D.Miklowitz,Gloria-The war between the classes: Amy Sumoto ?

Amy Sumoto is the first person narrator in the novel "The War Between the Classes" by Gloria D. Miklowitz and the story is told from her point of view. Amy is just her nickname, her real name is Emiko. She is a beautiful exotic girl and lives with her parents in a multi-cultural middle-class neighbourhood. She is 17 years old and is therefore going to high school.

Except of the end she has a bad relationship with her father because she thinks that he is very old-fashioned and does not accept her? "white" boyfriend Adam.
But deep inside she loves and respects her parents.
She lives in two worlds: At home she is Emiko Sumoto at school just Amy (p.7, l.25).
She wants to be the perfect American girl for Adam, but for all that she tries to find her "real self" (p. 33, l.1). During the colour game she several times tries to help the lower colours ... to unite .... against the system (1). She never gives up, not even when she has become an Orange (p.33 l.33) “It wasn’t in my nature to try to fail” - that shows that she can be a very strong-willed person if she really believes in something.
Amy is very helpful, she tutors Adam`s sister in maths. Moreover, she usually is very friendly and polite towards others. Although she is a blue she does not treat anyone badly only because of his or her lower colour.

I think around chapter 9 and 10 Amy is getting more and more self-confident ....(2). From this time on she stands for her own opinion and isn’t even afraid of talking about her thoughts and feelings (p. 76). The best example for this development is her reaction when Adam asks her to bring him some food (p.98). She asks Adam why he can’t get the food himself . A bit surprised about Amy’s reaction Adam gets the food for them without saying a word. Before this time, she has thought that Adam will not love a girl with her own opinion and ideas (p. 33, l.10). This view changes in the course of the book. She slowly develops her own personality.
She leads the oranges to sabotage the “Colour game” in Chapter 12 (p.96) - that shows her courage.
.... another very good example for the changes of Amy’s personality is that she dares to hang up the “All Colours United”-banners together with Juan (p.68/69) and that she even admits that she has done it (p.75 ff).


1) ich kenne den Text nicht; habe versucht, den Satz an das zuvor Gesagte anzuschließen.
2) at all heißt "überhaupt nicht"

ich habe -fälschlich? - immer aus "color" colour gemacht.
Genaugenommen musst die "Color" bei Zitaten stehen lassen -ansonsten, wenn du darüber schreibst, "colour" schreiben .

very good attempt

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