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Choose 3 Formalist Lens Questions to respond to. Your responses should thoroughly respond to the prompt in at least three sentences.

Question#1 In the book the name "Ni**er" made for black colored people was frequently used when normally talking about them. The name is very hateful towards blacks and forbidden amongst everyone.

Question#2 The writers word choice is vey common as if you were talking to anyone telling a story making it easier to understand.

Question#3 On page 58 chapter "Sam" James said "Our black customers slipped up. The Klan would ride right up Main Street in broad daylight and no one did a thing about it" During these days the KKK could get away with murder and struck fear into Black, Jewish and white Civil rights workers.

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Find a quote in this chunk that stood out to you. Please also include a picture or GIF to further describe this quote.

Page 38 Chapter "THE OLD TESTAMENT"/" I was ashamed of my mother, but see, love didn't come natural to me until i became a Christian." Being a Orthodox Jew meant taking the religion very serious. sharing love as an orthodox Jew was hard to get from parents enforcing it.

Why did this quote stand out to you?

growing up my family did not go to church or make me learn about religion but i would hear how strict Muslims would be on their own family and it sounds like hard time to show affection around them even based on your gender roles.

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Choose at least one of the following social issues that were present in this reading chunk. Discuss how this social force was present in a characters life. (Your response should be at least 5-6 sentences).

Race/Ethnicity

James McBride's ethnicity was a mix of Jewish and Black. his skin was black and the rest of his siblings were also black but his mom was Jewish/white in the projects thriving with black people. during this time white people were targeted or were posed as a threat to black communities. The mother of James would take insults by others for who she had kids with and got called names like "Ni**er lover" and in the streets she was not safe either for the color of her skin. James saw the social issue between whites and black and knew they did not get along. James discovered a power organization called :"THE BLACK PANTHERS" and saw them as a threat to his mother making him more worried and scared for his mother.

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In what ways was this chunk a window or a mirror? Use the following questions to guide your response, but really we want to hear your personal thoughts and reactions to this chunk!

What experiences do you share with the characters?

As a Mexican American it is hard to gain respect by others. growing up developing a certain style with my skin color people see me as ratchet, a trouble maker, dumb or dirty. those are all names i have been called before because i am Mexican.

In what ways is your family similar or different from those in the book?

my family was not still not religious and i wonder how it is to have a family that enforces it

What did you learn about a character or group of people that you have not personally experienced?

my mom was never in harms way by any other race ever i think i would be terrified if i ever saw my mom in the days like they were back then.

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How does the meaning of a text change as you reread it?

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How does the meaning of a text change as you reread it?

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Page 98 Chapter (School)

"“Wait!” She charged past the court
officers, shouting to the judge that it was a mistake, that none of her kids
had ever been in trouble with the law before, that her son was a college
student, and so forth. The white judge, who had noticed Mommy sitting in
the largely black courtroom, released Richie to her custody and the charges
were later dropped."

This scene was confusing to me at first because the thought of the character being black at that time, it was most certain that he would end up in jail, But since his mother was a white women claiming him as one her own, all charges were dropped.

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How do your values alter your perceptions of the text?

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How do your values alter your perceptions of the text?

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When a Character/Author shares their values with the reader (me) they visualize it and feel a connection with the book having something in common and the reader then feels closer to the Character/Author.

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How might readers in different time periods or of different ages interpret the text?

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How might readers in different time periods or of different ages interpret the text?

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Two generations can have a major difference between each other such as morals, beliefs, idols, and social structures. Society in the 1910's would question why a black person could drink or walk amongst other white people today. Society today would probably question a law or moral in the future as well.

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Does the text hold the same opinion or perspective of the world as you have? What is there you consider wrong and why? (Use examples, quotes to raise an argument or to discuss your opinion).

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Does the text hold the same opinion or perspective of the world as you have? What is there you consider wrong and why? (Use examples, quotes to raise an argument or to discuss your opinion).

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The social classes back in the day in the book are very similar to today's world back in their day there would be neighborhoods of one race like the Jews, Blacks, and whites. but in New York it was and still is a melting pot of people.

Page 98 Chapter (School)

"“Wait!” She charged past the court
officers, shouting to the judge that it was a mistake, that none of her kids
had ever been in trouble with the law before, that her son was a college
student, and so forth. The white judge, who had noticed Mommy sitting in
the largely black courtroom, released Richie to her custody and the charges
were later dropped."

If the mother's skin color was black they would have had her out the building in a snap and thrown the book at Richie.

It is wrong for the way the judges mind set was for changing his mind just because she was white it should have been an honest trial from the start.

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Which of your personal experiences or memories is affecting your perceptions of the story?

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Which of your personal experiences or memories is affecting your perceptions of the story?

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Being in a club called ASES once in the fifth grade would be around my friends all the time during ASES hours and we would have a study hour and me and my friends would talk here and their make jokes here and there, but would get turned down really quick in a mean way by staff. Their was also a white group of friends that would do the exact thing we would do, but it felt that they got to talk much longer than us and when they would get told to quite down it was in a nice manner. That made me feel less than and opened my eyes to the privilege's of being the dominate race.

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What was the work’s original intended audience? To what extent are you similar or different from that audience?

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What was the work’s original intended audience? To what extent are you similar or different from that audience?

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the author's directed audience feels to be one's who have grown in poverty usually around different races their who life.

Growing up was not that great because just how like James life was, moving a lot because the rent was lower in a certain area was hard for me. before middle school me, my mom, and step dad moved to 4 different places and went to 4 different schools.

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How do economic conditions determine the characters' lives?

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How do economic conditions determine the characters' lives?

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The economic state the James mother was going through on page 141 chapter "chicken man"

"watching Mommy suffer. She, in turn,
suffered more, having no one to help her keep the younger ones in line. In
addition she had no money to pay heating bills, and light bills, and phone
bills, sending every dime she had from my stepfather’s pension and her
small work salary and social security to my siblings in college and grad
school."

"To earn dough, I sold reefer, keeping a stash of it at the railroad
tracks. When I ran out, I talked my friend Joe into robbing a dealer who we
knew had a big stash. Joe had a .22 caliber pistol and I carried a straight-
edge shaving razor I’d found among my stepfather’s things."

My answer:

The economic state drove James into making money for himself and for his mother the wrong way later on causing him to rob a elderly women and did not feel bad because he felt he was getting back at the world for experiencing the same thing.

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What forces are motivating the characters? 

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What forces are motivating the characters? 

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Page 194 Chapter (THE PROMISE) "late age for most folks to leave home in
those days, but he was an only child and his mother, Etta, didn’t want him to
leave home. She’d had a few miscarriages and Dennis was her only son, but
he went to New York because he wanted to pursue music."

"Dennis almost starved to death fooling around with that music"

Dennis had to make a tough choice between staying with his mom who has a tight relationship with or his music career which he starved and almost killed him self for he choose to go to New York to pursue his music career and since back in the day they would not hire a black man as a Orchestras he later had a friend who was a "superintendent" at a apartment in Manhattan. Dennis lived rent free with them.

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What did you learn about yourself or the world through this memoir?

What i learned about my self and the world over all is that from this book is that since the dawn of time people have been discriminated for how they look and in some way have been put in a box by the dominate race, but most importantly Anyone can make it out the mud. These people listed truly inspire me because they have came from the bottom and made it to the top with the support from their mothers privilege's and hard work ethic.

Pages 275-276

ANDREW DENNIS MCBRIDE, B.A., Lincoln University; M.D., University

ROSETTA MCBRIDE, B.A., Howard University;

WILLIAM MCBRIDE, B.A., Lincoln University; M.D., Yale University

HELEN MCBRIDE-RICHTER, R.N., Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania

RICHARD MCBRIDE, U.S. Army veteran, B.A., Cheney University

DOROTHY MCBRIDE-WESLEY, A.A., Pierce Junior College; B.A., La Salle
University

JAMES MCBRIDE, B.A., Oberlin College; M.S.J., Journalism, Columbia
University

JUDY JORDAN, B.A., Adelphi University

HUNTER JORDAN, B.S., Computer Engineering, Syracuse University

HENRY JORDAN, junior at North Carolina A&T University

RUTH JORDAN, B.A., Temple University, 1986.

Ever since Ruth's upbringing from when she used to live with her parents they were very hard on her about hard work so she wanted to pass that on to her kids, but she wanted them to be more free with the value of hard work.