Title: Dreams from My Father ‘A Story of Race and Inheritance’
Author: Barack Obama
Genre: Autobiography, Life Memoir
Before Barack Obama was a Politician he was an author. ‘Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance’ is an Auto-Biography written by Barack Obama. The book describes Obama’s life in three parts, from his birth in Honolulu, Hawaii up to the final part of the book which includes his emotional and revealing trip back to his father’s homeland; Kenya. Obama’s compelling book describes the stereo-types and challenges Barack Obama faced growing up in a country (United States of America) where ‘African American’ people are largely discriminated and his will and ambition to get the chance to make a change and to make a his country and his world a better place.
In the first part of Obama’s book titled ‘Origins’, tells the reader about his close and extended family and events during his ‘early-life’. Obama was born to a …show more content…
The use of negative and positive tones in the story and how he weaves it up together makes this book special. The book also includes sections which many people can relate to, e.g. times of hardship, rejection and discrimination. The ideas like the ones I have just mentioned are described by Obama are the way it actually feels like and a prior experience of what the consequences and how costly they are. Although Obama’s hardships bothered him, he kept on persevering and tread on like a ‘true soldier’. The rewards at the end of the story speak for themselves. For many people who were in a similar situation like Obama, this story gives many people inspiration by connecting the story to their problems and how Obama’s self-belief of change and dedication helped Barack Obama, a black African American man get to become the 44th President Of the United States of