No Disrespect - Entry 1

Comments:

1. The story opens up with an introduction of her mother, along with her father and the life they lived.
2. Her father was pronounced to have a disease called, epilepsy. Due to this he was unable to get jobs and provide for the family.
   
3. She also speaks of her poor and negative environment.
4. Her mother was allot different from the other women from the neighborhood. She had more class and cared for her body more than the other women did.
5. The people of the neighborhood was jealous and mad and found that she was too "stuck-up".
   

Questions:

1. Since the kids were kept in strict rules and had to stay away from the people of the neighborhood, what did they do for fun?
   
2. Children need to be able to run around and have fun in order to grow, did the fact that they were isolated affect them?
3. How about her other siblings? what ever happened to them?
4. It isn't her fathers fault that he has epilepsy, so why isn't her with the family still?
   

Words:

• ebb-A period of decline or diminution
• Perversely -willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary
• Regiment-to assign to a regiment or group

Literary Terms:

• "the black men i saw in the green coats had fought in war"- Irony
  
• "... in my bed paralyzed with fear"- Metaphor
  

Summary:

• This section was an opening to the life she had to live and the neighborhood the family had to grow up in,welfare, which was the worst possible way to grow up.