Chp 4 page 82 P1,”We were in goddamn Hawaii. We said what we pleased. ate where we pleased; we sat at the front of the proverbial bus. None of our white friends, guys like Jeff or Scott from the basketball …
Category: Reading Response Obama
Reading Response Obama – Paola Capano
- Obama’s mental note of the “ledger of slights” he experiences daily (80-81)
In pages 80-81, Obama goes into his experience with racism as a young black male. Although it is something him and his friends would joke about, “That’s just …
reading response Obama-jennifer
Party at Ray’s
In this scene, Obama is at a high school party. He did not like Kurt because he thought he was making fun of him and his friends. Ray tries to tell him that he’s overthinking and that …
Reading Response Obama- Maryfer
The night of toot’s and Stanley’s argument, Obama drove to one of his grandfather’s friends house and there, told him about the argument his grandparents had had. They sat at Frank’s porch and drank whisky while Frank told Obama that …
Reading Response Obama — Kendra Larosiliere
“The older woman in my grandparents’ apartment building who became agitated when I got on the elevator behind her and ran out to tell the manager that I was following her; her refusal to apologize when she was told that …
Reading Response Obama — Migdalia Rivera
On page 90 of chapter 4 Frank has a talk with Obama about his grandfather Stan. Frank was like Obama’s mentor that hung out with Stan .His grandparents were also white . He mentions and points out a few things …
Reading response Obama- Julian F. Georgi
“I’m saying yeah, I might not get the breaks on the team that some guys get, but they play like white boys do, and that’s the style the coach likes to play, and they’re winning the way they play. I …
Reading Response Obama- Laurencia Colon
Barack Obama waking up and hearing Gramps ( Grandfather) and Toot (Grandmother) arguing. Toot wants Gramps to drive him to work that morning because she was bothered by a “Black fella”. Obama was disturbed by such attitude but tries to understand Toot …
Reading Response Obama-Karem Ali
In this paragraph Obama talks about Malcolm’s book and how it offered something different. He talks about how one line from Malcolm stayed with him too. Obama also talks about Malcolm’s wish and how he shared the same wish. Obama …
Reading Response Obama — Your Name Here
Read and annotate carefully Barack Obama’s Chapter 4, Dreams from My Father. PRINT IT OUT! Obama, Chapter Four
Obama is very good at writing scenes. Study the way he creates theatre of the mind for the reader. He takes …
