Blog 6: Growing Up Black

Out of the various autobiographies in "Growing Up Black", I was most interested in the autobiography from Gordon Parks from A Choice of Weapons. It seemed like all of the things that he was able to recall were all about death or had a connection with death, the fact that they're all about death isn't really interesting but because death and the idea of death had such a great impact on him that stuck with him, was the interesting part. He was able to remember some fairly fine details, which allowed me to kind of be able to actually imagine what it was the he was talking about or refering to. He did go into fine detail like what they were wearing but that wasn't that important because he was able to still set up the scene.

What I also found interesting is how he was able to always have hope and that little prayer that everything will turn out positive. An example of this is when he is talking about his cousin who murder two men and shot another; Parks hoped that his cousin wasn't caught or murdered, fantasizing that he is able to help his cousin get away from the mobs that were after him.