I ESCAPED A VIOLENT GANG AUTHORS PUPOSE

This story is about how a young girl named Ana who was in a gang and she was trying to get out of it because she all of the stuff they did and on 1994 she was on trial it was her, a boy named John and Ana gang leader Paco and they were in court for witnessing Paco shoot and kill a teenage boy. After all of this Ana told the court that Paco did it and Paco said "Of all the people in the gang, your'e the last person I thought would betray me and after all of this happended Ana felt better about herelf.

I think the authors purpose is to never get in a gang beacus eit can lead you to dangerous things in life and it can get you nowhere in life.

I WAS A VIOLENT SKINHEAD MAKE CONNECTIONS

This story tells about how a boy named Frank Meeink was 13 and got into a fight with his stepfather and he couldnt control his anger so his mother sent him to his father to stay with him and his dad. His dad and his dad's wife were never around it seemed to him that no one cared about him so in the summer he went ot go and stay with his aunt and he shared a room with his cousin and his cousin was a skinhead.

This story reminds me of a story about how a young boy was in a gang similar to this one and went to jail for what he had done then met a person who changed his life around.

                                 

SALAH MOHAMED AUTHORS PURPOSE

This book is about Salah Mohamed who now lives Rochester, Minnesota, but he recently lived Mogadishu, Somalia. That is a problem for Somalia kids because they have to choose whether they want to be Somali or American and some kids may switch they wear American clothes, date American kids and they stop their Muslim prayers. Salah doesn't know where he fits in he moved here in 200 and he still feels like a Somali. Salah remembers alot about Somalai when Salah was ten his family had plenty of money and they live dwell but then the civil war came. They heard gunshots and they were scared when it was over the city was destroyed and Business were gone. After all of that Salah made it to they United States and before long Salah made friends.

I think the authors purpose is to tell us about how difficult Salah's life was and what he did to get it back on track. Also, the authors purpose is to inform us about his life style in Somalia and in America.

Elaine Zhang AUTHORS PURPOSE

      Elaine Zhang is about a woman who had a great life in China, but all of tat changed when her and her mom and dad moved to the United States. When Elaine was in China her and her mom were very close they went shopping  together  and they talked about boys and school together and in China her mom loved her alot, but all that changed when they moved to the United States. In the United States there wasn't much money, Elaine's father had no job and her mother worked at a supermarket. When is was night time Elaine's mother would always come home unhappy. When Elaine would be watching tv or reading and sometimes on the phone with her mom and her mom would yell and get mad at her. Elaine would wonder what she did wrong and she would cry and ask herself " Are you my mom?" and Elaine would also say "I don't feel like I am your child anymore."When Elaine was 13 that is when they left China and they settled in Oakland, California.When Elaine first came she was made fun of and called names, but then Elaine would be able to speak better English and she would start to make American friends.

I think the Authors Purpose was to tell us about how Elaine lived and what her life was like and China and compare it to the United States. Also, I think the authors Purpose was to inform us about how she overcame all of these standers.

ALEXIS OTONIEL AGUIRRE MAKE PREDICTION

This story is about a boy named Alexis Otoniel Aguirre and how he left El Salvador to go and live with his family. When Alexis was seven years old his family didn't have that much money, so they saved enough money to go to the United States. First Alexis's father went first and he live in Los Angeles. Then a year later his mom left. Then his younger brother left and now it was just Alexis and his grandparents. When it was Alexis turn to leave he didn't want to leave his grandparents, so his grandmother gave him ten dollars and his grandfather gave him a religious medal. So, when Alexis was traveling for 12 days he was rembering all the things he did in El Salvador. When Alexis was in the United States he took a hot bath and and went into the bed, but he says "My heart was racing".

I think that Alexis is going to like it at the United States and he is going to have really good fun and some good laughs.