assignment 12

There are several themes in the book: Identity Hopes and dreams Home Education Race Traditions and customs Poverty Literature and writing Mortality ​ Compare the themes in the book to the problems discussed in the documentary "The Canary Effect". Record your findings and post them on your blog. 1. hopes and dreams, Junior is in the begin of the book hoping to become very rich and this moves on in the whole book till the end. 2. identity, junior and his family are like Indians but they won't get the cultural identity anymore because they want to be like every other American and that they are not different. but they actually always be. 3. poverty, he and his family are not having that good as you think in a great for example: in the beginning of the book is he explaining the readers why he and his family are not having it so good, he had a dog but he went very ill and his parents couldn't pay for a operation because they don't have te money for it and have to spend it on things that are very useful. So you see his family has to make a lot of choices and sometimes they are very hard to take.