Saturday, October 19, 2013

8B: My Beloved World

“Love from others, keep me going.” This was the 6 words that I chose for my memoir after reading Sonia Sotomayor’s book, “My Beloved World.” I chose these 6 words because I have faced a lot of struggles in my life and the people around me really help me get through everything. Without the support and love from my community and friends and family. I wouldn’t make it through any struggles that I face.
While reading Sonia Sotomayor’s auto biography, she had faced some may struggles in her life as well. I believe this is one of the reasons that it was a required book for freshman to read. She was faced with poverty and the stereotype of the minority yet she still succeeded in life. I think that this is supposed to show freshman that, no matter what obstacles are put upon us, in life or in college, that we can succeed and become whatever we want, if we just put in the effort and keep our hopes high.
I enjoyed reading the beginning of the book with her struggles because I could relate to everything, maybe not that exact situation, but I could relate with the feeling of being put down and at your lowest, but having to overcome it, faced with many obstacles.

Though the end of the book might have been very well written and explained her life very well, I didn’t have the same connection as I did with the beginning of the book. I couldn’t relate to many of the things she was saying, so I felt a little more disconnected and a smaller desire to read the rest of the book.  So though it could have been very well written, I felt more disconnected, so that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much.




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