Author of this

short story
 From early on, she

had already

experience

different cultures

and lifestyles.

Her experiences

were unique. Some

people don't get this

Personal connection. I can
treatment when they
relate too because I moved
arrive to a foreign
to the US when I was 8. I
country.
couldn't speak English

well, so I struggled

communicating with

others.
Valentine's Day is when everyone in

school has huge parties and lots of

snacks.

CONTENT ?: How does the author portray the girls feelings towards being in a new country?
In my own

experience, I
was this when
learned English
her passion of
rather quickly. It
writer came
was a struggle, but
from? If she
I managed.
weren't

influenced by

a book early
Experiences on, would she
from early on still have
can influence become a
your future a writer?
lot.

Understanding takes time.

This author

reminds me a

lot about

myself.

In school, we

also got read She had seen on

this story tv a lot of

negative aspects

of immigration.

CONTEXT ?: How would her life be different if she weren't given the opportunities to write her own poems at an early age?
They are Those who
immigrants, but aren't from this
because social country have to
media has said keep on
un true fighting. They
statements, the always feel
author believed they have to
them prove

something in

order to fit

societal

Even though expectations.

one could try

their hardest

to fit in, if

they aren't

from that

country,

something

will always One couldn't achieve

make them their dreams because
stand out to society will always
others. step in

I sometimes also feel like an outsider. I was born in Guatemala,

but all my cultures I don't have here. I feel like an outsider with

my Mexican and white friends.

 She had been

conflicted and didn't

PERSPECTIVE ?: Argentina has different educational opportunities as
go tot the INS. She
well as different gender expectations. With this in mind, how would the
could have made up
author's success as a writer be different if she hand't come to the US ?
the test, but no one

had told her that was

an option.
 There was always

going to be judgment

from those not

accepted. They'd try

their hardest to spread

rumors No matter who you are, where you're from, or what you look like, you should never let society

define you. They will always try to intervene and make you not be successful.

She now knows no matter how successful she becomes, people will always put her under certain stereotypes.