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.
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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]
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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.
-existential angst? You are well prepared for term 3
ReplyDelete-never say, that's all I have to say. The period does that for you
Dreams of my father
ReplyDeleteSummary: This is a short summary of what I read during the chapters 6-11. I am just going to scratch the surface of what happens in these chapters because I don’t want to ruin the book. The main idea or what happened in these chapters was it shows barrack Obama two years from graduating from college and he is traveling to Chicago. In the beginning of chapter about seven he is in New York City sleeping in an alley way and he is using an open fire hydrant to wash himself. He knows only one person in New York City and his friend lets him live with him. Then he goes to L.A and encounters another friend. He then meats his friends mother and they say that barrack is nice but is a little weird, and they call him Barry by accident. The last thing I have to say about the summary is that this shows how Barrack Obama had a thought life. That is all I have to say about this chapter summary.
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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.
“Ever since the first time I’d picked up Malcolm X’s autobiography, I had tried to untangle the twin strands of black nationalism, arguing that nationalism’s affirming message-of solidarity and self-reliance, discipline and communal responsibility-need not depend on hatred of whites any more than it depended on white munificence. We could tell this country where it was wrong, I would tell myself and any black friends who would listen, without ceasing to believe in its capacity for change.” [Barrack Obama 141]
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.
Dreams of my father
ReplyDeleteSummary: This is basically a summary of the next few paragraphs from were I left off. The chapters that I read was chapter twelve thirteen and fourteen. Basically what is happening now is Obama is getting ready to travel to Kenya and get to his new college in Canada. He is only a few years away from graduation, and convicted himself that failure is not an option and he is going to the top. He will soon find out that this is more true then he knows. He is also getting all of his things together so he will be ready for the trip and have a leg up in the game. Lastly at the end of chapter fourteen he is entering and or getting close to Kenya and then the story takes a little skip. That is all I have to say about this topic.
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“because the book teaches me things,” I said. “About white people, I mean. See, the book’s not really about Africa. Or black people. It’s about the man who wrote it. The European. The American. A particular way of looking at the world. If you can keep your distance, it’s all there, in what’s said and what’s left unsaid. So I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate”[Barrack Obama 267]
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.
Dreams of my father
ReplyDeleteSummary: This summary is going to start were I first left off. The chapters that I am going to summarize in this summary are fifteen, sixteen and seventeen. In chapter fifteen barrack Obama is in young adulthood and has finished studying at Occidental College for two years he transfers to Columbia University in New York City. It was here that Obama studied political science and it led to the political career he has today. The net chapter I will summarize is chapter sixteen. His political carrier Starts in Chicago, Illinois, Obama takes a position as an organizer, addressing important issues to the local people on Chicago’s south side and doing what he can to improve the lives of the residents in this volatile part of the city. The next chapter I am going to summarize is chapter seventeen. What happens in that chapter is barrack Obama is in Chicago when he fined out that his father has died in a random car crash. Those are the three chapters that I read for this summary.
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.
Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred-for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology [Barrack Obama 305]
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.
Dreams of my father
ReplyDeleteSummary: This summary is going to start from were I left off on the chapter summaries. The chapters that I am going to summarize are the last two chapters at the end of the book before the epilogue. The chapters are chapter eighteen and nineteen. I am going two back one summary of the two chapters because the two chapters have the same topic or plot line. After finding out about the death of his father Barrack Obama he decides to travel to Kenya to search for his family roots and discover the other members of his extended family. He gets to meet several siblings, grandparents, and other relatives whom he only knew by voice or by name before. Obama ends the book with an Epilogue and a copy of his keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. That is basically the chapter summaries of chapter eighteen and nineteen before the epilogue.
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“Sister Regina,” Marcus said. “You know Barack, don’t you? I’m trying to tell Brother Barack here about this racist tract he’s reading.” He held up a copy of Heart of Darkness [controversy ], evidence for the court. I reached over to snatch it out of his hands….” [Barrack Obama 380]
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.