Arieana

Well Mark:
The characters in the Our America really didn't do anything by themselves. The two characters LeAlan and Lloyd was always together doing things, like going to their favorite places hanging out. They go around to different people in the projects and ask them questions together. They are bestfriends and they always stick together. They have eachother backs. LeAlan and Lloyd really aren't just bestfriends they are like brothers to eachother. You can say a brother from another mother. They both are positive young men and their goal is to make change in the projects and to bring people together to care what goes on in the hood. Letting people know that he just can't make change by himself nor can we make change by ourselves but he's talking about "all of us as one, living together in our America" quoted LeAlan on page 200. I would say i like to think alone. You sometimes when you are in a room full of people and everybody got an idea and they start to talk about them. Then you get like can you please just go somewhere because then you can't hardly think what you want to say. So thats what i like to do alone. Somtimes i can get to a place where i don't want anyone around me. You know sometimes you just want me time and not having all kinds of people with their drama, jokes or negative around.

Jessica
Yes the characters in my book have felt abandon by family members. Like LeAlan he feels abandon from his father. His father acts like he doesn't exsist in the world. Lloyd feels some what a hole in his heart because his mother dead and his sisters had to take care of him and his other brothers and sisters. He doesn't feel that motherly love that he should have as a young child growing up.