Never Forget

Topic: How is this book organized? Does this organization affect your ability to relate to the content of the book? This book is organized by the accounts of different people that were directly affected by the attack of 9/11. The authors lets dozens of people tell their story of 9/11. So you get different perspectives of this one event, in which each story offers you something different and new to this one event. This helps me relate to this books content in a new way. because stories like this cant be told effectively from the outside, it takes inside knowledge and understanding to truly see the impact and mark it left on history and the lives of the people affected. so because of the perspective from which it was told I was able to relate to the content a lot better, also since the stories are told in vivid detail it helped me to be able to paint a image in my head of what these people had to endure in order to make it through, since all of the stories are from survivors of the tragedy.

Never Forget

Topic: Why did u choose this book? What are your expectation for this book? Why did you expect this? How is it living up to your expectation? I chose this book because it is about September 11th and which is one of my favorite things in the past to read and learn about. I think it is because it is something that happened during my lifetime and I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it happened. I expected this book to be very powerful and meaningful but at the same time very sad. I expected to be wowed by the selflessness of the firefighters and the bravery of the survivors. I expected this because that is what I got from the many other books I have read about the 9/11 tragedy including "Last Man Down" by Daniel Paisner. This book has beyond exceeded my expectations so far, it has showed me that sometimes you do things that don't put you at risk in order to save other, but also it has showed me that you should cherish life because u never know what will happen tomorrow. That is exactly what Lois say in the introduction, when he tells of all the things that happened on September 10 and how different people felt September 12.

Starting Fresh!!

Book #7 title:
Never Forget

Author:
Mitchell Fink and Lois Mathias

Date of Publication:
2002

They had a dream

Topic: Did the book come to a satisfactory close for you and Why? I did come to a satisfactory closure for me. Archer ends with talking about the Black struggles of the time and possible struggles of the future. This sums his entire book up and brings it to the close. It makes the book a sort of time line he starts with before blacks were in America and moves to the current time,telling the story of great black men in history along the way, then he ends it with possible problems of the future and possible solutions that would help the black community. This round the book off showing that the struggles for African Americans in America isn't over, it is really just beginning, blacks have to know what they want and go for it. He ends it in a way that is ment to empower blacks. So the book has a twist and turns into something totally different than what it started as. By the end you start to really see the purpose of the book and it make the rest of the book much more powerful. Archer did a great job at ending this book, with his sort of questioning and making you stand back and look at the man/woman in the mirror.

They had a dream

Topic: What about the book kept you reading it and did this change your opinion on the topic of choice and Why? I think the one major thing that kept me reading this book was the topic that was discussed. It was very interesting to go more in depth into the story of African Americans in America. But the set up of the book was also a thing that kept me reading the book. Archer picked 4 influential men to tell the stories of in order to outline how far African Americans have come since entering this nation. All of these men stories overlap and you get to see how each one advanced the rights and abilities of African Americans. This book defiantly changed my view of the history of African Americans and also of these 4 men because I learned a lot of new things on these two topics. I learned a lot about the struggles these men faced everyday fighting for the rights of blacks and as an African American this means a lot to me because with out the relentlessness of these 4 men and so many others I wouldn't be where i am today and have all the rights that I have today.

They had a Dream

Topic: What does the writer do in the opening passages of the book to persuade you to continue reading the book? In the introduction the author starts the book off talking about his personal experience. In which he tells a story of seeing the blacks in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1941 step off the curb and into the gutter in order to let whites pass, from his discussion of this he shows you that this was something he wasn't used to seeing living in New York City. He also talks about his conversation of the account with a black and once again another response that he wasn't used to. This type of narration in the beginning show you that prior to these incidents he had no knowledge that these things were going on, because of his slightly naive nature in the beginning and his array of historical facts on the lives of the four men that fought these struggles, I became interested with his way of portraying the story and this persuaded me to continue reading the book

They had a Dream

Topic: What passage do you particularly like in the book? Why? I loved his introductory passage; "Just before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I was was drafted and sent to Camp Croft in South Carolina from my home in New York. In Spartanburg i was astonished and disturbed to see local blacks step off the sidewalk into the gutter to let whites pass....... "Just let the white man drop his whip," he said with a grim smile, "and then watch what happens." He sets up his whole book with a personal narrative and it guides your mind to see how bad the blacks really had it. Creating a path of which to lead you down throughout the whole book. I also like his inclusion of his self in a very distant topic this creates a relationship with the reader and also with the content of the book making his opinion and facts in the book more valuable and more credible. This one little passage sets up the entire content of the book and it also clearly outlines which side Archer takes on the matter.

They had a Dream

Topic: What is the authors dominate method of communication and how does this affect your relationship with the books content? Archer's main method of communication through out the book is narration. He starts the book by telling about the history of African American struggles in America. He tells different narrations and stories of the overwhelming black struggle in America at that time. He back those with biographies of for men of elaborate on the struggle. His use of narration makes the books content more real it associated a person with the struggle making the books content more compelling, it points out not only did blacks struggle, but these particular men struggled and despite all odds the overcame these set backs and fought for what was right. His use of narration creates a new dimension to the story making it more meaningful and much more powerful it associates a person with the facts and history taking the story to a deeper level.

They had a Dream

Topic: Why did I choose this book? What were my expectations for this book? Is it living up to my expectation? I choose this book for two reasons; one was my need for a non-fiction book and the other was because African American history is very interesting to me usually when I look into African American history I always learn something new. Based on the cover, the year published and the synopsis inside the book I didn't expect the book to be boring but I did expect the language to be more like a textbook than a story. This book is in no way boring the author does a great job of picking facts that get the job done but at the same time keep the story alive. The content is interesting and the language that it is written in inviting, the author is talking to you as apposed to talking at you, the book takes you on a journey through time and the author is you tour guide and this is a great strategie to keep the reader engaged.

New One!!

Book #6 title:
They Had a Dream

Author:
Jules Archer

Date of Publication:
1993