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Eng101 Md Monirruzzaman monir Assignment chapter 4 Dreams from my father

1. In this chapter, I learned more about young Obama who was struggling to find his racial identity and through this journey he made new friends by joining African American community but failed to find his identity. Obamas interest to the black writers was mostly interested to me as he tried to find his identity through their writings. I wanted to know more about franks and his conversation was confusing to me though Franks poets and his wise sayings were interested to Obama and he learned a lot from him.

2. In the beginning of chapter four, I can find the Obama’s friend named Ray is an interesting person. He was the close friend with Obama because there were only few black people in their high school. He was two years older than Obama, but his thought seems younger than Obama. The conversation between Ray and Obama make me feel the racism is always happen in the world. Ray is Obama's first African American friend and a fellow student-athlete at Punahou Academy, where

Obama went to high school. Obama's relationship with Ray is at times contentious because Ray is skeptical of Obama's commitment to African American identity. Ray's own struggles with his race and racism are important in the memoir because they convince Obama that African American identity is primarily defined by victimization by whites. Ray is likely based on Keith Kakogawa, a multiracial friend of Obama's during his years in Hawaii.

3. Obama tried to be a basketball player because, in his father’s school there was a basketball team and in that team, there were a lot black male starter by whom Obama was inspired and by becoming a basketball player he wanted to secure his identity. Because he was black his teammates and coach did not like him. Though later he found his desire was a misconception and, later he came to know that in this world, whites always dominate the black.

4. Obama meets an older man named Frank and he is a friend of Gramps. Frank had enjoyed to some modest notoriety. Obama reads some of his work anthologized in a book of black poetry and he learned some of black people history. He was a great poet and he wrote many poems about black people, so I

can see how he thought about racism. He said that we are not going to college to get educated; we are going there to get trained. He gives many reasons to persuade Obama, so he can find his dream in college. I agree some of his reasons. Especially, Frank said, “They’ll train you to forget what it is that you already know. They’ll train you so good, you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit.” His opinion was negative but the way he means in college was true. Frank wants to tell Obama that college can teach him the rule of society. He needs to be ruthless to succeed in politics. His wise talks helped Obama to find his racial identity and he was important to him.

5. I think discovering his own identity was a difficult but important part of his maturation process. These chapters trace the increasingly complicated nature of Obama's struggle with racial identity and his relationship with father. Obama struggles, without much success, to find a happy medium that honors the

Dunhams, his Kenyan father, and the African Americans he encounters in Hawaii and at Occidental....