 Ice Cream  Homework  Pizza  Steelers  Waikiki  Homelessness

 Write a 1 page story about a homeless person Can be fiction or non-fiction Include: (3/4 of a page)  person’s age  Physical description  How they became homeless  Where they live Your feelings (1/4 of a page)  About your character  About homelessness

 Take notes about presentation to: Help you complete your homework assignment Guide your reading

 Matthew Kaopio  Born and raised in Hawaii  As a young boy, surfed Kauai waves  Kamehameha Schools graduate  Lives on Oahu  Artist- Paints with his mouth  Paraplegic – lost his mobility in a diving accident

THE AUTHORTHE ARTIST

 Main character has lost his family  Hawaiian ancestry  Homeless on streets of Oahu  Learns about self and family while on his journey on streets  Aumakua  Think about your quick write and what you thought about homelessness while you read this book!!

Author did field work for this book by studying the homeless on streets of Waikiki. Also, his grandmother told him many stories that he incorporated into book.

 Identity  Homelessness  Social Responsibility  Spirituality and Omens

 Magical realism novel has:  Magic without Genies Good fairies Wizards  Magic intertwined with a realistic story: It is unexpected and startling It creeps up on the reader  It is fiction with magical elements

 In movies: It IS Groundhog Day Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas O Brother Where Art Thou? Being John Malkovich Edward Scissorhands Purple Rose of Cairo Big Fish Field of Dreams L.A. Story Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  In Movies: It is NOT Harry Potter Fairy Tales  Wicked Step Mothers  Genies

 Dreams send protagonist messages that reveal a truth that happens in real life  Pay attention to all the different magical realism elements that occur in the book

 Why would authors use magical realism in their stories?