This book really opened my eyes to understanding others and not making assumptions based on people’s skin color. Walking a mile in someone else’s shoes and understanding what their life might be like gives a whole new perspective on how I live mine. This book showed me that even though Zak was born Muslim, he is still a normal child. Getting picked on and bullied for being, “the new kid in town.” I had to go through the same struggles when I first moved to Lake City. In this essay, I will explain why Zak and I had different childhood’s, and how we both were molded by people’s first impressions on the new kid coming to class. Being born in a primarily white culture and society I was shielded from the “real” world. I never got to fully experience
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(Ebrahim 44)” When I was going into the second grade, I moved from Cannon Falls to Lake City. Zak said it perfectly, it is the worst time to transfer. We are just starting to develop actual relationships with our peers, just to get torn away and thrown into another environment. When Zak first arrived at his school, all the kids would harass him about what his father did, not what Zak is. When I first got to Lake City, I wouldn’t talk to anyone. I would go to sleep crying because I missed all of my friends back in Cannon Falls. It is known that children aren’t the most respectful people in the world. They are known to not be too kind to strangers coming into their friend groups, I would get bullied for not having any friends at the table I sat at for lunch. Eventually I got put into their friend groups and everything was good, but not the same could be said for Zak. “More than two decades later I still wince at the memory. (Ebrahim 44)” Zak never got over the bullying he had as a kid. This was another hoop that he had to cross over. I didn’t have to go over such a big hoop because it didn’t take longer than a couple weeks to develop friends. We didn’t have exactly the same experience with bullying, but we can both relate to each other with being the outcasts when we first came to
(Ebrahim 44)” When I was going into the second grade, I moved from Cannon Falls to Lake City. Zak said it perfectly, it is the worst time to transfer. We are just starting to develop actual relationships with our peers, just to get torn away and thrown into another environment. When Zak first arrived at his school, all the kids would harass him about what his father did, not what Zak is. When I first got to Lake City, I wouldn’t talk to anyone. I would go to sleep crying because I missed all of my friends back in Cannon Falls. It is known that children aren’t the most respectful people in the world. They are known to not be too kind to strangers coming into their friend groups, I would get bullied for not having any friends at the table I sat at for lunch. Eventually I got put into their friend groups and everything was good, but not the same could be said for Zak. “More than two decades later I still wince at the memory. (Ebrahim 44)” Zak never got over the bullying he had as a kid. This was another hoop that he had to cross over. I didn’t have to go over such a big hoop because it didn’t take longer than a couple weeks to develop friends. We didn’t have exactly the same experience with bullying, but we can both relate to each other with being the outcasts when we first came to