The Boarders of Diversity Poster board assignment made us examine different discourse communities in Reyna Grande's "The Distances Between Us" that Reyna was apart of. Being apart of so many like children of poverty or being an illegal immigrant we start to see the connections of many of these discourse communities. The topic I choose was the importance of having a parental Figure and how different parental Figures have an impact on your life. Throughout the book Reyna and her siblings are passed from living with both parents to only living with one parent at a time to living with the grandparents. These different parental figures all had impacts on Reyna's life and drawing the connection between the experience Reyna had and what actual qualifies as a proper parental figure we start to see the importance of guiding the youth.