Summary
Maya is a young girl from Kazakhstan who came to be in the United States after a financial problem resulting in both her parents losing their jobs, but after her aunt Madina left the country to move to the U.S. to get married to a man named Bob Cambell who saw her aunts picture is an international dating magazine the family soon followed for financial and pestering reasons. Not long after Maya’s family settled in and adapted to the western style of life, her father got a job driving a cab and her mother a job cleaning houses. Maya goes to highschool not fitting in very well, she has to deal with the constant stress of being responsible for her brother’s every breath. She finds a way to relieve all her duties by signing up for the …show more content…
She had sat down with grimace thoughts sprouting out of her mind, but to her surprise the conflict hadn’t a word to her name. She’s astonished to the news of her brother’s scuffle at school. When she is told that she has 24hrs to contact her parents to have a conference at Nurzhan’s school. She calls her father, as he approached the school his face glowed with demon rage at the very mention of this scuffle. Maya had found herself translating the words wrong to protect Narzhan who was surely doomed if not for Maya’s courageous efforts. The next day was like a blur, Maya was steamed for missing her meet for yesterday’s incident, Maya wanted to get away that’s when she found comfort in gymnastics. It had been just what she had needed to feel free again. After practice she again found herself in another situation when she willingly let an American boy parade her around in his arms. To the ultimate surprise her father appeared like a ghost from the dead, she pleaded to be let down and she was rushed into the car crying. Nahzhan tried to explain American customs to their parents, but they wouldn’t budge. The next morning Maya was in shock after discovering her mother’s crutches, she had thought this was all her fault so the next couple of days Maya took all her mom’s jobs to help with the bills she also attended school did her homework, helped Narzhan with his homework and cooked dinner. Tired and distraught she needed a break, but she found herself in the same position looking at that very same permission slip. Narzhan trying to make up for all the trouble he had caused for Maya, offers to fix the situation by
Maya is a young girl from Kazakhstan who came to be in the United States after a financial problem resulting in both her parents losing their jobs, but after her aunt Madina left the country to move to the U.S. to get married to a man named Bob Cambell who saw her aunts picture is an international dating magazine the family soon followed for financial and pestering reasons. Not long after Maya’s family settled in and adapted to the western style of life, her father got a job driving a cab and her mother a job cleaning houses. Maya goes to highschool not fitting in very well, she has to deal with the constant stress of being responsible for her brother’s every breath. She finds a way to relieve all her duties by signing up for the …show more content…
She had sat down with grimace thoughts sprouting out of her mind, but to her surprise the conflict hadn’t a word to her name. She’s astonished to the news of her brother’s scuffle at school. When she is told that she has 24hrs to contact her parents to have a conference at Nurzhan’s school. She calls her father, as he approached the school his face glowed with demon rage at the very mention of this scuffle. Maya had found herself translating the words wrong to protect Narzhan who was surely doomed if not for Maya’s courageous efforts. The next day was like a blur, Maya was steamed for missing her meet for yesterday’s incident, Maya wanted to get away that’s when she found comfort in gymnastics. It had been just what she had needed to feel free again. After practice she again found herself in another situation when she willingly let an American boy parade her around in his arms. To the ultimate surprise her father appeared like a ghost from the dead, she pleaded to be let down and she was rushed into the car crying. Nahzhan tried to explain American customs to their parents, but they wouldn’t budge. The next morning Maya was in shock after discovering her mother’s crutches, she had thought this was all her fault so the next couple of days Maya took all her mom’s jobs to help with the bills she also attended school did her homework, helped Narzhan with his homework and cooked dinner. Tired and distraught she needed a break, but she found herself in the same position looking at that very same permission slip. Narzhan trying to make up for all the trouble he had caused for Maya, offers to fix the situation by