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 …
Category: Reading Response Obama
Reading Response Obama-Rehana Parvin
On pages 76, Obama says and I quote “away from my mother, away from my grandmother, I was engaged in a fitful interior struggle. I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the …
Reading Response Obama – Abel Tricoche
- In your own words, summarize the scene you have chosen. Write one paragraph of 5-7 sentences.
I chose to summarize the scene about Ray’s party. Right before the scene Ray and Obama had an argument about a senior named …
Reading Response Obama — Richard G. Bordes
- In your own words, summarize the scene you have chosen. Write one paragraph of 5-7 sentences.
- In this scene, Ray is throwing a predominantly black party at his home and suggests to Obama that they invite their white friends, Jeff
Reading Response Obama- Sangay Dolma.
Connection to Malcom X’s autobiography(pg86-87) .
1.Obama starts to read books of black authors but finds out most writers gives up in the end. Only Malcom’s book caught his interest but again he gets troubled by Malcom’s wish to clean …
Reading Response Obama — Jaqueline
In pages 83-85, we see an important part of Obama’s life while growing up. After an argument between the both of them, Ray invites Obama and his white friends to a party he’s having. When they arrived on the day …
Reading Response Obama — Newton
On pages 86-87 it talks about Obama reading the autobiography of Malcolm X and how his ideologies changed what Obama though about certain topics. The words spoken to Obama in the text inspired him due to Malcolm X speaking on …
Reading Response Obama – Gentian Dumani
Around spring Obama begins to talk about a basketball game he attended when the University of Hawaii had made the national rankings. The team consisted of an all black starting five and Obama watched the players during their warm up. …
Reading Response Obama – Leslie Martinez
“Why wasn’t I starting on the football squad this season, no matter how many passes the other guy dropped? Tell me we wouldn’t be treated different if we was white. Or Japanese. Or Hawaiian. Or fucking Eskimo.”
I started to …
Reading Response Obama. David Antwi
On page 80-81, as a reader you witness the life Obama went through being black. In the short reading of that article, Obama was had to juggle the way he lived having white folks as friends while with his black …
Reading Response Obama-Chris Gjoka
On pages 80-81 Obama is reflecting on his past and how he was treated in his daily life and the experiences that come up. He experienced and heard a lot of racism from people that he come across. Most of …
