The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater is compelling nonfiction following a real story about two teenagers who faced the consequences of a life-altering crime. In 2013, an assault, considerably a hate crime, took place on a city bus in Oakland, California involving an agender teen, Sasha, and a black teenager, Richard. With ample detail, Slater describes the lifestyles of both characters, such as how Richard didn’t grow up in the best environment but was still a good person. Sasha, on the other hand, was constantly surrounded by supportive people; they were named Luke at birth, but decided it didn't apply to them correctly and identified as agender. While riding home on the bus, Sasha falls asleep and Richard, not intending the harm that occurred, lit
The novel begins when forty orphans are put on an orphan train and sent to Clifton-Morenci, two mining towns on the United States’ side of the Arizonan-Mexican border. The children had adoptive
The Distance Between Us is a memoir book written by Reyna Grande in which she depicts the harsh life in the U.S. for being an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. Back then, however, she was too young to fully understand the situations that she was in. " In chapter 20 of the section 1 of the book", she mentions that this was the third attempt for her and her family to cross the border because of her physical weakness. Due to potential risks of getting caught, her father convinced them to succeed this time by almost threatening them: he said that this will be the last time, and if they fail, they will be sent back to their house in Mexico where their mother apparently would not care their children as a parent. Through many encounters with dangerous
Breaking Through , by Francisco Jimenez, is a book, about a young boy Panchito and his family who are migrant workers living in California. The book is about how the family struggles through their life of poverty, and how they would move around California to find work in fields during each season. The first chapter of the book is about when Panchito and his family get deported back to Mexico because they were illegal and only the father had his green card, so their family was not allowed to stay in California. Throughout the chapter, the rest of the family work to obtain their green cards so that they could go back to California. Since the family was in poverty they were not able to all go back to California, so Panchito and his brother Roberto go back to California
Many people come over and just start working but reading this book make me believe that there is people out there that will take advantage of illegal immigrants. People like El diablo and John Pickle are evil people and seek out to take advantage of immigrants that are looking for work. This book has changed my view on modern day slavery. I have learned about modern day slavery in my other classes but I haven’t learned this amount of details.
Within the book, class equality was mentioned in multiple spaces, enhance experiences that were previously mentioned about the era. The experiences that Mrs.Parks faced as a Civil Rights activist still occurred to other people which elaborated that those struggles could happen to anyone. Mrs.Park could only afford public housing majority of her time during and after the Bus Boycott. Mrs.Parks and her family were considered in the “heart of the ghetto” because of the amount of fires, trash in the streets, and the low quality of the maintenance they received. This explains how living situations for people of low socioeconomic status were different from higher levels who migrated to the suburbs to get away from the problems of an urbanizing Detroit.
To most, life is pretty simple, you get a house, food, education, and a family, but have you ever thought about those who don’t have those things? Like in the book The Crossing, a boy named Manny Bustos is seeking a way to escape his life on the streets. Currently, Manny has to wrestle and beg for food and sleep in a cardboard box. He does so, because the street men could take him away and sell him. Then there’s Robert S. Locke, a sergeant who served in the Vietnam War and lost many close friends, who now drinks the night away to keep the memory of them away from him.
Tears Of A Tiger Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper an intriguing trilogy of Hazelwood High School, the book may seem boring until draper hits you with the left hook at the ending. The book is about a group of teenage boys who decide to have a little fun after their victorious basketball win. When suddenly ! crash!
Immigration involves moving from our home country to another in order to get a better life. In Esperanza rising, she goes from having everything to losing everything. How she lost everything is the death of her dad. After learning about Esperanza Rising, Esperanza faced several challenges such as the fire and her Dad's Death! The first challenge that Esperanza faced was not knowing how to do chores.
borders, a random man, who remains unknown, drove while drunk, causing him to speed up tremendously, and when Moises drove around the corner of the street, the man immediately crashes into Moises. The impact of the car did not killed the man, but as for the 24 years old Moises, he died from the impact of the car crash (Gutierrez). It wasn’t long until word got around that Moises was killed, and once people got to hear the news, everyone’s emotions became incredibly unstable they were experiencing the 7 stages of grief in full effect. Everyone was traumatized, especially for his family as everyone within the new modernized house had felt a high amount of depression in the air; it was as if the house itself was sad that his creator was killed. “Compared to Mexico’s’ catastrophes, they seemed to be cakewalks over this new catastrophe” (Gutierrez).
Both Fiction and nonfiction texts have similar and differences. The Story behind the Bus and Back of the Bus both tell the story of Rosa park . The Story Behind the bus is a fiction story and tell the facts on the story on Rosa parks . That way they named it “ The Story Behind the bus “. Back of the bus , is based on someone's point of view of what was happening to Rosa park in the bus .
Josseline is a 14 year old girl who is from El Salvador. Her mother is an illegal immigrant in the United States, were she works in Los Angeles. Working at a low wage job, it took her some couple of years to save up money to send for Josseline and her 10 year old boy. She paid a coyote about couple thousand dollars to bring them up all the way from El Salvador, through Mexico, into Arizona and out to L.A. However, troubled happened in the Southern Arizona, after they had crossed over the border, immigrants had to walk through a very rough terrain called the Tumacacori wilderness.
Mexico which is attributed as ‘The Promised Land’, ‘heaven’, or ‘utopia’ becomes Sal’s biggest disillusionment. As they are crossing the borders of the United States, they become real ‘outsiders.’ Now, they are in the territory which is not familiar to them. They aware that Mexico is the end of the road. Dean is no more a guide to the promised land on the grounds that he abondons Sal who has fever and gets into a serious dysentry.
Enrique is working at the terminal’s food service and he has secret crush on Dolores Torres, an immigrant officer. Enrique want to reach her heart, and he asks Victor for a help. Cruz promises that Navorski will never starve again. Victor is helping employees and travellers. Among them a flight attendant named Amelia Warren whom he sees time by time and becomes attracted to.
The border of hope Ramon is signalling to them: it`s time to go. Pedro and Manuel get up and walk slowly towards him. Their hearts are pounding with hope and fear. To them, this night will either mean a return to their old, hopeless life or the start of a feature in a new and unknown country . On their trip they need to cross many difficult roads, the dessert and maybe the river Rio Grande.