Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Aieasha Discussion Question 7/24
In the book Our America, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman grew up in or around the Ida B. Wells projects of Chicago, where guns, violence , and drugs consumed their neighborhood. Do you think this affected their lifestyles in a good or bad way when it was time for them to make a choice of how they wanted to live? Do you think that it matters where you come from, the projects or suburbs in order not to take the wrong road or is it one's own decision?
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I think, in particular, there are so many ways to approach this question that could lead one astray. For instance, the bad things around these boys triggered them to do good in bringing the catastrophes to light for the public. The bad aspect of this is that the boys were then put in a position in which they became quite critical of their own place and also at times hypocritical in wanting to get out but still saying that some people would not be let in. Whether it is the inner city or a suburb, children will always experience the incalcuable amount of teenage angst that surrounds each given environment. Yet I do believe that the environment often triggers certain children to act in support of opposition ot it.
There are additional questions we can ask in response to Aieasha's question because so much of what influenced LeAlan and Lloyd took place behind closed doors as well as outside of them. What kind of families did they come from? How were their families structured? What has a larger bearing on us as individuals: Our families? Our physical location & surroundings (suburbs, projects, farmland)? Our personal investments and investigations? A combination?
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