96 pages • 3 hours read
Sara SaediAmericanized: Rebel without a Green Card
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 2018A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
In the author’s note, Saedi writes that she deliberately uses humor to tell her family’s immigration story. How might this humor be different if there wasn’t a happy ending to her story—i.e., if her family did not receive their green cards?
What do Saedi’s diary entries reveal about her daily preoccupations as a teenager? How do they function as a literary device?
As a teenager, Saedi has many personal insecurities and doubts about her self-worth. Why does she include these narratives in a story largely focused on more important topics, such as immigration? How does she shed these insecurities?
