Team+Cartier

=Team Cartier Orange Houses Discussion= = = = = = =

What parallels does the book have with your life?

 * Eric & Fillippo can identify with Fatima, as they have both left their county to come to America. A difficult part of living in a foreign country is leaving your home and family behind.
 * Cam can identify with the idea of the nerdy G-Pimp, because in his previous school there was a kid with striking resemblance to that character.
 * Just like Tamika, Mr.Eddy's wife is partly deaf. She values the fact that she can withdraw from the world of noise, like Tamika.
 * Some criticism was expressed with the characters in the book, mostly by the fact that the are either unrealistically good or evil. The general consensus was that less black and white, and more grey areas within the characters would have been beneficial to the book.

=On illegal immigration: Is it moral to hunt down illegal immigrants?=
 * As Mr.Wong asserts, the attitude of a country towards immigration changes depending on circumstance. A country, for instance, might have lenient policy towards illegal immigration when the its benefits outweigh the negatives.
 * Eric Li notices the similarity between Chinese and American immigration policy, as both try to keep illegal immigrants out. China also has a domestic immigration policy that can prevent the people from the countryside from moving to cities.

=Artifacts=

This picture, found by Filippo, shows from an aerial view a group of people standing in the shape of the Statue of Liberty.

Harrison made a pop-up city skyline, placed on top of a pack of drawing pens.

=Songs= [|Successful by Drake] Suggested by Nate [|Elias by Dispatch] Suggested by Harrison