The book Brown Girl Dreaming is set up differently then any other read I've had. The book is set up as poetry style, so every chaperone and page is like a bunch of poems that fit together as a story. It was claimed that it's not hard to understand but for this being the first time seeing something like this, it was a little challenging for me to put it all together. It still is a story, but it sounds like a poem and is in a poem format.
So far the book starts off with an african american girl named Jacqueline who was born in Columbus Ohio. The story goes on talking about the life she lives in Ohio and her family that lives down south. Jacqueline's parents get a divorce and her and her mother move down south to South Caroline where extensive detail continues about the hardship of the life an african american has to live during this time period. This book opens up the eyes to readers who can live in the moment of an african american in the 1960's and experience the difficulties and realities faced everyday. For me, not so many questions are thought of while reading this, I kinda just continued to move page to page in disbelief for this time period. There is one part in the book that talks about an african american man working at the printing press with many other white people working by his side, and at the end of the day, all the mens hands are so black from the ink that if you only looked at their palms you wouldn't know who's white and who's black. This just amplifies the fact that we are all human no matter what skin color we are, we all have the same bones. So why are people treated differently?
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
http://www.jacquelinewoodson.com/category/books-ive-written/middle-grade-titles/
http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/304851/brown-girl-dreaming-by-jacqueline-woodson/9780147515827/