They just are clueless about their privilege. Esperanza never knew her birth parents, but her adopted ones love her. Good Parents: Wanda tries to be there for Moss, supports his budding relationship with Javier, and helps him when he wants to protest the metal detectors for Reg's and the other students' sake.It's the administration's fault that the detectors were brought in the first place, hurting their students and that Javier died. Dude, Not Funny!: Invoked when the assistant principal brings plans for the magnets and makes a joke about how earbuds kept some of the students from throwing up, Moss calls him out for making light of it.Cast Full of Gay: Almost all of Moss's friends, including himself are non-heterosexual or transgender or both.But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Moss accuses the cop who murdered his father and Javier of this.Another tosses Reg into the metal detectors when he's merely asking if the sensors will affect his pins. Bullying the Disabled: The Resources Officers goes after Shawna, an epileptic, when he finds her pills in her locker and induces a seizure in her.Bittersweet Ending: Moss finally gets justice when the cop who killed Javier turns himself in and apologizes and the police withdraw the metal detectors/magnets at his school, but the dead are still dead, and Moss will never receive true closure after being traumatized twice by his loved ones being murdered by the police.You use that anger to get things done instead of just stewing in it.? You gotta grasp onto it, hold it tight and use it as ammunition. His efforts convince the guilty cop to turn himself in and the police to withdraw metal detectors from their school, though it's a Bittersweet Ending. "Anger Is Healthy" Aesop: Moss, whose father was wrongfully killed by a cop before the events of the book and deals with even more injustice throughout, learns that sometimes being angry is the right response to fight for justice, rather than giving in to fear.Moss and his friends are determined to fight back and organize but when tensions escalate and tragedy happens again, Moss learns that sometimes being angry is the right response to fight for justice. He already feels uncomfortable that his high school has a police officer and as more regulation is added, his school feels more like a prison. Since then, Moss goes to therapy to deal with crippling panic attacks, anxiety, and depression. Anger Is a Gift is a Young Adult novel by Mark Oshiro.Ī cop killed Moss's father merely for walking out of a convenience store at the wrong time.
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