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	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...
	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
	2. Group D---rbussiere27 By cstubbs10 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	Krussel27, that's very interesting. Do you find that her fact based point of view changes toward the end of the story? Does she become more open to ideas such as "fate?" Or does she remain rigid in her beliefs. 2 weeks ago By rbuss... In my book The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon, the main character Natasha does find some struggle in the norms. She is fact based person and relies on facts. While the other main character is more open to things. He believes they met by fate, while she thinks its just a one time coincidence. She thinks many things are relied on religion and things like that more. She finds to think of things based off of things that aren't complete facts 2 weeks ago By kruss... Llovering27, I agree, that's a really interesting sounding analysis of your book, and that aspect of our books is similar. 2 weeks ago By rbuss... view all posts
	3. Group A---tmartin27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	tmartin27: In my book Strike Zone by Mike Lupica there is a family that is from the Dominican Republic. Nick is the main character, and he plays baseball. Nick is afraid of being deported because his parents are not here legally. The only thing that is stopping the main character from pursuing what he would like to do is the fact that his family is illegal and not supposed to be in the United States. Nick's parents are also not legal citizens so they are afraid of walking or being around people and work off their kids because they are legal. Although he could be stopped at any time by an officer and could possibly be deported. He struggles to fit in because he is not supposed to be here so he has to live with the fact of knowing that none of his family is legal and so he struggles to fit in, “‘You think we’re all criminal if we look the way we do?”’(Lupica 86) 2 weeks ago By klitt... In North of Happy by Adi Alsaid, Carlos feels like he doesn’t fit in both at home in Mexico and later in the United States. In Mexico, he doesn’t fit the expectations his parents have for him because he wants to become a chef instead of following their planned path. In the U.S., he also feels out of place at first because he is new, working a job far below his status, and dealing with grief over his brother Felix. “Everything here felt temporary, like I was just passing through.” (205, Alsaid). He handles this by running away from his old life and starting over in a restaurant, where he slowly works his way up and tries to figure out who he really is. By the end of the story, this experience of not fitting in helps him grow into his own identity and make his own choices, showing that he no longer lives just to meet other people’s expectations. 3 weeks ago By rbabb... In my book Brighter than the Sun by Daniel Aleman, Sol's family doesn’t have a lot of money after her mom got diagnosed with cancer they used all of their money to help her. Once she passed away they were left with piles of bills and continuous payments for their restaurant they were currently running. Once their restaurant stopped doing well they struggled to even keep it afloat. Sol goes to school in the U.S. because she was born there, but her family was not. They pay more in the U.S. and Sol needed to help her family pay for the bills of the restaurant or they would have to sell it. Sol started working in the U.S. which means she has to live with her friend, but she feels like she doesn’t fit in with any of her friends at school because her friends don’t have any of the same problems as her, her friends don’t have to work to provide for their family, her friends have time to do their school work and hang out with their friends, but she can’t. Sol has a really hard time dealing with this, once she starts hanging out with her friends more, she then starts getting behind in her school work. A quote to show that Sol feels like she doesn’t fit in with her friends, “I daydream about the warmth of the sun on my skin, the sound of the waves, and the feeling of the wind in my hair, telling myself that maybe next time–maybe next week, maybe sometime soon–I’ll get to just be a regular girl doing regular things with her friends on a Saturday” (Aleman 75). 3 weeks ago By dgoss...
	3. Group B---jgreenwood27 By cstubbs10 4 weeks ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	jgreenwood In my book “the sun is also a star” by Nicola Yoon, the main character Natasha meets a boy in a record store named Daniel. Nataha kind of stereotypes Danial as a smart asian kid in a suit, but he ends up being a poem writing nerd that doesn’t actually want to be a smart doctor. 'Would you like to be famous and how?’ “You first’ I tell him. “I’s be a famous poet in chief.” (Yoon 90) This relates to the ted talk “sweet, difficult sounds” by I.M. desta because it is about a young girl who is new to an american school and is having a hard time talking in front of her classmates. Everyone just assumes she can’t understand English, “Can you speak English?’ Ashley asked. Nothukula stared at her. It wasn’t that she didn’t understand English.” (Desta). Nothukula can speak and understand English, but people assume she can't. 2 weeks ago By tsmit... How does judging people or getting the wrong impression set the characters up for failure in your book? 2 weeks ago By jgree... In my book, “Breathe and Count Back From Ten” by Natalia Sylvester Veronica has lived in the U.S. since before she can remember so she's never had to think much about fitting in unlike her mother and father. They push her to be perfect and do nothing wrong, but while they think it's for the best they are really taking away all her freedom and choices. Rather than her trying to fit in because of her ethnicity she has to fit in due to her hip injury; her hips are lopsided, and she just found out her parents have been keeping a huge secret from her. She finally gets her dream job but her family won’t accept it so she is forced to lie to them. Also due to the new worsening condition of her hip she has to learn when to figure out if she is actually okay or if she is just being brave for others. The job she thought she had wanted and she fought for, the place she thought would truly accept her with her scars ends up trying to cover up the part of her she's always been most self-conscious about. In the end she finally starts to live out her dream, her parents accept what she chooses and she finds out the decision she thought was going to be made for her was actually something she could finally control. Vero never really had an opportunity to assume something of someone, rather she was always the one people made assumptions about. Due to her hip people always assume she’s fragile or not capable, when in reality she is very strong willed and is capable of much more than people think, “Like admitting I've needed crutches dispels the myths we want to believe about people”(Sylvester 228). This shows how she feels towards people, because of what they all think or assume instead of thinking about how strong she is. The Ted-Talk that connects with this is, "What's missing in the American Immigrant Story” by Elizabeth Camerillo Gutierrez . This connects because it shows how people always assume how others' lives are, “And that's because for the most part, we want to see ourselves as idealists and as people who do what they believe in and pursue the things that they find the most exciting. But the reality is very few of us actually have the privilege to do that.” This shows how they assume and that those assumptions can easily be proved questionable and wrong. 3 weeks ago By mpete...
	2. Group G---zroy27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	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.In my novel somewhere that is out of control is when he gets rejected by a girl he really like but he gets supper depressed and attempts suicide and this is what they say “Burst him into intestinal confetti”. (Diaz 191) They say this because he miss judged his jump and landed in a median instead of the divider on Route 18. 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 bestfriend 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. She has a lot of cultural stress from moving to the United States. She also has alot of stress from her family. She is mostly by herself barely managing. “I dont think id realized how used to ive gotten to the heaviness in my chest and the tightness in my throat”(Aleman 163) this shows how much stress she is under that she starts to feel normal with it. 2 weeks ago By ccami... view all posts
	3. Group G---crsimpson27 (replacement) (1 viewing) By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	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 In the last part of Brighter Than the Sun, Sol feels really sad and stressed and can’t hide it anymore. She tells the truth about how she feels. People help her, and she learns she doesn’t have to be like her sister. She starts to make her own choices and feel a little better.In Brighter Than the Sun, American culture often lacks understanding of people from different backgrounds. Sol feels trapped by her family’s and society’s expectations If people were more accepting and listened, newcomers could feel supported and succeed more easily.“I didn’t know where I belonged, like no one really saw me for who I was.”(Aleman 312) she doesn't know. 2 weeks ago By ccami... The Armenian Genocide is over. Armenian Genocide survivors are scattered across the globe and and those who remain are struggling to live. After WW1 the country of Armenia was created, but it is very weak and frail. Turkish raids frequently wreck havoc among villages. Armenia joins the USSR (Soviet Republic) for safety. Americans continue raising and sending funds to help survivors, but more is needed. There is a motion to try and get a mandate for Armenia (The US would be their “protector” in a sense.) but it fails. The United States creates a stronger bond with the Turkish government, and Armenia is left to languish on their own. Turkey has covered up and censored all mention on the genocide in their country, and they refuse its acknowledgement. Genocides continued to happen after Armenia, and it seems the lessons of the 1910s were not learned. Ever since the end of the Armenian Genocide, The United States has failed to properly respond to the Genocides of History. Many individuals tried to raise help for Armenians who were suffering after the Genocide, but in the end, it was not sufficent. The government did not continue with any efforts to take any political action, and the country of Armenia was left in the dust, because the United States government pursued better relations with the nation of Turkey. (Oil investments in the Middle East could have been at stake) I believe that this can be reflected upon for modern day purposes. Many times the view of the populace is not reflected in elected officials. In the modern day, there are many who wish to create a welcoming environment for immigrants, but government stifle or strike down attempts which can make the difference between a successful and non successful immigration journeys. “At the convention Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi brought politics to a moral lens: “When the Christian women and children were wantonly given to the Turkish sword this administration refused to act, but the moment the oil magnates of the land sought a concession in the oil fields of Mosul, the administration that refused to intervene to save Christian lives went to the front with vigor and decision…Show this administration an oil well and it will show you a foreign policy.” (Balakian 372) 2 weeks ago By sgolo...
	2. Group A---klittlefield27 By cstubbs10 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	In Like a love story by Abdi Nazemian we still follow Reza , Judy and Art story . The first part finishes with Reza and Judy being a couple and Art being jealous because he also loves Reza . We also know that Reza doesn’t love Judy because he is gay and he just wants the world to accept him and be with Art . In the second part , after weeks together , Reza feels more and more bad for lying to Judy . So he finally tells her that he loves men and Art . This revelation destroys Judy and she doesn’t appear for the rest of the part 2 , the story is now focused on Reza/Art relationship . As I said Reza is gay and Persian he always feels that he doesn’t fit Reza's coming out . Reza finally comes out after breaking up with Judy and starting dating Art . He found the courage to tell them that he loves men and that he is in love with Art . Her mom cried a lot and then the whole family acted that nothing happened , only his sister was supportive because she has always known it . After that Reza felt more free and he could live life without being scared of people's judgement . “ I realize I'm a new person now, the person I've been waiting to be." 2 weeks ago By vrigo... In my book; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Oscar is an overweight and shy nerd who was born in the Dominican Republic and is looking for love in New Jersey. His sister, Lola, also has her own problems to deal with. Their mother, Belicia, grew up in the Dominican under a dictatorship, she has trauma from it and has a very strict view on her children. Oscar doesn't feel like he ever fits in, through highschool he barely talked to any girls and had few friends. "he felt his optimism wane, and before he even realized what had happened he buried himself in what amounted to the college version of what he'd majored in all throughout high school: getting no ass." (Diaz 50). 4 weeks ago By tmart... gpoulin27: If Sol's mom did not pass away, do you think she would still be facing the hardships she still is? 4 weeks ago By klitt... view all posts
	2. Group A---rbabbidge27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 1 month ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	In Like a love story by Abdi Nazemian we still follow Reza , Judy and Art story . The first part finishes with Reza and Judy being a couple and Art being jealous because he also loves Reza . We also know that Reza doesn’t love Judy because he is gay and he just wants the world to accept him and be with Art . In the second part , after weeks together , Reza feels more and more bad for lying to Judy . So he finally tells her that he loves men and Art . This revelation destroys Judy and she doesn’t appear for the rest of the part 2 , the story is now focused on Reza/Art relationship . He can’t deal with it because he is always stressed about everything . The only way for him to not think about it is to be with his boyfriend and even sometimes he focused too much about what people think . “ I want to believe we’re the only person two people in the world , and on the ice , but my eyes can’t help but dart around” 2 weeks ago By vrigo... In my book; The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao, Oscar is an overweight and shy nerd who was born in the Dominican republic and is looking for love in new jersey, his sister, Lola also has her own problems to deal with. their mother, Belicia, grew up in the Dominican under a dictatorship, she has trauma from it and has a very strict view on her children. "Did what had always saved her in the past. Was defensive and aggressive and mad overreactive." (Diaz 83). This quote shows how she was as a child dealing with living under a dictatorship, this directly reflects how she is as a mother. she is overprotective, strict, and stubborn with her expectations. Lola constantly disagreed with her mother, she deals with this by staying out late and eventually running away for a period of time. 4 weeks ago By tmart... In my book Strike Zone by Mike Lupica there is a family that is not from America. Nick is the main character, and he plays baseball. Nick has dreamed of becoming a major league baseball player his entire life. He dreams to be like his idol Michael Arroyo. He wants to be like Michael Arroyo because he is one of the best pitchers in the league at the time. Nick really enjoys watching Michael Arroyo play because he is a left handed pitcher, “Michael Arroyo was Nick’s all time favorite power pitcher.”(Lupica 26-27) This quote shows that Nick dreams of being a MLB player like his favorite pitchers. It is his dream of becoming one of the greatest pitchers to ever live but first he has to get through the fact of his family not being legal in this country and try not to get deported and sent back to his home country with his family. 4 weeks ago By klitt... view all posts
	1. Group B---iraftice27 (1 viewing) By cstubbs10 2 months ago \| Last Post: 2 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #1
	Omanson27, Your character(s) seem to be struggling with their own personal lives and needing to adapt to handle pressures put on them by family/society.. how do your characters figure out this situation and move forward? 2 weeks ago By iraft... Jgreenwood27, your character seems to be going through a rough time like mine - how does your character deal with the stress of needing to adapt to his situation so he can walk at graduation? 2 weeks ago By iraft... In my book Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian Tom Bouchard is a great student, a good soccer player, and a bad decision maker. One night he and his best friend went to the Maquoit school and wrote “you suck Maquoit” on their school rock. He gets in big trouble with the school and has to do like 100 hours of community service so he can walk at graduation. Tom is in control of his own life until his friend gets the best of him and they vandalize property, then he is forced to do community service if he will not graduate. “You’ll also have to do some community service. One hundred hours each and your graduation in the spring depends on whether you complete those hours” (Padian 37). 2 months ago By jgree... view all posts

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