NO DISRESPECT
By: Sister Souljah
Comments:
1. Everyone should receive a high school diploma to work and not rely on a man who tries to control the way you live.
2. People who live in the projects are really not all bad but it;s true when they say that it's basically a mother with their kids trying to survive life.
3. The girl is making something out of herself even though the stuff that surround her keeps it hard to concentrate but she doesn't want to end up like her mother that she truly loves.
4. The American world can really change somebodies personality and beliefs about the world. Like the mother she gave up on everything and started using drugs and being and breaking up with different men.
5. The mom decided to fix all her problems by turning white and not being who she was before but the girl was lucky to have 17 years of her real mother not no new copy something a lot of kids don't experience in their lives.
Questions:
1. Why do men like taking over be the boss?
2. Does every mother who doesn't got a man or job take welfare?
3. Why does her mom think that looks is the only way to get people's attention?
4. Why doesn't the girl not like white people?
Vocabulary:
1. Solely: to the exclusion of all else or others pg.5
2. Tyrant: an absolute ruler who exercises power cruelly and unjustly pg.29
3. Clashes: fight or argue pg.49
Literary Terms:
1. "She was, however, unmistakably beautiful, and she would use her looks if she thought she had to." Indirect Quotation pg. 7-8
2. "Then I heard some paper and plastic tearing like a candy wrapper or something." Simile pg.38
Overview Sentence
1. A family of four kids and a mother that seeks the help from men using her looks to try to survive the bad conditions of her economic problems. The girl is the only one who really puts up with everything and is the only one who really sees the problems they have and puts mind to it.
