Dj Rising Book Report

DJ Rising is the debut novel of author Love Maia. This book is about a boy named Marley Johnnywas Diego-Dylan. Marley is a sixteen-year-old boy who has to deal with a heroin-addicted mother, bills to pay, and a full scholarship to a private school to uphold. Along with that, he has a dream, a dream to DJ at the Fever, and elite club where the DJ is the biggest celebrity. When he is cordially invited to the Fever’s First Annual DJ Battle, he feels like he has one last chance to prove to his father up in heaven that he can rise above all the evil he has been surrounded by for a good majority of his life. Everything comes crashing down, though, when Marley’s mother overdoses on heroin after a thirty-day sober period of quitting cold turkey. He continues on with his dream, though,
Hawk is a man who has lots of enemies and does not make friends easily, but when he would be mixing beats with Marley, they would both loose themselves in the music, not judging each other because of age, ethnicity, or even skill. All that mattered when they were playing music was the music itself, and that broke the barriers of teacher and student when they worked together. Rivalries are not something that comes into one’s mind. All that matters is music, and all barriers are broken when music is in the air. Besides this book, though, this quote has also been conveyed with a subject other than music, and that is in the movie Remember the Titans. Secondly, Remember the Titans was an extremely memorable movie for anyone who has watched it, and it conveys the thoughts of this quote perfectly. This movie is about a white school and a black school integrating, and a football team coming together to form one, strong team instead of a segregated, weak team. The first example of this quote applying to this movie was in the characters themselves. When going to football camp, the black players had been sitting on one side of the bus while the white