In the book “Dreams from My Father”, Barack Obama wants to live in a world where they were not judged by the color of their skin, he talks about their life experiences from his childhood and how challenging it was just to get by. In the first chapter, we learn how Barack Obama was raised by his mother and grandparents and how his father was not really in most of his life. Even though his father was not in his life, there are great things said about him, for example how his grandpa was saying his dad would be able to handle any situation. Barack Obama’s father was always getting praised but they never talked about how he walked out his life and left him without a father just stories of a man he never met. Barack tried changing reality. He believed that he could change the corrupt minds of some people. He would always try to be nice to others even though he was getting disrespected left and right.

My favorite passage in the reading was when the grandpa said, “Everyone was in a festive mood, eating and drinking to the sounds of a slack-key guitar, when a white man abruptly announced to the bartender, loudly enough for everyone to hear, that he shouldn’t have to drink good liquor “next to a nigger.” The room fell quiet and people turned to my father, expecting a fight. Instead, my father stood up, walked over to the man, smiled, and proceeded to lecture him about the folly of bigotry, the promise of the American dream, and the universal rights of man. “This fella felt so bad when Barack was finished,” Gramps would say, “that he reached into his pocket and gave Barack a hundred dollars on the spot”. I found it cool how even though with his father getting disrespected he calmly walked over and explained their differences. Nowadays people would fight instead of talking out their differences. It also shows how good of a speaker his father really was, in the end the guy gave him a hundred dollars and paid for their drinks because he finally understood how wrong he was.