books by teri!

Salt’s answer: I am reading the same book as salt and as an African American as well I would have to say that my grandparents had the same struggles. But also the author suffered a great deal in her childhood because for example she heard the story of one of her dad’s friend being tortured by being whipped many times and also the painful I think the most is their enemies burned him with an iron. And she definitely have to fight for her culture also when she was even attacked by her own mom when she was slapped in the face, to me she’s fighting for her beliefs as well like when she was in class and the teacher said “what do you want to be when you grow up?” and she says “I want to be a prophet” and every laughs at her and thinks she’s crazy. That’s why I think it’s hard for her to keep up with the society that she was living in, and plus she was young so to her it was like the world should not have wars and etc..and as well I can relate to the struggles her family is having because I mean everyone has a different story so it’s hard to say it was bad.. also I’m not trying to compare my worst things to someone else’s but I would have to say that I’m pretty sure my mom can relate a lot better than I can to fighting or struggling. Because she has had maybe the not the best life from what she told me. She didn’t even get her high school diploma from her high school she got her G.E.D so I think that she may be the only person with the most struggles I’ve known.
C.J’s answer: preconceptions is when you judge something without even knowing what’s really there. My character in the book is going through a lot of preconceptions the only part I remember about one of her preconceptions is when her mom invited her neighbor/friend over with her child and the Childs dad was apparently dead when he actually wasn’t but what the author said was shocking she said “ I hope you know your dad’s dead they got him and killed him!” and she had her friend run off crying but one day they come back over to her place with the dad and she was so shocked she was expecting him to be dead, but then again the place she grew up to know she grew up to think that if someone went on “vacation” they were dead and if someone went on a “business trip” they were dead but you can’t blame her for it because it’s what she grew up to know. But at times I have made those kids of judgments where if someone is missing for over a year they most likely are dead, but now that I see it differently I understand that I can’t always think like that it’s a matter of faith and hope and to most people that’s all they have.