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.
