So far reading Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson, has been a big change from what we have been reading in class up to this point. Segregation seems to be the main theme of the book as it takes place in the 1960’s during the civil rights movement. As readers we hear all about how Jacqueline and her family are treated differently because of their race. Not knowing how old Jacqueline is going to be by the end of the book, makes me wonder if these segregation conditions will get any better for her as the story progresses.
For the first 138 pages of the book, Jacqueline describes her life up to 5 years old. Aside from segregation, I wonder if another big theme of the book will have to do with her father or how he treated her mother. We don't really know what kind of guy her father is, or why her mother left him. We know that Jacqueline’s brother, Hope, said that she is too young to remember them fighting. We also know that the man doesn't want to move away from Ohio for some reason.
The last few pages of this first section of the book talk about how the family is moving to New York. They are currently living with their grandparents in Greenville, South Carolina. From what I can tell, the grandmother is really going to miss the kids, and I worry for her and her sick husband. The grandfather has been doing a lot of coughing and he is really sick right now in the story. To me he seems really nice and caring and I would hate to see something bad happen to him. There has not been a huge climax yet in the story, so I am interested to see what happens.
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