This book talks about many things that goes on within the urban community, such as, death, coping, police, family, etc. This book made me think of the movie Hardball, which it is about a gambler that takes a job teaching a little league team in the Chicago Housing Authority League. This movie looks into the lives of these boys and how hard their life is. There was a scene in the movie when one of the younger players was shot in a drive-by shooting. This scene made me think of how the kids growing up in the inner city must have lost a lot of friends and family from drive-by shootings and shootings period.
There was discussion about Police Brutality within the second half of the book. This topic is very important in today's society, because there are so many situations where people are being shot by police officers and nothing is being done about it. Quintonio Legrier was a college student that was shot six times by a police officer. This is becoming sad because this is happening everyday and no one is taking responsibility for their actions, and their is no justice being served to these police officers that are committing these crimes.
Everyday these kids go through many obstacles just because of where they live and the book There Are No Children Here is a very good example of their obstacles.
Lashay, I really like this blog post! I think your connection to the movie Hardball was a good direction to go in, but I think that you could have said a little more about how it connected to the book. I also really like this last picture that you use, but I would have explained what exactly is happening there because everyone might not have had a chance to see that episode or they might not remember what exactly was happening. The captions are also a little hard to read, so maybe zooming in on the picture a little more could help with that. Other than those two things, I really enjoyed reading your post. I like how you connected the book to Quintonio, but again, it might have helped just to explain who he was and what exactly happened to him so that your readers fully understand the connection to the book. I like the article you chose on Quintonio, I think it helps put into perspective the point you were making about the violence that young kids of color have been seeing in their neighborhoods. Overall, I think your blog post really reflects the thoughts and feelings you had while reading the book, nice job!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I haven't seen the movie Hardball, but it seems like you made a good connection between the reading and the movie. It seems to come up short information-wise, but your blog is written very well. With that though, I think you could have expanded a bit more on the content of both the book and the discussion. I wish you would have added more of your own insight or an experience you've gone through or witnessed or related it to a viewpoint on other current events or past events in the media. Nonetheless, I think the examples you did give were pretty creative and relate very well to the content of this week's topics and show that you have an understanding of what we are discussing in class. I agree with Staci's comments as well.
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