ITALIAN ENTRY
"Stranieri come noi"
Vittorio Zucconi

In Italian class, we are reading a collection of stories written by Vittorio Zucconi.
Vittorio Zucconi was born in 1944, he is a journalist and works for 2 newspapers: “La Repubblica” and “L'espresso”. After traveling the world because of his job, he wrote this book, which is an attempt to show that people of all around the world are all the same and that they all feel the same emotions and the same pains...
The story which I liked the most is “USA: il giubbotto” ( USA: the jacket) , the story of Chenille, a young girl that lived is a poor suburb and that was killed “for her jacket”. Chenille was very good at school and so her mother decided to buy her a jacket of the “Chicago Bulls” which she really liked. One day, a girl saw her jacket and told her boyfriend that she would really want to have it too. So, he killed Chenille and gave the jacket to his girlfriend. When he was captured by the police he said: “I buy things with my knife, not with money: it costs nothing!”