https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld based on Americanized - Rebel Without a Green Card by Sara Saedi en-us 2020-10-02 17:23:46 UTC 2020-10-06 17:20:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1f1-1f1f7.png 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801001840 This quote is from the beginning of the book that introduces her major struggle. She wasn't a normal American teenager, she was an illegal immigrant from Iran. ]]> 2020-10-04 17:02:02 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801001840 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801007914 This quote, contrast to the first one, shows one of the author's "normal" teenage struggles. This could be a struggle that American teens also face. ]]> 2020-10-04 17:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801007914 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801008447 2020-10-04 17:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801008447 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801025492 2020-10-04 17:25:59 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801025492 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801029751 2020-10-04 17:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801029751 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801031786 "...then, when I get home, I got my social security card on the mail... Days [of our Lives] was really good." (21 Saedi). This was her diary entry from the day she got her working permit and social security number.]]> 2020-10-04 17:32:12 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/801031786 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803049109 Another problem Sara Saedi faced was here eyebrows. Unlike the other girls at school, Sara began to form a unibrow. This is a really easy fix, unless your Iranian. And it was a tradition in Sara's culture where the girls couldn't do their eyebrows until they were fifteen.]]> 2020-10-05 13:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803049109 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803068695 However, in Iran plastic surgery is extremely common and is a sign of wealth and something they are extremely proud of. ]]> 2020-10-05 13:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803068695 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803891368 2020-10-05 16:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803891368 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803897531 2020-10-05 16:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803897531 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803902063 2020-10-05 16:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803902063 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803915397 I wanted to use her sister's nose job and this picture as symbolism. Her sister getting a nose job kind of felt like letting go of Iran and trying to conform. Sara chose not to get a nose job like her sister. She was stuck between her two homes and her two cultures.]]> 2020-10-05 16:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803915397 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803926944 2020-10-05 17:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803926944 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803941871 2020-10-05 17:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803941871 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803996122 Something the Saedi family would face in their lives was xenophobes. Sara recalled her other friend was an immigrant, however she was legal. She would shame people who came to American illegally. Sara never told her she was an illegal immigrant. She was fearful she would report her. ]]> 2020-10-05 17:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/803996122 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804021147 "During that last stay in San Jose, she went on a walk, stumbled across a church service, and slipped inside. She couldn't understand what anyone was saying or doing, but she still wanted to observe and even dropped five dollars in the donation basket. I can imagine that some churchgoers may have been unsettled by this old lady in a head scarf hanging out among a bunch of Christians. But I'd like to think that they kept an open mind, like he always did, and that no one let the words 'Go back to your country' enter their thoughts." (106 Saedi). This shows how her grandma was open minded and wanted to learn, but she couldn't understand the service. The reasoning for this quote is mainly the last two sentences where she talks about how she is grateful her grandma only spoke Farsi because she can't help but think the worse. This is because Xenophobia is a big problem in America.]]> 2020-10-05 17:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804021147 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804528703 2020-10-05 19:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804528703 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804532535 2020-10-05 19:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804532535 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804536237 2020-10-05 19:29:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804536237 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804540541 The Saedi family fled their country due to the government and the ongoing war. ]]> 2020-10-05 19:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804540541 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804552755 2020-10-05 19:34:55 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804552755 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804554676 2020-10-05 19:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804554676 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804573272 Although her parents tried to keep their kids connected to Iran, they also let go parts of the Iranian culture. First of all, the Saedi family were all atheists. In Iran, their religion is Muslim and it is enforced. Women have to wear head scarfs and cover themselves. But Sara's parents decided that this wasn't something they wanted to carry to America. Lastly, Sara couldn't speak Farsi. Farsi was the language all her relatives back in Iran could speak. "...but I couldn't communicate much beyond the usual Farsi phrases..." (147 Saedi).]]> 2020-10-05 19:41:51 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804573272 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804592328 2020-10-05 19:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804592328 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804596746 Sara Saedi told the story of how she moved houses and I think it made a very great comparison between her immigration and something everyone does at least once in their lives. "A month later, we moved into the Caden Village town houses right off the Camden exit on Highway 85 South. I didn't complain about the long drive to school, or the fact that we had to get bunk beds for my room so that my sister would have a place to sleep when she came home from college. I would even go on to make a new collage. If I had to name the piece, I'd call it: Resilience." (214 Saedi)]]> 2020-10-05 19:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804596746 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804677974 2020-10-05 20:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804677974 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804681030 2020-10-05 20:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804681030 23freshleybrooke https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804684380 In an attempt to speed up their green card process so they could finally fit in America, Sara's parents got divorced. This really upset Sara and her siblings. They thought there parents love story was one of true love and them having to de divorced was not acceptable. "When sixteen-year-old me, who'd suffered from chronic bouts of unrequited love, looked at them, all I could wonder was, Will I ever be this happy? And that's precisely why I was left emotionally discombobulated when I found out that my parents had secretly gotten divorced." (179 Saedi).]]> 2020-10-05 20:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/23freshleybrooke/2jruxq730n7j43ld/wish/804684380