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 * __DREAMS OF MY FATHER WEEK 2__**

How was Obama's relationship with his mother different then his father's?
 * __Questions/Discussion__

How did moving affect Obama and his education?

How is life overall impact affected Obama?

__Literary Luminary:__** - "Only Malcolm X's autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new uncompromising order, martial in ts discipline, forged through sheer force of will." (86)

- "I tried to imagine the Indonesian workers who were now making their way to the sorts of factories that had once sat along the banks of the Calumet River, joining the ranks of wage labor to assemble the radios and sneakers that sold on Michigan Avenue." (183)

- "This process of displacement, this means of engaging in self-criticism while removing ourselves from the object of criticism, helped explain the much-admired success of the Nation of Islam in turning arouind the lives of drug addicts and criminals." (199)


 * Connections**: One instant where I felt a connection between me and the book is the separation of Barack's parents, and ultimate death of his father. From the way he describes it, Barack makes it seem as though he never truly knew his father as well as he wanted to. This arose feelings from my past, when my grandmother died. I never truly knew her, and she died when I was only five. However, in Barack's case, it's worse, since his father didn't just die, he was killed. Overall, I think Barack's past traumas contributed to his strength and success in the future.