♥{Black Boy Response}♥

Black Boy so far is a very good book, as I have said before. Richard Wright is wrote the story from his 10-year-old perspective. Obviously the way he puts things when writing them is not completely the way he saw things back then. If it were then, he would have been a very smart kid. There are moments where racism is very evident to him and he talks about them.

I like the way Richard writes, because when he comes across a moment in his life that seriously affected him, he goes more in depth and then he foreshadows what it did to him. For example when he has to say goodbye to the children at the orphanage, says that he did not know it at the moment but when he would grow up he would realize that he would often be found doing things that did not fully express his emotions.

Another part that really caught my attention is when Richard talks about all the superstitions he learned and I realized that I did not know a lot of them. It was very contradicting, because Richard and his family at Christian, religious. I did not think that religious people were superstitious.

I also like when Richard’s mom is sick about to die. Richard is young but he quickly realizes that everything he went through is going to get harder if his mother dies, he knows that he would have to get a job and take care of himself, and he’s ready for that. He says he cannot wait until he is old enough to leave and take care of himself.

Another thing, is when Uncle Clack asks him about his life at home, and how he’s been. Richard is ashamed of what he has been through. He is in the home of people with enough money to eat well each day, and he’s been hungry for a long time, and watched his both go to work every day and still not be able to feed them and pay for rent. Richard is ashamed of getting drunk at the age of six and saying bad words and doing things he knows now where wrong.

THIS BooK IS GooOOoooOOOoooD (:

Hungry for Attention!!

Firstly, I would like to say that so far I like this book. Yes, I have only read the first chapter, yet I feel a promise of knowledge and understanding of perseverance in this book.

Is young Richard alone in his cravings?

This boy, Richard, burns his home. He moves to a crappy flat with his family, his father abandons them, and is forced to grow up quickly.

Richard is hungry. He is hungry for attention, for a way to escape all that is going on at home. While his mother works, young Richard goes to a saloon and drinks, says bad stuff to people for money, yet the money is not what matters, it is the attention, people laugh at him and with him. Richard wants something to do.

Is he alone? Yes, I feel as though he is. Even though there are other people in the story that are hungry too, it does not mean that they are hungry WITH Richard, or even share the same cravings….

In the beginning of the chapter he talks about burning the house and shares a dialogue with his younger brother, yet afterwards his brother is not mentioned. The reader knows that throughout Richard’s stay at the orphan house, his younger brother is there with him, but Richard does not mention him.

His mother also, is told by Miss. Simon not to visit them so often, so Richard does not see her too much anymore. Richard does not like his dad, or Miss. Simon, and defiantly not his father’s strange woman.

I get the feeling that this six year old boy is very alone. True, the author is going back and putting things the way he sees them now, but still, it seems to me as if he kept to himself a lot. He knew what he felt, but did not express it aloud.

Yes, I guess he was alone, alone in his had, left to talk to himself, because everyone else seems kind of busy doing something else.

King Still King?

So I don’t really know what this bloqq is supposed to be about, so I will write a response to Letter from a Birmingham Jail by King. Wow. Well I really liked this, i thought it was going to bore me to death, seeing that it was like 11 pages (in 12 pt. Times New Roman font). However, it was very inspiring, it really got to me. King talks about why he is in jail, what he’s fighting for, what he is disappointed in, and he does so in a bunch of words. I thought about summarizing the whole thing and then just writing my view on the letter as a whole, but as I was reading I copy and pasted some parts, the quotes that I really liked and inspired me to write about them, I have 4 quotes so bare with me. xD


• “justice too long delayed is justice denied”

I saw something in this first quote, it brought back childhood memories, of what I would go shopping with my mom at a mall. We would go into all the stores she wanted to go, and we would past by the food court, or an ice cream shop, or a toy store and I would ask for something, she would just say “when I’m done with my stuff” and as we kept walking she would keep saying it, then at the end of the day we would just go home and I wouldn’t get an ice cream. I might have gotten a piece of 25 cent gum from one of the little machines, just something to shut me up, but I wouldn’t get what I wanted. King, this is what he’s saying they gave him just something to shut him up at Birmingham, when he went there to see change, real change.

•  “More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will”

Wow. Okay this one is true, you use time more efficiently when they are up to no good. When i was younger I thought more about playing a trick on my cousin, I thought about where, how, and at what time would play a prank even what would I do if I got caught. Yet I would be all lazy in doing my homework, or helping my mom clean up the house. Those of ill will plan their mischief more careful than those of good will, because good will comes naturally and ill will takes time to master *wink *wink

• “Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever”

So this one is one that really focuses more on the King and his cause, this says “we will get freedom”, it tells us that the oppressed man is a tired man, a man that will soon be tired of being oppressed.

• “...the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love?”

Quote number 4 here asks you a personal question, what kind of extremist are you? What is your real motivation to speak out? Love of hate? You love your cause and hate those who oppose it, but in your heart and mind which one is stronger? You could be fighting for the wrong reasons, and that would be a bad fight. If you got what you wanted, it would be what it will be, but it would have sprung form the wrong reasons.

 
The question is if King is still King? well yes, he was aiming to better the treatment of his people. Now, there is still a few racist people, but most of all understand that it's wrong and point racism out stand up for "the greater good"

Children of the Sea.

I really liked this one. I like how the girl and the guy wrote in journals, about everything that was going on around them, but still speaking to each other. It reminded me of praying, when you pray (or at least from the few times I’ve done it) you think about everything you have done, but you are talking to God and asking his for stuff (luck, money, miracle, etc.)

The love that these two share is enormous, it practically jumps out of the pages and into your SOUL (if you have one). They describe their love with things they see around them (how cute). What makes it interesting is that they are both in some sort of danger.

What is kind of obvious is that the guy is more educated than the girl. That’s not what I wanted to talk about though. I really liked that the girl’s father saved her life, by buying off the soldiers that wanted his daughter. This is what a typical dad would do to save his little girl, and he didn’t think the guy was right for her. Like a normal daddy he wants the best for his daughter and he didn’t think the dude would give her that.

The pregnant girl on the boat, was really cool too, the symbol of her baby being born in the middle of all that crap (literally) is there. Then the baby is born dead, he won’t cry, and she doesn’t want to trhough him into the water, and when she does she jumps in after it, so they both die. A mother’s sacrifice, and everyone else doesn’t give a f***k crap. I guess that the fact that a baby is involved makes it all that more realistic and horrible. =’{

The ending really got me sad, because they make you think that the guy dies, and she is running away from the butterflies of bad news. He didn’t want to trough his book overboard, but has too, she didn’t want to hear the bad news, but hears it on the radio, they are both running away from something, poor souls.

Dear God 2.0 [The Roots Ft. Monster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIkdkZWlf6g (or if you can play it, it is also on this page next to the doggy w/ a tv)

So this song kinda sorta just CAME to me. It jumped out at me and hit me in the eye. I really didn’t know about the band but I really liked it. The lyrics are great. I mean that’s when you know a song is good, when you like it off the bat, this song was like that for m e. the lyrics go like this. The song starts off kind of slow and normally I hate that in a song, but, I kept listening because I googled the lyrics and they were good, so I wanted to hear how they put them together, obviously it had to be rap (oh yeah). I’m not a crazy rap song fan, but I listen to it a bit. This sing, like I said brings up really good topics (I like songs with a meaning). My favorite verse is:

♫ They said he’s busy hold the line please
Call me crazy, I thought maybe he could mind read

Who does the blind lead?
Show me a sign please
If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?
And why do haters separate us like we siamese?
Technology turning the planet into zombies
Everybody all in everybody’s dirty laundry ♫

By “he’s busy...I thought maybe he could mind read” they refer to God. Well people pray to god, and everyone wants their prayers answered, but they don’t ALL get answered. We kind of have to get in line to get “or prayers answered”, God, they say is supposed to read minds, because how else could he get through so many prayers?

“If everything is made in China are we Chinese” haha. ‘nuff said.

“Technology turning the planet into zombies” well, iPads, smart houses, COMPUTERS, they finna take over the world, dude. Maybe not to that extent, but seriously some of us (most of us) now have crappy writing because we are so used to typing things out instead of writing them out. (I can hear my mom saying “Back in my day….”)

“Everybody all in everybody’s dirty laundry” we live in America, no secret is a secret. ‘Nuff said.
So I hope you listen to the whole song, get the lyrics if you must, but the song is good.

You know what? Here are the lyrics, ‘cuz I know you’re lazy:

♫Dear God, I’m trying hard to reach you
Dear God, I see your face in all I do
Sometimes, it’s so hard to believe it…
But God, I know you have your reasons
(Uh huh)

They said he’s busy hold the line please
Call me crazy, I thought maybe he could mind read
Who does the blind lead?
Show me a sign please
If everything is made in China, are we Chinese?
And why do haters separate us like we siamese?
Technology turning the planet into zombies
Everybody all in everybody’s dirty laundry
Acid rain, earthquakes, hurricane, tsunamis
Terrorist, crime sprees, assaults, and robberies
Cops yellin’ stop, freeze
Shoot him before he try to leave
Air quality so foul, I gotta try to breath
Endangered species
And we runnin’ out of trees

If I could hold the world in the palm of these
Hands, I would probably do away with these anomalies
Everybody checkin’ for the new award nominee
Wars and atrocities
Look at all the poverty

Ignoring the prophecies
More beef than broccoli
Corporate monopoly
Weak World economy
Stock market topplin’
Mad marijuana oxycotton and klonopin
Everybody out of it?

Well I’ve been thinkin’ about
And I’ve been breakin’ it down
Without an answer

I know I’m thinking out loud
But if you’re lost and around
Why do we suffer?
Why do we suffer?
(Uh huh)

Yeah… It’s still me, one of your biggest fans
I get off work
Right back to work again
I probably need to go ahead and have my head exam
Look at how they got me on the Def Jam payment plan

Well, I’m in the world of entertainment and
Trying to keep a singing man sane for the paying fans
If I don’t make it through the night, slight change of plans
Harp strings, angel wings, and praying hands

Lord, forgive me for my shortcomings
For going on tour and ignoring the court summons
All I’m trying to do is live life to the fullest
They sent my daddy to you in a barrage of bullets

Why is the world ugly when you made it in your image?
And why is livin’ life such a fight to the finish?
For this high percentage
When the sky’s the limit
A second is a minute, every hour’s infinite

Dear God, I’m trying hard to reach you
Dear God, I see your face in all I do
Sometimes, it’s so hard to believe it..♫

Jay & Nick

Yo. Let's talk about Gatsby using Nick for his own benefits. Gatsby loves Daisy, and he knows Nick is related to her, that should be enough to tell you that something's up. Gatbsy can be considered somewhat of a stalker, i mean he bought the house opposite of Daisy's so as to admire her from afar, and he thouws HUGE  lavished parties hoping she'll come. Gatbsy invites Nick to his party hoping that he would invite Daisy. This guy is really in love, he's crazy rich and he always gets what he wants, if you ask me, Nick is a way for Gatby to get Daisy, the girtl that got away.
Let's be honest, we've all done that at some point in our lives (or will), we somewhat use our friends to help us get with a guy/girl we want. I'ts human nature ;D

The Snowflake Battle. And Hitler

I step out once again into the cold air
My snow-covered car is still there
I feel like like taking a trip, just for fun
I've been a good girl i deserve at least one
My foot prints get deeper as i walk
The sun is gone, it didn't wanna talk
I walk and i walk straight into a thought
the snow, the joy, the holidays, the bliss
the wind blowing on my cheek, a happy sweet kiss
Wouldn't it be great if the snow lasted all year?
The ice skaters, and snowboarders would have nothing to fear
The snowmen would be dancing around
singing of the new hats they've found
Jenny would bring all the jolly happy snowmen to life
while Clara would try to slit their throats with a knife
My friends would surround me all year long in gloves, hats, and glee
We would watch T.V. drinking hot cocoa and tea
Life would be merry if it was always winter
but OH NO! I've walked so far i think i see Hitler!