Spellbound Book Report

The book I chose to read for my book report is called Spellbound by Janet McDonald. The plot starts with Raven living with her mother in the projects in New York City. Raven had a baby at sixteen and had to drop out of high school to take care of her baby boy, Smokey. She wants to be better than another high school dropout, project girl with few prospects. She wants to do it for her mother's sake. Her baby's sake. And for her own sake. She wants to show the ambition she has inside of her and to do well and go to college or even get a high school diploma. Raven’s older sister has finished high school and gone to college. Dell even has a job at a law firm working as a paralegal. On Sundays, Dell comes over to go to church and eat dinner with her mother and sister. She introduces to raven to a spelling bee competition being held
Some people think that everyone in the ghetto projects is uneducated and dumb. Even though some of the residents in the projects have a very low income does not mean that they have little or no education. Even though Raven's story is fictional, people have had the same experience of getting back up and starting over fresh. I think that people of the Caucasian race have stereotypes about them also. People think that all Caucasians are wealthy. There are as many wealthy Caucasians as there are blacks. There are many Caucasians that are also poor and do not have money.

It is extremely necessary for everyone in the world of different cultures to accept the other cultures and races. In America, we are a melting pot. We put millions of people of different races and cultures together and everyone is a part of that. I do not like it when people make rude and nasty comments about another race or culture. It really bothers as to why people are as ignorant and uneducated as to not accept everyone as a human being. Everybody is different but we are all the