Manolo once said about adoption that, “Family is family whether it is the one you start out with or the family you gain along the way”. Alex started her life getting adopted into an all-white family as a person of color. When she was around sixteen years old, Kit, her sister, showed Alex the letters from her biological dad. Alex decided to call her dad and after the call, Alex was more intrigued to learn` more about her adoption. In the text See No Color, Alex faces the issue of discovering her identity as someone who was adopted and she responds to the issue by finding out more about adoption.
In the book See No Color, Alex faces a struggle of getting adopted into an all-white family, as a person of color. One example that Alex deals with …show more content…
One example that Alex is taking action to find out the history of her family, by looking for her biological dad. Alex was looking up her dad in order to learn about him after reading the letters. She found his phone number and decided to call him. “‘Is Keith Mitchell there?’ I asked. My hand was getting sweaty, so I tried holding the phone with just my fingertips” (Gibney 130). This quote shows Alex is struggling from being adopted because she is faced with the problem of calling her biological dad. This is a struggle for Alex internally because it was very hard for her to talk to him after giving her dad a surprise call. Alex was effectively able to get in touch with her dad, even though it was …show more content…
Alex read a blog in the library about adopting a child with “special needs.” She was curious about this because her adoption papers all said she had “special needs”. “Black children, especially those marked with some disability, are consistently the cheapest, followed by mixed children, and native and Latino children, then the Asian children” (Gibney 138). This quote shows Alex is struggling with being adopted because she does not have a good understanding of the information that she found in her adoption paperwork labeling her as special needs. She decided to take action by going to the library to learn more about her “special needs”. Alex did this in order to fully understand why her biological dad placed her for adoption. In conclusion, this is how Alex responded with not knowing about her family
In the book See No Color, Alex faces a struggle of getting adopted into an all-white family, as a person of color. One example that Alex deals with …show more content…
One example that Alex is taking action to find out the history of her family, by looking for her biological dad. Alex was looking up her dad in order to learn about him after reading the letters. She found his phone number and decided to call him. “‘Is Keith Mitchell there?’ I asked. My hand was getting sweaty, so I tried holding the phone with just my fingertips” (Gibney 130). This quote shows Alex is struggling from being adopted because she is faced with the problem of calling her biological dad. This is a struggle for Alex internally because it was very hard for her to talk to him after giving her dad a surprise call. Alex was effectively able to get in touch with her dad, even though it was …show more content…
Alex read a blog in the library about adopting a child with “special needs.” She was curious about this because her adoption papers all said she had “special needs”. “Black children, especially those marked with some disability, are consistently the cheapest, followed by mixed children, and native and Latino children, then the Asian children” (Gibney 138). This quote shows Alex is struggling with being adopted because she does not have a good understanding of the information that she found in her adoption paperwork labeling her as special needs. She decided to take action by going to the library to learn more about her “special needs”. Alex did this in order to fully understand why her biological dad placed her for adoption. In conclusion, this is how Alex responded with not knowing about her family