Makes Me Wanna Holler

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Wake Up and Listen The meaning of life is to find the meaning of life. Is it not? We all go through each day trying to figure out which road out the infinite amount of paths will lead us in a better direction where happiness is prominent and society is flawless. However, not every single human being is going to fit on that narrow, one-lane highway to success. Bad choices, accidents, fate, family matters, society, temptation, anger, rage, addiction, and loss of hope can all be deciding factors in opting to choose that wrong path to self-destruction. The adverse thing is, once you've traveled so far down the road, you get so discouraged that you feel like you can never turn back or make up for the "lost time." The past is there for us to learn from and rethink how we're going to take our wide steps into the future. Ambition and determination are key elements needed in achieving your goals. Nathan McCall goes to hell and back, just to go to hell and back again in every stage of his life. But, without a doubt, he always regains strength and bounces back. Working-class families are anything but lazy. Fifty plus hours a week with an average of two to three mouths to feed and backs to cloth, doesn't leave much time left for sleep let alone family bonding. As a young child, Nathan understood one thing for sure - work equaled money and that you need money to survive, especially in the "white man's world." At age thirteen, Nathan was too young, innocent, and ignorant to the fact that racism existed anywhere and everywhere he went. Working to him at this stage in his life was just that...working. Nathan just couldn't understand why his older brothers put up a fight to go with their stepfather to Sterling Point. ... ... middle of paper ... ...ause white people benefit from the advantages they receive by just being white, they have a power to incorporate change in America to help people who are less fortunate. However, it seems as though they're all too content and it doesn't directly affect them so they find no serious need to worry. Personally, this book has exceedingly influenced my train of thought and set up different tracks in my mind to run on. After the first thirteen chapters, I definitely developed a penchant for this book and couldn't seem to put it down. Maybe listening is what more white people (since they are the majority in power of our government) have to do to better understand the surrounding races and possibly build a better society to live in. If we don't listen, how can we ever understand or even begin to feel what it's like to be apart of racially different community in America?

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