Presentation: Barack Obama “Dreams from My Father”

Barack Obama Dreams From My make-A Story of Race and Heritance forthwith I want to introduce you United States President Barack Obamas first memoir, dreams from my scram. It was first published in July 1995 as he was preparing to launch his political career and republished in August 2004. Author Since my intelligence is an biography I wont tell you everything about the author, I just will give near per give-and-takeal circumstances about him. Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama Senior and Ann Dunham. In 1991, Obama graduated from Harvard police School.While in law school he worked as a co-worker at the law firms of Sidley & capital of Texas where he met his wife, Michelle, whom he married in 1992. Barack and Michelle Obama have two daughters Malia Ann and Natasha, known as Sasha. On November 4 2008, Obama won the presidency of the United States. The inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President took place on January 20, 2009. On October 8 of last year, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Characters Paternal Family The Obamas are members of the Luo, Kenyas third-largest ethnic group. Hussein Onyango Obama Barack Obamas paternal grandad Habiba Akumu Obama Barack Obamas paternal grand commence and the second wife of Hussein Onyango Obama Barack Hussein Obama Senior He is the father of Barack Obama. Visited his son only for mavin single prison term. In his memoir, Barack calls him the Old Man. Kezia Jane Her sister, Jane, is the Auntie Jane mentioned at the very start of Dreams from My Father when she telephoned President Obama to inform him that his father had been killed in a car accident. Ruth NdesandjoBorn Ruth Nidesand, in US, Barack Obama senior s third wife Maternal Family Ann Dunham Mother of Barack Obama. His mother is open minded, idealistic, naive in one sense, world-wise in another. Stanley Dunham is the grandfather of Barack Obama. Stanley and his wife Madelyn raised Obama in Honolulu, Ha waii. His grandparents love him unconditionally. He learns his grandfathers strengths and weaknesses, but never genuinely comes to see him as the father figure hes seeking. Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham Barack Obamas maternal grandmother. Lolo SoetoroStepfather of Barack Obama, born in Indonesia, Obama speaks fondly of his step-father, and learns some(prenominal) animation lessons from him, but unfortunately his mothers relationship with his step-father doesnt last. Plot 1. Origins 2. Chicago 3. Kenya Epilogue Barack Obama, the current narrates a heart-rending narration about his personal implications tribulations in the American society, and his fathers roots. Ad 1. The story opens up in New York, where he hears that his fathera figure he knows more as a apologue than as a bithas died in a car accident.Two years later after indulge Obama was born, his father won a scholarship to continue with studies at Harvard University. And so, Obama Senior left Hawaii, went to Harvard, separa ted from his tenuous family and, was divorced by Ann. He completed his studies and returned to Kenya to take up a senior job at the department of national planning. Baby Obama never saw him until more later. As a young boy, his mother marries a man from Indonesia and they go to live there. His mother sends him back to Hawaii to live with his grandparents so he can attend a prestigious Hawaiian school, as one of only three faint students there.Obama has one encounter with his father when hes ten in Hawaii. Obama is a little adored, a little overwhelmed by his fathers visit. Nevertheless his father doesnt stay very long and leaves Obama with more questions than answers. Ad 2. Propelled by a desire to understand both the forces that shaped him and his fathers legacy, the book and so moves on to moves to Chicago where he works as a fraternity organizer. Its challenging work that is seldom rewarding, but Obama gives it his all. Then a relative from Kenya, his aunt Jane, calls to tel l him his father has died, but Obamas not sooner sure how to feel about that or how to react.Several weeks later, his Kenyan half-sister, Auma, makes contact with him. Auma gives him a sneak peek into his fathers life in Kenya. Obama is fascinated by the life Auma leads and wants to learn more about their father. Before he leaves community organizing to go to Harvard Law School, he makes arrangements to visit Auma in Kenya and TO TRACE THE ROOTS OF HIS FATHER. Ad 3. In Kenya, Obama discovers a family he didnt even know. His father had at least four wives, and Obama has a slew of brothers and sisters who are animate in their fathers shadow.Obama and Auma visit with one their grandfathers wives, Granny. She tells Obamas father story to him. The story Because Onyango wanted his son to be supportd as best as possible as for opening up a good future, his father current a scholarship in economics through a special program which offered Western educational opportunities to outstanding Kenyan students. Following Obama Sr. enrolled at the University of Hawaii where Obama Sr. married Ann Dunham, though she would not find out that her new husband was already married to a pregnant wife until much later.Ann quit her studies to care for the baby, while Obama Sr. completed his degree, leaving shortly thereafter to study at Harvard University. While studying at Harvard, Obama Sr. met an American-born teacher named Ruth who he married after divorcing from Baracks mother. After a while Obama Sr. published a paper entitled Problems Facing Our collectivism harshly criticizing the concept for national planning. This conflict with President Kenyatta destroyed his career. Following he was fired from his job, was blacklisted in Kenya, and began to drink.He had a serious car accident, spent almost a year in the hospital, and by the time he visited his son in Hawaii, when Barack was ten years old. Obama Sr. s life fell into inebriation and poverty, from which he never recovered. Obama Sr. later lost both legs in another automobile collision, and after lost his job. He died at the age of 46, in a third car crash in Nairobi. From then on, Obama realized that the man he thought to be a failure was in fact a hero in his village. His father was the first person to have gone to the US University from his village.Then, Obama forgave his father and decided to change his life basing on his fathers dreams. Themes Racism Throughout the whole book the main character is faced with Racism. From early childhood he had to struggle with students that teased him when he was performing with one of the three black kids. Even in Kenya, when he and some of his family members are at a restaurant, the waitress who is black, ignores their orders and doesnt serve them after she has seen European tourists who are white. Search for community As a young adult, Obama set off in search of community and purpose, with the reat role models of the civil rights movement. The glory days of th e civil rights movement were long gone when Obama gets an organizing job in a poor neighborhood on Chicagos South Side plagued by crumbling public housing, disappearing manufacturing jobs, and rising crime. The groups founder is a Jewish man who is not fully trusted by the community. At the same time Obama makes personal connections. He becomes tightfitting with the three middle-aged African-American women who are core to the organization, and develops a friendship with an eccentric, pot-smoking Catholic organizer.He looks out for Kyle, the teenaged son of a volunteer who is in danger of getting into trouble. One of the most moving bits in the book where Obama tells the group he is headed off to Harvard Law School, and promises his friends in the neighborhood that hell be back. Search for family and identity element Feeling out of place in high school, Obama gravitates toward the black kids and works to embrace an African-American socialisation that matches others expectations of his appearance, but is different from his upbringing and background. A trip to Kenya before law school is an opportunity for discovery.Obama grew up with an idealized vision of his father, which both intimidated and inspired him. As he gets to know his African family, he finds out that his fathers life was more complex and less perfect than the idealized image. In Kenya, Barack Junior finds a family that is loving, close, and welcoming but surrounded by problems feuds, alcoholism, and poverty. The stories that Obama hears on his trip make things more complicated, not simpler. The stories provide context for the personality flaws, passions, that which are more meaningful, more admirable, and more forgivable, than a shallow but mendacious idealized image. The Limits of Organizing After a series of infamous defeats, the persistence, skill and empathy of Obamas group begins to pay off. They organize violent death for the housing project, job training for the neighborhood, mentorin g for school kids. But in the end, during a public forum where the neighborhood people demand basic maintenance for public housing projects, the bureaucrats explain that the Housing Authority figure allows a asbestos removal, or basic repairs, but not both. So as you can see, one vitiated person cant change everything without reaching some limits.