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.
