My Summer Reading Assignment

The book I read other the summer was Auto Biography of my dead brother. The author of the book is Walter Dean Myers.

Summer Reading questions

1. The main character throughout the book is Jesse. Ways I would describe Jesse is that he is a very respectful person to other people. Also, he is emotional person when it comes to his family and close friends. Jesse is very smart when it comes to his life path and making right decisions.

2. In the beginning of the book Jesse and rise our very close with each other and our basically brothers. Also the counts were all close and just a bunch of friends in a group. Almost like a get together. Towards the middle of the story Jesse doubted rise and his relationship with him because he was starting to change and talk and act different towards the counts. Then, rise talks about dealing with drugs and going to get the counts involved into drugs to make money. Lastly, in the end of the story rise has completely changed by running the counts as a gang and getting into drugs and women. Jesse isn’t very sure about being with rise because doesn’t really want to get involved but sometimes does because he doesn’t want to forget about rise. Then there is drive by’s in the hood. Then rise has died.

3. The author is trying to say that, people can change anytime. For instance it took less than a year for Rise to change into a completely different person. Also, the author is trying to say is one mistake can change your life forever.

1. One of the issues that affected Jesse was that Rise was dealing drugs. One reason, this affected Jesse was that when they were little they talked about how drugs were bad and didn’t want to ever bring that into that hood. Secondly, Jesse says that Rise’s personality is changing and his looks are changing. Lastly, Jesse isn’t sure about hanging with rise because he doesn’t want to be involved with his drug dealing.

2. The first big social issue was when Rise gave Jesse a girl and tries to set Jesse up to have sex. Secondly, When Rise order a hit on The Gang called the Diablo’s. This was very personal to Jesse because he was making the counts a gang and acting like a gang leader.