4a Group #3

2. Summarize the reading in one brief paragraph; be specific in your summary. Remember that your classmates will rely on you for this information. 2 percent
Dumas: Bienvenidos a Newport Beach is about a teen from Abadan, Iran who has recently moved to Newport Beach. How the new neighborhood is "planned", so everything on the outside of the house must be in uniform with the other houses. The Association decides on everything, what color the houses were, what flowers, no cars are allowed to park on the streets over night, the garage must be closed, and dog owners must pick up after their pets. The family didn't quite fit in, they would wear something along the lines that the gardeners would wear, while everyone else wore tennis attire. His parents used to say "They're always half naked".
Major: Cotton Candy Mirrors is about young summers with so little responsibilites, yet just enough to take the bus across town. They would play football in the street, and go to Playland at Beach. Playland at the Beach is a mini theme park on the beach. This included, a roller coaster, and typical carnival games.

3. Which was your favorite sentence or paragraph (include entire quote; use quote marks and page number)? 1 percent
Dumas: "Every once in while, one of the neighbors would ask me to please tell that gardener over there that he forgot to trime the hedge on this side. When I'd say I didn't speak Spanish, they were so shocked!" page 93
Major: "There was the inevitable Ferris wheel that took you up higher than the windmills without sails, so that you could see the blude of the Pacific Ocean, the green of Golden Gate Park, and the pale succo house of the Richmond district, all laid out around you. " page 96

4. What did the reading make you think of? (be specific eg "There is a bridge in SF that spans 4 miles from SF to Oakland and in the middle of the bridge it crosses an island called Treasure Island. This story makes me think of that specific little island where I can see the entire city and bay area. That city was also in the news recently where .... ) .75 percent
Dumas: The reading made me think of how one feels when in an entirely different atmosphere, and you feel like the black sheep. "We didn't look like anybody in our neighborhood. We looked like the gardeners. I think the gardeners knew that too because they always looked at me kind of funny. It was liek they wanted to know how I got in the house". page 93
Major: The reading made me think of when I was younger. How i had no worries or a care in the world. It made me miss my adolescents. "Those adolescent summers seem like such a luxury now; those few years when we were old enought to take the bus by ourselves, and young enought to have only the limited responsibilities of a few daily chores". page 95

5. What is one thing you did not know before you started the reading that you now know (again, be specific using concrete examples)? 1 percent
Dumas: I didn't know that Iranians only had one kind of attire for parties, women wear alot of jewelry and make-up and the men wear suits and talk to other men. They don't have 'pool parties', and if they did, they'd wear the same thing.
Major: "knowing that the right lighting can hide any number of sins, or reveal every detail of abuses" page 102