Forgiven

Life for a child as an illegal immigrant was especially hard. The labor was hard work for a nine year old. He had never seen his hand so black and dirty before in his life, and the pay was very little. Immigration police came, but luckily Carlitos escaped with another worker named Enrique. The two struggled to find employment just to pay for bus fares. After meeting his father for the first time, he found out his father would not contribute torwards Carlitos's mission of reuniting with his mother. Carlitos fleeted to the city his mom was located at with Enrique. On the journey to every payphone in Los Angelos, Carlitos was spotted by the police. But because Enrique distracted the police and got caught, Carlitos got away. He wounded up in place that described everything his mother once shared with him, the exact location his mother would go to call Carlitos every Sunday. Carlitos and Rosario's eyes finally met. They cautiously wait quietly on opposite sides of the street and remain silent. They have finally

After his stay at the Carpenters,he had gone back to the orphanage “ the home of angels”. The nuns had found out about the abuse that jennings had received from the carpenters, they determined that him nor any other foster child would be staying there anymore. Jennings had told one of the nuns that he was going to be sick, the barley got to a sink before it came all up. Jennings then had gone to the nurse, he had explained that he did not eat anything but jell-o powder. “ why did you eat jello powder?” sister frances asked. “ i was hungry, sister. I had to eat something.” “didn’t they feed you?” “tears came to my eyes. I shook no.” Then after a while of him staying at the orphanage, his mother had finally came to get him and promised to never do it again. Since he has gone to the orphanage, he had missed so many school days that he had to be left back into the second grade. Jennings feels like his life is getting worse and

This story revolves around an undocumented family with the hopes that they will be able to live the "American Dream." The second oldest child, Francisco, otherwise known as Panchito who is also our narrator, is the main character of the novel. Panchito exposes a flurry of emotions with his roller-coaster ride of ups and downs, expectations and disappointments. He and his family expressed hope from the start of the story, dreaming of how life would be considerably better once they reached California, somewhere they thought to be a place where they could escape impoverishment. Panchito is shown as a very hopeful character; in fact, there are many times where he hopes for something to the point where he convinces himself it will happen, resulting in the numerous occasions of disappointment and discouragement. Yet, even with the frequent occurrence of disheartenment, Francisco pulls himself back up and perseveres. The author depicts Panchito as a determined character who always manages to push through rough times despite the circumstances around him telling him that he can't.

He's worked at least two jobs a week since freshman year and supported his dad, who was jobless, blind and fighting diabetes. His dad's health had begun failing before the December day Arneson found his body in their two-bedroom Lakewood

Alex Martin aka Al whose an african american male who’s 6’1’’,dark brown hair, and allergic to peanut butter has spent the last 9 years in jail.Al went to jail because he robbed a bank.Al’s first impression on the people he first seen when he got out of jail was he didn't care about anyone but himself.When Al seen his mother the first thing she said was how did you get that scar on your face.Al told his mother in his deep voice that he got into a fight with another inmate about who get’s to sleep on the top bunk,and he pulled a knife on him and sliced the side of his face.Alex told his mother he was going to get a job as a mechanic.Al’s dad walked inside his home stumbling and knocking things over.Al was tired of seeing his dad always drunk

Ronita’s grandmother, who has obesity, diabetes, and heart problems, support the family with her disability insurance, Ronita’s youngest brother, Donnell, has cerebral palsy and frequent seizures, and also receives disability. Her mother and older brother are unemployed, like most FEMA trailer park residents. Her father, a day laborer, was murdered 5 years earlier. The family’s phone was disconnected, so Ronita could not reach her family when she went into early labor.

Francisco is a boy living in mexico after a few years living in Mexico him and his family moved to California Eligoly . They hoped on a trane and rode to the border. They had to what intell night to cros the border. Francisco has 4 brothers and 1 sister. Francisco’s cherecter traits are resilient,helpful,and courageous.

This is how it was in the 1930s, there was a lot of racism. Darnell has to go to a specific school for african americans and they don’t have math or science. The other thing is that they don’t get any lunch at that school.the teachers were very sloppy and didn’t care about their students, the students were always hit by the teachers. Darnelle was barley learning how to talk and he was five years old. It's been almost a since his mom past away. It is now April 3, 1938, and now Darnelle is all by himself and in a foster home. The doctors found out that his had stage four lung cancer and even if they knew about it earlier that he had no chance of living. So now Darnelle was an orphan. So now he had no family to turn to he was all alone. This is probably one of the saddest stories that you’ve

Antwone Fisher was born while his mother was in jail and he never was able to see his father because his father died when he was a baby. When he got older, he went to a foster home and grew up with his foster family. His foster mother constantly abused him by beating him, belittling him,and calling him names. He was molested by a woman who was left to babysit him when his foster mother left. The one person who he could run to was his best friend. When Antwone got older and was homeless,

It was a cloudy day, a mild 78 degrees and Lezley McSpadden was taking a drag of her cigarette outside of the local grocery store where she was employed. She was midway through her shift when a friend of hers called and said that someone had been shot by Canfield Green Apartments. Maybe it’s only a mother’s instinct to recoil in fear, but in that moment Lezley could think only of her son Michael. Michael had recently graduated three months before and she wasn’t sure of his

You know - living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.”(Page 13)

So this boy by the age of 14, named Tim, lived in the worst neighborhood. There were murders, kidnappings, and even robberies. Whenever Tim witnessed something so tragic as of these topics I have listed above, he started to bawl. He cried and cried and cried until his mother came in with some cookies and warm milk and fed it to him like he was still her little 1 year old. Tim was never allowed to go outside. For 1, there was this gang called, “Victorians”, and whenever someone tries to cross their path, they would rob them of their money and beat the victim up. Tim had once crossed their path, and they tried to rob Tim, but 1 of the members passed out because Tim had thrown a pipe at the member’s temple, which was located on the sides of his

Outside, a deep silence fell over the neighborhood. This silence crept into every household. Members of the community had a guise of anger and pain expressed on their faces. Everyone locked themselves inside, to lament such a tragedy that has brought sorrow to a twelve years old’s family. Parents fell on their knees with tears in their eyes. This last murder represented the final straw. So many of their own had been murdered by the malicious, metallic, monsters that were supposed to be the defenders of their community. They felt insecure, threatened by the

Hines’ father earned a Bachelor’s degree in engineering that he uses at his place of employment, Mylan, where he is a production supervisor. Aaron’s mother also received a Bachelor’s degree, though her specialization is in education. She currently works as a payroll supervisor at RESA 7. Aaron has a close-knit relationship with both his mother and father. Unlike many, Hines’ parents did not give him a real push to go to school after graduating from Fairmont High, “It was more expected that I go…” Hines said “…there wasn’t much of a concern or doubt.” Aaron’s younger brother, Brandon, is 16 years old and works at a local Subway. He summed up the relationship he has with his brother in one sentence “We don’t really do much together…” Aaron said “… we really don’t even get

Hunter Powell was one of three kids and he was the oldest. Hunter was a brave, confident, and caring young 18 year old man. He had brown hair and blue eyes. Hunter is tall. He is six foot one inch. His family lived in a village called Millstone. It was a small village in the middle of a bunch of other villages and land plots. The town was a big trading post. They had all kinds of furs, food, and tools. In Millstone everyone had a farm. On those farms they had all sorts of vegetables and Hunter’s favorite potatoes. He did everything he could to provide for his family. His parents went to war a few months ago and came back just last week. He had to take care of his two twin brothers that are five years old and need a parent with them at all times.