Brown Girl Dreaming

This is my second time reading the wonderful story Brown Girl Dreaming. I was first introduced to this story two semesters ago in my children interpretations class. Both times reading this book I fell in love and recommended this story to many of my peers. Reading this story again it seems like I was able to make better connections, and I was also able to understand the story better. My first time reading Brown Girl Dreaming I was confused about the writing style and was not use to books being in that format. What I loved most about this book is how the author expresses throughout the story her love for writing, and how she followed her dreams and actually became a writer. Throughout the book, it is clear to the readers that the author is passionate about wrting. Reading her stories you can tell she is good at what she does. It's crazy to think my great grandparents and grandparents were alive during the civil rights movement and were victims of racial profiling and segregation. My great grandfather was born in 1927 and has been alive for 89 years, many of the topics discussed throughout Brown Girl Dreaming my grandfather also experienced. My great grandfather worked in the coal mine and just like Jaqueline grandfather at the end of the work day is was hard to tell who was black and who was white. Many topics that were discussed throughout this book hit home for me because I have heard very similar stories. I'm so thankful for civil right leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther Kin and Rosa Park for helping mold the future for me. I can't imagine being alive during the civil rights movement, I think things for African Americans are bad now. It's hard being African America and reading stories like this because many people think that segregation was years and years ago
when in reality it wasn't too long ago,