Week 2/9-13

On this week of school, we were focused on beginning the book the Kaffir Boy. Let's be honest this is one the only books that I actually read from the four years here. This book was really easy to get hooked into because there were many situations where you could almost feel what Johannes felt. Overtime in the book, it's really interesting to be able and compare you're own life to his. They are completely different worlds. In this book, I had a hard time believing many things that would happen. Especially things like the officers beating Johannes when he was 6 or like the shit men making him stand in the shit when being so young, even though he was making fun of them. It was also even weird to read about a culture that differed so much from our own. One thing I did take from this book that I could connect back was the fact that Johannes mother was always did everything that she could for her children and at the end of the day I think from all cultures, parents always strive for everything for their children.