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In a neighborhood with only white kids, Sophia and her family are the only ones who are black. She suffers with that, because when she tries to play with the other kids, they do not let her play, because she is black. One example is when she tries to play in the Baker’s swimming pool with Jennifer, Deidre says that she cannot go swimming in her pool, because of her skin color. Francisco is a Spanish-speaker while the other kids only speak English, and he is also excluded because of this, and like Sophie, he is excluded by being different.

The two of them had moved from where they lived, even if that happened for different reasons, they both had been affected. In Francisco’s story, the author tells that he is very poor, he says that his family had moved recently to work in Tent City USA, because there was no more cotton for them to collect. Sophia had also moved, but she had only moved to a new neighborhood. In the beginning of the story Francisco said that classes in English only gave him a headache, but now he has Arthur as a friend and he is also making friends with Curtis,  getting better with English, while Sophie has only Jennifer. Because of her skin color, the kids of her neighborhood think that she cannot play with them, and that she is different from the others.

In the book It all comes down to this, Karen says that Sophie lives in a good and rich neighborhood, but she prefers her old house. Because when she goes out to try to play with the kids that live in her new community, most of them judge her because of her skin color. But although all this happens, she is just a normal girl like all the others. Francisco does not have a good financial condition, his parents have to go around a lot of places looking for a job, and like they do not have a house, his whole family also needs to go with them, which makes he and his brother late to the school year. Francisco did not understand what the teacher was explaining in the classes, only because of the English, so if he had came to school earlier, he would understand English and would understand the subject better.

The summer vacation is ending, and now Sophie will need to get friends in the school, but she doesn’t know how she will find them in the school if she only has one in her neighborhood. Her family suffers a lot with racism. Her sister is trying to get a job, but where she really wants to work, they only hire white people. Francisco also suffers exclusion, but he does not speak english, which makes making friends harder, also because he had never gone to a school before. He had never went  there because his parents lived by traveling and working where they could to sustain his family. They only went to Tent City because they could not collect cotton anymore and Francisco would need a school, so he had to study there.

Moving to a new place is very difficult, even more if you do not speak the language of that country or if you do not have many friends. But like Sophie, in the end of the book, Francisco tries to make friends with Curtis. Sophia tries to play with a lot of kids in her neighborhood, but none of them want to play with her, only because of her skin color. But in the end of the book, Francisco tries to make friends with Curtis, even though he does not speak his language.

In the book “Kizzy Ann Stamps” by Jeri Watts, the story talks about Kizzy, a black girl that is futuristic, doesn’t like to be bossed and is very wordy. She has a scar in the right part of her head and also lives on a farm. In the story “Inside Out” by Francisco Jiménez, the story talks about a Mexican boy, a Spanish speaker that moves to Tent city in the USA. Francisco is a poor guy, but at the same time so much creator.  Both Francisco and Kizzy have difficulty adapting to different situations, but they both have issues with self confidence, which is also a cause for them to have few friends.

KIzzy and Francisco don’t have facility, of course difficulty adapting in different situations. Even though they both are passing for difficulty in adaptation, they are passing for different things. In kizzy’s story 1963 is the year that the integration of white and black people is working. In her community, racism is still accepted ”Did you write letters of welcome to your white kids, too? I guess you have to, to make things fair, but I hope you didn’t. They are always welcome. We’re the ones trying something new, being made to go where we aren’t really wanting to go.” KIzzy said, page 27. Kizzy will enter an integrated school, which has just four black students counting with herself that will enter in September with her. She will face a new school, with different people, being a black kid with a scar in the head. In Francisco’s situation, he enters an American school, where there are American teachers and American students, so Francisco will face a place where he can’t communicate with anyone. As a consequence he feels anxious about this, “I did not speak or understand English either,and I already felt anxious.”Francisco said in the third paragraph. As he is poor, Francisco doesn’t have a good quality of education, which is a thing that will disturb him more and more in his life.

Both Francisco and Kizzy have issues with self confidence. The motive that causes this insecurity in her, is the scar she has in her face that highlights her everywhere she goes. She thinks everyone should think she is a monster. In page 9 when Kizzy was writing in one of her letters to Mrs. Anderson, where she is giving reasons for her admiration for Shag, she said that Shag is the only one who doesn’t look at her with fear. With the same trait as Kizzy, Francisco has insecurity about his clothes and his English, which don’t exist. He is in a place where he can’t communicate with anyone, he can’t understand the teacher, his classmates, who would be his possible friends, so being insecure is like a consequence “Miss Calapino started speaking to the class and I did not understand a word she was saying. The more she spoke, the more anxious I became.” When he says this is clear he feels insecure about himself. And he says this  the whole story. Another motive that causes this insecurity is that he doesn’t have a good quality of clothes and the lack of clothes. In the story there is a part where Francisco was the only one that didn’t have a jacket: “I was the only kid in the playground without a jacket”. As a matter of fact Francisco can be sad because he was cold, but is more likely that he was feeling excluded.

Kizzy and Francisco have few friends. Their insecurity is also one more challenge in their relationships. In Francisco’s relationships, Francisco has just one friend in the school that is Arthur, who knows a little bit of spanish. This happens also for the absence of english and for his first time in school. Francisco can’t understand any word in English, making it impossible for him to make many friends if he doesn’t speak their language. One example of this is when Francisco was in the bus with her class yelling and talking and he got a headache because he couldn’t understand anyone: “Some kids were yelling at the top of their lungs. I did not know what they were saying. I was getting a headache”. Readers can notate when Francisco said this he passed a feeling of exclusion. Since this is his first time in school it is normal he doesn’t adapt easily, even because he is a new student that still is not a part of the group of friends. Common to Francisco Kizzy is excluded in her class. KIzzy hasn’t had any friends since she moved to the new school. Because of the preconception, she doesn’t want to be friends with any white kid in her class, she thinks the white people pretend to offer chances to black people, studying in the same class for example. In page 62, Kizzy claims it “Those white kids aren’t my friends. I know it. Folks may be pretending to offer some chances to black people, going to school together and all”. 

Both Francisco and Kizzy are excluded in their school, even though they have such different traits and motives. But in common they have the same consequence, which is insecurity. 

There are two types of people, friendly and the people we have difficulties making friends. These two aspects define Sara from ”Running through Sprinklers” by Michele Kim and Francisco from ”Inside out” by Francisco Jiménez. Both Sara  and Francisco are different because Sara is funny, friendly and very social but she is a people-pleaser. Francisco is not completely opposite, but it’s more difficult for him to make friends because Francisco doesn’t speak english. Francisco is an immigrant,  Spanish speaker, also friendly but prescient. In the school Francisco has many difficulties learning and interacting with your classroom friends.  

Nadine is Sara’s best friend and she says ” Sara is a persistent person and we are friendly”. Francisco it’s not completely the same, he is persistent but he is also friendly, because he doesn’t speak english, differently from Sara. For example, on the first day in the school francisco doesn’t know how to interact, because he doesn’t speak english. Francisco is from a really poor family and Sara it’s not poor, but she’s not rich. But what really affects Sara is if a person who does everything to please and doesn’t lose friendship for nothing.   

Sara is also protective with the persons we love, she is afraid to lose your best friend and is so attached to her. And some of Sara’s clingy attitudes led to a conflict in their friendship. Nadine says to Sara ”Sara you are very attached to me and I am not very comfortable with this. Can you give me some space please”. In the Francisco story he is a new student and we had a conflict with Miss Scalapino. She doesn’t give much support for Francisco to learn English. Both Sara and Francisco have good things in their relationships, but the two relationships have more bad things then good.   

Both had ways of dealing with conflicts.   Francisco, as he couldn’t speak a bit of English, when Miss Scalapino read a story to the class, Francisco used his creativity and imagination to imagine what he was saying in his head and thus try to understand a little of what he was talking about. Sara handled her conflict in a different way. She continues to be friendly and social. But to make people like her more she did everything to please, thus becoming people-pleaser. 

In conclusion, Sara and Francisco are also different but have similarities on the traits, relationships and on the conflicts.  Sara is persistent in continuing friendships through people-pleaser and does anything for them. Francisco has many difficulties for learning and doesn’t have support for that,    but he is persistent in trying to learn even  though don’t know how to speak english. Both relationships are more bad than good. The readers may understand that on ”Running through Sprinklers” the main idea is that you should let a friendship flow lightly and not have a certain dependence on it. And on ”inside out” we can understand,  with your willpower you can always do the things you want.  

In your childhood, you must have heard the saying “choose your friendships well”. Maybe you ignored it, but you must know that it is important. In the story “Looking for X” by Deborah Ellis, an eleven-year old girl called Khyber lives in a poor house, and has a friend called X, who is wanted by the secret police, helps Khyber to vent the anger and envy she has for the popular and prettiest girls who are spoiled by the school. On the other hand, in the short story “Inside Out”, by Fransisco Jiménez,  a poor non-English speaker boy in the US enters school in January and has difficulty making friends. Both Fransisco and Khyber have opposite reactions toward conflicts and the relationships they have in different moments, but they both are brave for facing complicated situations.

Both Fransisco and Khyber act differently toward conflicts in school at different moments. At the first moment, Fransisco and Curtis had a bad relationship, because they fought for a Jacket while Khyber and Tiffany, who had an argument, mainly because Khyber is envious of Tiffany.  But in the second moment, Fransisco turns to Curtis’ friend, because he gives Curtis his first-prize drawing. On the other hand, neither Khyber or Tiffany wanted to be friends, so they kept a conflict by pulling each other backstage of the school presentation.

Both Francisco and Khyber act differently toward relationships they have in different moments. Artur is Fransisco’s only friend, because Arthur knows a little Spanish. They played and talked, and according to Francisco, “During recess, he and I played on the swings and I pretended to be a Mexican movie star (…) and singing the corridos we often heard on the car radio.” That shows that they not only share their language, but also their culture.  On the other hand, when Miss Scalapino is close, Arthur avoids Francisco, because Miss Scalapino gets really angry if she hears them not speaking English. Francisco does not always  interact in a good way with Arthur because of Miss Scalapino, as Arthur avoids Francisco, so he feels bad for not being together with his only friend in the school. In contrast, in Looking For X, Khyber and X always had a good relationship, because as I said, it is good for Khyber because she vents anger and envy and it is good for X, because Khyber is her only company, since she is wanted by the secret police. Khyber’s relationship with X is always good, but Arthur’s relationship with Fransisco is bad when Miss Scalapino is close.  

Both Francisco and Khyber are really brave for facing their complicated situation. According to Francisco, “Roberto was the only one in the family, including Papá and Mamá, who had attended school” and “It was late January and we had just returned, a week before, from Corcoran where my family picked cotton. We settled in “Tent City,” a labor camp owned by Sheehey Strawberry Farms located about ten miles east of Santa Maria”. That shows that Francisco lives in a tent, his parents are migrant workers, and no one in the family (except for Roberto) had been alphabetized. Similarly, Khyber lives in a really poor house with a single mother (Tammy) and two autistic brothers (David and Daniel). According to her, ” one day, I will be rich enough to eat as many plates as I want”. That also shows us she is poor and she shares the attention from the mother ; it also suggests that she does not have a lot of friends. Although they face really complicated situations, Fransisco faces it by trying to have friends in school (Arthur and Curtis) and Khyber by trying to find a refuge on X, so she can vent everything and relax. Francisco moves frequently, so he has difficulty to adapt to the places where he lives, and he is brave because he tries to make friends although he does not have good conditions at home.

Francisco and Khyber are courageous for fighting against their bad situation, while  their conflicts and relationships are not always the same. Fransisco had a bad relationship with Curtis at the hirst moment, but he tried to fix it. On the other hand, Khyber and Tiffany never wanted to be friends. Fransisco’s relationship with Arthur is normally good, but when Miss Scalapino is close, they don’t get together, but Khyber’s relationship with X is always good, because X gets company and Khyber can vent what she feels. Both Francisco and Khyber fight against their situation, as Fransisco fights against the poorness of the family by being the second person in the family to go to school. Khyber fights for her mother’s attention, as she has two autistic brothers that demand a lot of attention. From both the short story “Inside Out” by Fransisco Jiménez and “Looking For X” from Deborah Ellis, we can learn that our conflicts and relationships can be different, but we all need to fight to overcome whatever situation we go through. Have you ever heard people say that: “never settle, always go beyond.” That is really important for our lives and both Francisco and Khyber show that to anyone that reads these stories.

Both Francisco from “Inside Out” by Francisco Jiménez and Alice from Walking With Miss Millie by Tomara Bundy  are facing difficulties to adapt to a new school, and  Francisco and Alice are not so popular. But a different aspect between them  is that Francisco is more timid while Alice is more delicate and she wants what is best for people. in ”’Inside Out,” Francisco is a young boy that was going to a school for the first time. Maybe this affects why he is not so popular or is it just because he speaks a different language. In Walking With Miss Millie, Alice is 9 years old and is moving to a new city on Rainbow, with her mom, dad and her brother Eddie who is deaf. At her residence where she lives, the girl takes care of the elderly and her grandmother asked her to take care of her dog. In her new school Alice does not adapt very well because she feels excluded.

 Alice has great difficulty adapting because like many children when they enter a new school, she ends up being a little more shy at first, even she is already in the fourth grade she already knows how the school works and ends up letting go a little more than Francisco who is in the first grade, its is his first time at school. Well in Alice’s old school she had several friends living there for a long time in case she was born. Francisco only has two friends because he is too embarrassed to talk to people, one of these friends also speaks spanish and the other had a fight but they resolved it with Francisco giving him a drawing. Francisco thinks he is different because he only speaks in Spanish and your school is all in english.  

 Francisco is not so popular because this is his first time at a school and he has difficulties adapting at school and he is shy because he thinks that someone will bully him or make fun of him because he only speaks in Spanish and that makes him think that he is different from the others and thinks he will never learn english to speak like a normal person, everyone has difficulties making friends in a new school, Alice is a different girl who only wants the best for them is different and thinks that someone will intimidate her it. Alice is not so popular because at her new school she has a hard time making friends because she thinks that just because she moved to another city she will never make friends again.

Alice is more delicate because in the story she likes to help elderly in her neighborhood and for this you need a lot of patience because some of them are cantankerous and this is fussy but she does a good job, and she has a brother called Eddie, he is deaf  even though she help him and protect two. In Francisco’s case he is tired to move many times to a new school principally because he is timid and demonstrates this many times in the story but he can be timid only because he doesn’t now speak spanish. 

The summary of the story is that she was moving to a city from another but she doesn’t like this idea because she has many friends in her old school. She went to Rainbow, which is a city that was in Georgia with your mom, dad and her brother that is deaf. For a while she dont make friends and dont adapted in her new school, after her classes she goes to take care of the elderly in her neighborhood, at least that’s what she likes to do and it makes her distract from her school, but there is a specific neighbor called Miss Millie  is to invite you to their homes every day to take care of her dog and he ends up becoming your best friend. In Francisco’s story he’s moving to the United States because he’s kind of poor and can’t afford to live in Spain and his parents needed a cheaper school for him to study so they went there, Francisco didn’t like it but wanted to go. At his new school he makes a friend named Arthur and fights with a boy named Curtis but later they become friends because Francisco gives him a drawing. Speaking of drawing he loves to draw things.