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	3. Group A---vrigoischenet26 (replacement) By cstubbs10 3 weeks ago \| Last Post: 3 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #3
	In North of Happy by Adi Alsaid, Carlos doesn’t really deal with stereotypes about being from Mexico; because he is rich and lives a very privileged life, which goes against a lot of common stereotypes. Instead, the story forces more on his personal struggles and figuring out who he wants to become. When he comes to America, he does have some ideas about what life there will be like, especially thinking it will give him more freedom and independence. But as he spends more time there, he realizes that life isn’t perfect anywhere and that people in America have their own problems too, which helps him see things in a more realistic way. "I thought leaving would fix everything, like there was something better waiting for me somewhere else." (239, Alsaid) 3 weeks ago By rbabb... vrigoischenet26: 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 is nervous of running into ICE, “Nick hadn’t heard of any further ICE raids in the South Bronx, and there was no sight of the ICE Man since that night.”(Lupica 100). This quote shows that he is afraid of being deported and he fears that he can not do anything because he does not want to run into any ICE agents. Although he does not face any stereotypes, he is still very skeptical of ICE agents and is always paying attention to what is going on. 3 weeks ago By klitt... In my book Brighter than the Sun by Daniel Aleman, Sol the main character is from Tijuana, Mexico. Her family doesn’t have a lot of money after her mom got diagnosed with cancer, and they used all of their money for her bills. Then, after her mom passed away the restaurant they were currently running started going under, they had to fix the menu based on their limitation to pay for ingredients. They still couldn’t afford to keep the restaurant up so they needed more of an income. Sol was born in America. She was the only one in her family who was born there, and in America they pay more. So, Sol got a job in America and was going to school there to get a better education. She had to start living with a friend when she got a job in America. Her friends had nothing to worry about, they could go to school, hang out and do fun stuff everyday, and still have time for homework. Sol was basically forced to get a job and add more onto her plate. She had to make time for her family, her job, homework, and a good amount of sleep. She hardly ever had time to hang out with her friends. To answer your question, Sol has a stereotype for Americans, she thinks that Americans have no troubles or that they have free time to do whatever they want, unlike her. A quote to show this, “‘And I know it might seem like the rest of us hang out all the time without a care in the world…”’ (Aleman 169). 3 weeks ago By dgoss...
	2. Group F---jpomerleau26 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 1 month ago \| Last Post: 3 weeks 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 experiences a disconnect to his family when he has to drown himself in work to hopefully keep his failing business too get steady again, which makes his wife turn too addiction and Clark still ends up losing the Lehman Brothers, and goes bankrupt. A quote that shows this disconnect to Clark and his family 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) This quote shows that Clark falls into a workaholic down spiral and Jende doesn't understand why, it causes him to become distant and not apart of his family. 3 weeks ago By jdixo... lgallagher27, I have seen that most books have parent problems, but how do you think your book is going to end. 1 month ago By jpome... alemont27, sense you don't have any speration of parents what is the main problem in your book 1 month ago By jpome... view all posts
	1. Group G---dbiron27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 2 months ago \| Last Post: 3 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #1
	In my book Interior Chinatown, My character Willis, Willis’s relationships mirror his internal struggle: until he can claim his own identity and self-worth outside the roles others give him, his connections will remain shallow or performative. The novel is as much about social commentary as it is about personal growth, showing how societal constraints shape personal relationships. 3 weeks ago By zroy2... ksmith27, What I see is your character is struggling if anyone in their family has a problem it becomes their problem. My story is a little different then that. 1 month ago By dbiro... eberube27, Your response Is interesting our characters are pretty similar. My character also doesn't have many people to support him. 1 month ago By dbiro... view all posts
	1. Group E---jboisvert27 By cstubbs10 2 months ago \| Last Post: 3 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #1
	In my book, Brighter than the sun by Daniel Aleman, Sol, a 16 year old who lives in Tijuana, Mexico but crosses the U.S. Mexico border every day to attend high school in the United States so that she can one day go to college. She then takes a part time job to help support her family. However, trying to balance school, work and family responsibilities drags her down when her grades begin to drop, leading to her questioning if she can even succeed in her dreams. Sol’s family is struggling after her mother’s passing and their restaurant starts to fail, so she takes on a part time job in San Diego to help her support her family financially meaning she left her family at home and lived with her best friend and her friend’s mom during the week. She eventually becomes exhausted and overwhelmed with trying to deal with school, work including family responsibilities. Her grades begin to drop and she starts to question whether it is still possible or worth the sacrifice. ”Sol begins to feel pressure of balancing everything in her life. At one point she admits, ‘I’m so tired of trying to hold everything together.’ (Aleman 253). This quote shows how overwhelmed Sol feels as she tries to manage everything all at once by herself. 3 weeks ago By astar... So at this point in your book does Daniel become aware of the fact that she and her family are being deported by the end of the day? 4 weeks ago By jbois... what if Natasha had a support system or a companion to understand her struggles in Jamaica? 4 weeks ago By jbois... view all posts
	2. Group B---jperry26 By cstubbs10 1 month ago \| Last Post: 4 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	mpeterson27 How does she decide if she should stand up for herself vs when to do what her parents want and how does it effect her relationship with them? But I agree that Veronica’s challenges show that weird situations can come from health, family, or personal choices, rather than just moving or culture. Though I do wonder if her fighting with her sister is really the best example of how she handles uncertainty, as it seems like more stress relief than a actual coping mechanism or strategy. What if Veronica had been more open with her parents or sister from the start, would her situations have been less stressful or would that have made her feel even worse. 4 weeks ago By jperr... Caustin27 I wonder how these coping mechanism effect there long term growth and relationships. I find it interesting that each one of the charecters coping mechanisms is tied to there past/personality. I do think that Oscars way of coping is negative as it only delays and prevents his integration into the real world. What if Lola had tried Oscar’s method of retreating instead of rebelling, would she have been able to cope with her mother or would that have made her feel even more trapped? 4 weeks ago By jperr... Jgreenwood27 How does he handle the pressure from both the collage girls and his peers? I think that's a good quote because it shows how dipite the uncomfortable and embarrassing situation he chooses to make the right choice and do better. But I do think the example with the collage girl doesn't show as much growth as the other one, as its more a embarrassing but good situation rather than a bad or uncomfortable one. But that also makes me wonder how things would of turned out if he refused to paint the rock. 4 weeks ago By jperr... view all posts
	1. Group C---gparlin27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 2 months ago \| Last Post: 4 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #1
	Jsmith27, at the end of your reply, you said that Daniel would be proud of her. Did something happen between them that they're not talking? 4 weeks ago By gparl... Jgustafson27, How did their day together end? Did her family end up getting deported, or was she able to stop it? 4 weeks ago By gparl... Nhatala27, you said your character Oscar felt like he couldn't be himself or felt like he fit in. Did this feeling ever pass? Is he able to be himself without worrying about what his family or others think? 4 weeks ago By gparl... view all posts
	1. Group F---alemont27 By cstubbs10 2 months ago \| Last Post: 4 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #1
	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 the main character is Laila. Her stereotype is that she's the girl that's not from here and her dad died. So she just got put into one because she isn't from the U.S.“ I may be a child in her eyes but at least I know that the favors owed my father died when he did. There will be no one coming to our rescue.”carleson 29 4 weeks ago By jpome... Behold the dreamers starts in 2007, where we follow the character Jende Jonga, an immigrant from Cameroon. He moved to Harlem, New York to try and start a new life for him and his family. He lives with his wife Neni and son Liomi Jende does not have the proper papers to be in the US legally, so he is trying to get asylum so he can stay in the US legally. Jende gets a job offer as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards who is a financially fortunate executive. The job helps Jende support his family. Neni is in college to become a pharmacist. Jende gets stereotyped at his job, since he is from Cameroon his coworkers assume he is poor and uneducated , and Neni stereotypes America by thinking if you work hard anyone can succeed. “In america anything is possible” 1 month ago By jdixo... my character Tareq doesn't face any stereotypes but him and his family face other problems such as war and traveling through countries they aren't familiar with. 1 month ago By mross... view all posts
	1. Group F---hmcfarlane27 (Replacement A) By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 2 months ago \| Last Post: 4 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #1
	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 and her family fled to the US after their dad got killed and all they wanted to do was to be normal and not want people to single her out“Are you okay” Emmy is laughing but she looks concerned. I nod, not yet trusting my voice. In this life I have only seen such things in entirely different contexts. In my experience such frenzied swarmings mean only riots and riots mean. Carleson 87 4 weeks ago By jpome... Behold the dreamers starts in 2007, where we follow the character Jende Jonga, an immigrant from Cameroon. He moved to Harlem, New York to try and start a new life for him and his family. He lives with his wife Neni and son Liomi Jende does not have the proper papers to be in the US legally, so he is trying to get asylum so he can stay in the US legally. Jende gets a job offer as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards who is a financially fortunate executive. The job helps Jende support his family. Neni is in college to become a pharmacist. Jende has to assimilate by learning to act professional, speak English and do his job as a driver properly. Neni keeps their Cameroon transitions as much as possible like food and language. "In American you must work hard" 1 month ago By jdixo... I see him in my book also wanting to be different in my book Alemont27 he more often tried to not change himself but hide himself PG-7:"I'll tell you that at some points in my life, I wanted to be white. its not a proud feeling, but its not a feeling that comes from the shame of being brown. its a tired feeling. tired of crushing racism." 2 months ago By hmcfa... view all posts
	1. Group D ---krussell27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 2 months ago \| Last Post: 4 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #1
	Interesting! How do you predict the influence of that, and her trying to help her family for the rest of the story? 4 weeks ago By kruss... In my book Natasha also takes in some responsibilities for the family, especially for things like trying to help them stay in the U.S and have that stability. 1 month ago By kruss... In “Brighter Than the Sun” by Daniel Aleman, the main character is a young girl named Sol, who has to traverse across the border every day just to get a proper education. She attends school in San Diego, California. She is financially struggling with her family. She has to wake up early, about 5 am, to cross the border to arrive at school on time. Sol is the only person in their family who is a US citizen. This is because her mother was struggling with the pregnancy and could not go through with the pregnancy with the medical care they offer in Mexico. She moves in with her friend, Ari. Their mothers became friends years prior, because Sol and Ari were friends when they were younger, making it inevitable. Sol’s mother died a few years ago, making her take on the responsibilities of the family. She conflicts with herself, needing to get a job to help support her family financially, while needing to support them in their emotional or medical state. My character, Sol, travels across the border to attend school and work, then moves to America to participate in those activities more easily. She still needs to travel a bit for her job. Her life in Mexico was a struggle because her family always had to divvy up food equally to make it fair, and they worried about going hungry. In America, Sol doesn’t need to worry about food. “It’s only been a week since I left, but I feel like a completely different person.” (Aleman 97) 2 months ago By apina... view all posts
	2. Group E---rbelanger27 By jennifer.chick@rsu4.org 1 month ago \| Last Post: 4 weeks ago Forum Perspective Discussion #2
	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 Hi. I’ Nic by Nic Stone is a story about the author and how she often doesn't understand others perspectives and how she finally decided she wanted to travel and be able to understand other cultures and perspectives. So the summer she turned 23 she hopped on a plane to Israel and tried putting herself into other people's shoes and how other people see things differently, “It wasn't until the summer I turned twenty-three and hopped on that plane to Israel that I began to get a real grasp into other people on the role of Storey in the human experience.”(Stone) She experienced change in perspective when she was at the beach with Ari and her friends as she realized how easy they are to talk to as she had always thought she Ari’s friends were scary to talk to and she was just so nervous but her perspective on them changed during this time, ““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 there so easy to talk to.”“(Aleman165) 4 weeks ago By lfort... In my book, Out Of Nowhere, by Maria Padian, there are technically 2 main characters, but were going to focus on Saeed, the boy from Somalia. He is an extremely talented soccer player and is very important to his team. Tom, the other main character, doesn't understand Saeed too well, and it can make it awkward at times. The book shows perspectives from immigrants, and it can be fascinating to learn about some of their differences. One time that shows when Toms perspective changed is when he mentions Saeed’s talking, and how it changes how he thinks about language and about Saeed. “Sometimes he surprised me and came up with a string of English that made you think he could speak the language. Other times he faded.” (Padian 96). this quote shows how Tom could really see differences with culture and language. 4 weeks ago By csimp... Yolanda faces a lot of changes in perspective throughout the book, through learning how to stand up for herself. The book is being told in reverse chronological order, Yolanda grows up in a pretty stable home with money and nice things, but they have very strict rules when it comes to their family and culture. Their family later moves away to America, which causes them to struggle to adapt to the culture there while also trying to continue their own culture from the Dominican. Throughout my book, How the Garcia Girls lost their accents, Yolanda faces change in perspective when she starts dating an American man named Manuel. Manuel and Yolanda seem to be having a very good start to their relationship, and Yolanda sees him as a romantic guy. It is later shown that Manuel just sees her as a exotic foreign girl and doesn't even understand her culture, “ I don’t wanna. You can’t make me. This is a free country” (Alvarez 184). He would rather see her as a foreign girl instead of trying to understand who she really is. This causes her to end up breaking up with him, and learn to be happy with her own culture. Yolanda realizes that he doesn't truly care for her the way she cares for him, and that he isn't trying to learn her religion at all. This really frustrates her, and he starts to pressure into doing things she doesn't want to do, it causes her to see a different side of him which shows a different perspective. In the TED Talk, “Why children of immigrants experience guilt– and strategies to cope” by Sahaj Kaur Kohli, she talks about how immigrants feel like they don’t fit in and need to change to feel better about themselves, “You know, the guilt of feeling misunderstood, the guilt of feeling like you can’t do the things that you want, the guilt of feeling like you’re not enough are tied to grief that you didn’t have” ( Kohli 3). This quote is related to my book because it shows how the immigrant kids and Yolanda both feel a way about moving away from their home and struggle with the change. Yolanda overcomes cultural differences and learns how to stand up for herself just how Kohli shows how she can help the immigrant kids. 1 month ago By swood... view all posts

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