young, she saw a kitten, which highlights the beginning of her identity, and language struggles. In the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents, by Julia Alvarez, Yolanda’s uniqueness is shown through her challenges of where she was born, and going between the Dominican Republic and the United States. With her moving between, it makes her have to adjust to a new language and culture. She starts to feel as if she doesn't belong and struggles heavily with her identity. I think that in Yolanda’s uniqueness is developed overtime. Her environment plays a bit of a role on her uniqueness, because of her having to move so much, “ Now she knows guns are illegal” (Alvarez 197). This quote shows how at a young age, Yolanda had to learn things about guns and hiding, which definitely shaped her uniqueness and caused her to mature earlier than most kids. In the TED Talk, Why Children of Immigrants experience guilt– and strategies to cope, by Sahaj Kaur Kohli, she talks about ways to help immigrants and explains why they experience so much guilt. Since Yolanda is an immigrant when she is in the U.S., she experiences much guilt and she is forced to adapt at a young age. The TED talks show how they relate when it says, “ You know, the guilt of feeling misunderstood, the guilt of feeling like you can’t do things that you want, the guilt of feeling like you’re not enough are tied to a grief of something that you didn’t have” (3 Kohli). This quote helps explain how Yolanda and other immigrants feel the need to impress their parents and make sure they make them proud. They all fear losing their original culture while trying to fit into a different culture. 2 weeks ago By swood... view all posts

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