Brown Girl Dreaming Analysis

This book was definitely interesting to read and it wasn’t a bad book, but the characters were all over the place and it was really confusing trying to figure out who is who in the story because Annie had a big family and a lot of friends. I also thought that the author L.M. Elliott did a nice job blending the historical fact of the Civil war in with the book. I think that a lot of the book was accurate. It was just a little confusing with the characters, but it was a good

Jaqueline Woodson’s, “Brown Girl Dreaming,” is an autobiography about her upbringing and her younger life. This story tells of the struggles of being an African-American in this point in history, and the everyday struggles of being a young girl growing up. The story starts in Columbus, Ohio, 1963, the day Woodson was born. The story tells that Woodson was named Jaqueline because her father, Jack, wanted her to be named Jack, but her mother, Mary or “Mama”, wouldn’t settle for a typically male name to become her daughter’s name, so they decided on Jacqueline. Woodson had two older siblings, her sister, Odella, and her brother, Hope. Odella was named after their uncle, Odell, who passed away in a car crash. In the first year of her lifetime, Woodson moved from Ohio to South Carolina, and her parents were fighting. After her parents got seperated, Woodson tells of her early childhood in Greenville, South Carolina. At the same time, the Civil Rights Movement touches their lives more and more. Jacqueline takes in all the ways that she and her family are discriminated against in South Carolina, from Gunnar’s coworkers disrespecting him to segregated buses. In Greenville the children observe sit-ins in Greenville firsthand. It is interesting to hear of what Woodson remembers from her childhood, as she was two years old at this point. Her mother brought up her children very strictly, as she did not want them to fall into the wrong track. She taught them to always be polite, but

My first impression of “Brown Girl Dreaming” was that it was going to be a story about a girl that always seems to be dreaming. The silhouette on the cover made me question if the girl was going to be alive at all, or die somewhere along the way. Within the first few pages there of this novel there is a rather extensive family tree. One of the first indications that this book took place a few decades ago was the size of the families. An average sized family, now a days is about 2-3 kids, whereas about 50 years ago it was 4-5 kids. In the back of the book there is a few pages of pictures of the family. In most of the pictures people are smiling and happy, except the Ibrys of South Carolina. The south was not a place to be for

The book Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson is about Jackie and how her childhood during the time of slavery and racism, leads her to be able to become a writer. The book shows how someone’s identity isn’t just based on how you’re born. Identity is how you react to things that are happening on the outside and also things that are happening on the inside. Because of where Jacqueline was living, her family, and the time period she was living in she was able to be inspired and become a writer.

The book Orchid of the Bayou was eye opening. Cathryn (Kitty) Hoffpauir Fischer did a good job of being honest, which really allowed the reader to get a better understanding of what being deaf in this time period meant. Her writing really allowed me to see the different struggles that deaf children had to face, and how these struggles were overcome by Kitty. This book taught me many things about Deaf culture.

There are man people that think this book is amazing and there are people that think this book is just not educational they say it brings back the past of things that don't happen any more. I think this book is a good book and explains the things that matter. The book basically show how blacks were treated back in the bay. It gives great examples of how life was back then and on how many people view black not just one opinion.

In my view this is a very worthy source of historical information and argumentation of work. It shows us all that blacks had to go through to survive. As well as how much they suffered. All blacks worked for where the whites which they were always mistreated, not payed enough. They were poor and had lots of family to feed. Many of the kids like Essie Mae had to work for a very low pay but it helped them not starve. It made us see later in the book of all the killings of blacks that were happening. They were all too afraid to speak up and do something about it, but not Essie Mae. During her time trying to help out and win blacks their freedom a lot happened that is still talked about today.

I personally thought the autobiography on Lou Ann Walker and her life was quite fascinating to read. It was also very disheartening to read what she have had to go through with so much negativity and ignorance that she endured from others just because Lou Ann's parents were deaf. Lou Ann also had to deal with that within the deaf community from others looking down on deaf people that she was trying to help, regardless of what the situation was. It's pretty amazing that she was still positive and had to fight through all of that drama alternating the issues in the both worlds and even herself too, the whole identity crisis. A normal person wouldn't be able to handle that kind of life she had, being expected to help out constantly and interpreting

In Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming, Jackie finds a sense of comfort in Greenville, South Carolina, which is her first long time home and where she spends most of her pivotal growing years; for me my first long time home was on Guido street in Oakland, California, this is where I felt the comfortable to grow and learn freely.

It was really a joy reading it and experiencing the tolls of the tragedies on the narrator as I read. However, it was a very sad and moving story that would have you crying at parts and laughing out loud at others. I would suggest this book to anyone, as long as they enjoy books that might make them a bit emotional. Overall, I thought this was one of the best books I have ever read, just the story line was truly fantastic.

The best part of a long, hard-working day is when you finally get to lay in your bed, close your eyes and let your imagination run free. As you sleep your mind takes you to another place far away from the real world. You begin to dream. Over the night, you may have several dreams. In the morning, you may wake up and wonder what your dreams were suppose to mean for you and your life. By analyzing your dream, it "gives a true picture of the 'subjective state'-how we really feel about ourselves-which the conscious mind cannot or will not give" (Wietz 289). In order to find the meaning of a dream, you have to pick out the most important symbols and define them. But you may be wondering what exactly is a symbol?

Overall this book is good so far. Once I start reading it, I cannot put it down. It is a story that talks about the struggle of a young African-American girl named Shivana who is dealing with her poor lifestyle, going to school and being sexually active at such a young age. She is only fifteen and has been hooking up with a man who is married and has children. I found that this was so disturbing because I feel like Leroy (the married man) is using her for sex; he claims that he loves her but I am pretty sure he is doing it out of pleasure.

What Dreams May Come is a movie about life, loss, death, afterlife and rebirth. The film explores the emotions evoked by a variety of characters when they are faced with coping with tragedy and death. It also delves into the manifestations of heaven and the variety of forms heaven takes in the minds of different people.

When I think of reading a good book, my mind always turns to the time when I read Because of Winn Dixie. One day my mom told us we had to clean the house. I was the one who was cleaning and organizing the bookshelf. I was looking through all the books we had when I saw it. I saw Because of Winn Dixie. I looked through, it was a short book. It only had 182 pages. Then I saw that it was given as a gift to my oldest sister when she was in fourth grade. Since I was in fourth grade, I found it ironic that I found the book ten years after it was given to her. I begun to read the book, and started to like it more and more. Even though the characters life and my life were totally different, I felt that somehow I could relate. I enjoyed reading

This novel was so powerful and beyond words. Alice Walker is an amazing writer, and everything about this book was quite phenomenal. It was incredibly sad, and hard to read at some points, but it was absolutely worth the read. I love the fact that the whole novel was a set of letters about a girl’s life. It's an unusual approach but it worked so well. Shug was so empowering to me, and I loved what she stood for, no matter how many people talked bad. She defied common teachings about God and what to believe in. She helped Celie love herself and her life. This book has changed my outlook on dealing with problems, pain, and suffering. It definitely made me appreciate my life and every little flaw. I learned to be happy