Summary:
The first five chapters or about the first one hundred pages cover the life of barrack Obama from the day of his birth to about the time when he is eighteen or in other words it covers the school life of Barrack Obama until the day he graduates or the day he enters adulthood. It also covers the family history of his mom’s side of the family. The importance of the story is not the boys own adventure in Indonesia but the way that barrack Obama has a really weird relationship with race in his life and all around him. As he grows up, gains a bit of freedom, and other black kids are enrolled in the school, he finds that he has a hard time identifying with them. One big question that I and I am sure other people have is why? If I had to guess I would say that it is because his father is black and his mother is white so he is split between two different cultures and two different races or two different views on race. He has a wonderfully supportive mother grandfather and grandmother. The last thing I have to say is what happened at the end of chapter five. I know that this is going to sound weird but at the end all that happens is Obama is rudely awakened out of existential angst. He goes through a laundry list of his grandmother’s laundry and found out that his grand mother use to work as a maid. That is all I have to say about the first 5 charters.
Quote:
I choose this quote because it really stood out for me and I think it really showed the type of style that the author uses in the book.
I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant. [58]
Reaction:
This is the reaction that I had to the story and how the author used his style to make it sound like it was back in the day. Also his type of style that he uses. This is going to be a very brief summary of his style. The type of style that I found the author used was he would make it simplistic and he would tell It from a first person view, and he would make it should like it did back in the day when the moment called for it like angry or a emotional scene. Lastly the reason why this quote is important is the story is about fitting in and trying to be a black American and in the quote it says I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America this shows he is trying to understand his black heritage and he wants to fit in with the black people. That is all I have to say about this topic.
