Throughout this text, the person who had the most power was the American friend who decided to make this choice. With her power, she made Cartwheel (the nickname given to the main character) an even stronger person. Moving is a hard choice to make and an even more difficult adjustment to make, as kind people or what Katherine Applegate calls it "welcomers,"we need to do what we can to make everyone feel included. A language barrier should not stop anyone from being friends. We need to teach children that they have the power to make a difference in someone's life. First, they just have to see it from a critical perspective.

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 So how can we determine if someone has the understanding that Cartwheel felt in My Two Blankets? Something everyone has to deal with in their life is being new. Whether it's new to a country, a place, a school, a club, etc., you have been in the situation of feeling like an outcast. That is the first step for feeling empathy for Cartwheel. Global and Critical Literacy can take your empathy and social conscience to the next level by including political nature within a text and exploring all the concept of it (Callow, 2017). John Callow dug further with this concept by completing a study in Australia with 40 students ranging from kindergarten to sixth grade. He collected data of how students interpreted images in My Two Blankets by conducting interviews. Callow asked students to interpret the proximity of Cartwheel and Auntie and what it may demonstrate. He also asked about the waterfall metaphor ("Nobody spoke like I did. When I went out, it was like standing under a waterfall of strange sounds.") and who had the least amount of power in a picture. These questions would show if a student really understood what Cartwheel was feeling. For the most part, students gave diegetic interpretations, or an explanation of a story based on internal logic. Students who were able to give a semiotic response, or an explanation where someone can link the features to the author's purposeful choices, were able to relate it to something they may have experienced. For example, when asked about who had the least amount of power in the photo, Azalea said, "Well, it's because everyone else there is bit loud and shouty. It just makes you feel like you don't want to do something." People are able to make these decisions based on their experiences with the "big p's" and "little p's." The "big p's" include larger politic issues (gender, race, global equity) while "little p's) include important, but smaller politic issues. Whatever we believe in we need to treat other people with respect.