Obama Dreams for My Father
why did Barack wrote a book for his father?
Dreams for my father
Barack Hussein Obama was born in 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother was a white American girl from Kansas and his father a black man from Luo, a Kenyan tribe. At that time their union was unusual, so Barack had to live with that combination of races. He grew up with his mothers family far from his father and thus to his black origins. Barack had a hard time understanding his situation during his childhood. He was lost between two races and could not talk to his father. Although Barack was abandoned by his father, after Barack Sr death, Barack dedicated him Dreams for my Father to understand his past. In order to understand Barack’s struggle to with races it is important to consider the context in the 1970's. In fact racism was very present everywhere. No official laws were written about the differences between the blacks and whites, but there was clear segregation. The huge distinction between whites and black made the mix of the two races unusual and criticized. Consequently, Barack was in a kind of "in between". He was neither black nor white and his childhood has been marked by the fact that whites treated him differently; however, he had a hard time relating to his African peers. The African-American boy situation was comprehensible. As Barack never lived with his black family he felt more like a white but was in fact black.
Barack senior left home when Barack junior was two years old and he visited his son only once when Barrack Jr was ten years old. As a consequence Barack grew up in a white environment learning about his father only through anecdotes. Barack did not used to ask about his father, as he was accustomed to live without him. But suddenly, one day, Barack Sr decided to visit his son. Barack Junior was 10 years old and his first reaction was not plenty of emotions. He was a little reluctant to the idea of seeing his father after all that time. Consequently, the
Dreams for my father
Barack Hussein Obama was born in 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother was a white American girl from Kansas and his father a black man from Luo, a Kenyan tribe. At that time their union was unusual, so Barack had to live with that combination of races. He grew up with his mothers family far from his father and thus to his black origins. Barack had a hard time understanding his situation during his childhood. He was lost between two races and could not talk to his father. Although Barack was abandoned by his father, after Barack Sr death, Barack dedicated him Dreams for my Father to understand his past. In order to understand Barack’s struggle to with races it is important to consider the context in the 1970's. In fact racism was very present everywhere. No official laws were written about the differences between the blacks and whites, but there was clear segregation. The huge distinction between whites and black made the mix of the two races unusual and criticized. Consequently, Barack was in a kind of "in between". He was neither black nor white and his childhood has been marked by the fact that whites treated him differently; however, he had a hard time relating to his African peers. The African-American boy situation was comprehensible. As Barack never lived with his black family he felt more like a white but was in fact black.
Barack senior left home when Barack junior was two years old and he visited his son only once when Barrack Jr was ten years old. As a consequence Barack grew up in a white environment learning about his father only through anecdotes. Barack did not used to ask about his father, as he was accustomed to live without him. But suddenly, one day, Barack Sr decided to visit his son. Barack Junior was 10 years old and his first reaction was not plenty of emotions. He was a little reluctant to the idea of seeing his father after all that time. Consequently, the