My Favorite Champone By Jean Daviess Okimoto Analysis

As time passes, mother gets better, but now Ruth May rapidly becomes sick and stays in bed most of the day. The family later found out she was sick of malaria because she didn’t’ take her pills to prevent catching a viruses a disease. Meanwhile, Leah begins to spend time with the Kilanga teacher, Anatole. They talk about the Congo, justice, and its independence. On the other hand, Leah starts to get good at hunting thanks to Nelson who teaches her how to use the arrow.

At lunchtime Jose approach he wanted to challenge her to a racketball game since she seems to play the approached her and starts a small conversation. “‘Hi,’” José said, sitting across the table from her. ‘How do you like our school?’ Estela swallowed, cleared her throat, drank from her milk carton until

The bullying leads to her moving to Burnside Elementary School to get a "fresh start" from the bullying. Over time, the family saw a change.

They arrive and their grandmother is very anxious for Lena to talk to their close friends grandson, Kostos. Since Lena is shy, she constantly brushes and avoids Kostos who is trying to make conversation. Later, she ends up skinny dipping in a secluded pond where Kostos finds her. Lena runs home in distress and tells her grandparents that “Kostos isn’t the nice boy they think he is”. The two pairs of grandparents start to fight over this and that’s when Lena realizes they probably think something worse happened.

Considering this, she doesn't have a strong foundation based on her future and dreams she would like to achieve. While in the other hand, for Victor and his family their migration journeys being in Quincy, Florida there where they are picking tomatoes. For Victor his family is the inspiration and they will always be his inspiration because he does not want to see them suffer. He knows what they have been through and is ready to change not just his life, but theirs as well. Victor is his little sisters’ role model and the one held responsible since his other sisters are still back in Mexico.

Annie, whom they called Momma, placed high value on education and religion, and began instructing them in both. Maya’s lifetime love of learning and literature began here as she traveled through the pages of every book she could find to read. When Maya

Sylvia feels she betrayed by her best friend because at first they hate Miss Moore and after the trip, everything has changed. However, Sylvia realizes that what Sugar say are all true. Sylvia and other children understand what Miss Moore is trying to teach them a lesson. Sylvia changes her point of

The Language Inside by Holly Thompson is an intriguing verse novel that follows a teenage girl named Emma Karas who was born in Massachusetts but had grown up in Japan. After an earthquake and a tsunami, Emma’s best friend, Madoka has to spend her time trying to clean her family’s place up while others look for her missing aunt. After a few weeks of helping Madoka, Emma finds out that her mother has breast cancer and that her family has to move to Boston for surgery. She has to pack up and move to her grandmother’s house in Massachusetts. There, she starts volunteering at Newall Center for Long-Term Care, and she meets Samnang, another volunteer who dances and is Cambodian.

After doing so and being gone for some time, the daughter realizes that she misses and loves her mother very much. However, when they meet up again, the same sort of physical fight happens. The daughter is then sent to stay with her grandmother. After more time spent apart, both parties realize their love for one another. Lola also realizes, after talking to her grandmother, that she is so much alike her mother.

Phillip Malloy is a 9th grader just starting high school and is trying to get on the track team. But when Phillip finds out he can't join the track team because of his failing English grade, he decides that he has to, “find a way to get transferred”(31 AVI). Phillip decides he needs to get out of his English teacher, Ms. Narwins, class. Believing that Ms Narwin hates him and is the reason for his bad grades. Adding on he believes this is his only way to get on the track team.

Everyday, she excels in her job of caring for the children and making a difference in the community. Due to her kindness she would always bring thoughtful gifts for the children. She doesn 't have to do the classes with the children everyday but she continues to do it like Sylvia says “school supposed to let out in the summer I heard, but she dont never let up” (Bambara 96). The lessons learned while earning her degree has lead her to becoming a positive role model in the children 's lives; nonetheless, teaching them lessons that may never learn from others. She shows her passion in the story by saying “she said, it was only her right that she take responsibility for the young ones’ education.

She puts in effort to learn her language and also allows her grandmothers culture to be vibrant in the house. In the end, the grandmother and the girl become united and break the language and culture barrier.

In her family’s homeland, Kazakhstan, an interaction between a boy and a girl is unacceptable. Due to the fact that Maya’s family isn’t accustomed to the American culture just yet, Maya’s father finds shame in the fact that his daughter would do such a thing. Upon returning home Maya’s father is quick to blame her mother for her actions. “Is this how you raise your daughter! Is this what you teach her?

Nurzhan’s father has to go to the principal’s office along with his sister Maya to translate since their father isn’t able to understand English. Maya translates the principal’s words incorrectly, because she feels empathetic towards Nurzhan. Maya felt empathetic towards Nurzhan, because she knew how hard it was to learn a new language. She also believed that Nurzhan did the right thing, by standing up for himself. Ultimately, Ossie doesn’t feel empathy towards Nurzhan.

During all this, her younger brother Raymond is badly injured in a bicycle accident. After this incident, Santiago moves with her mother to New York to find better care for Raymond. In addition, Santiago explains how her they were eleven in their family, yet their parents were not married. The history of her family was that of tension and sadness. Santiago reveals a life full of joy, sorrow, laughter, and pain.