Book talk

I took on the task of getting the extra credit in the class by going to the book talk. Before I heard the book talk, I thought it was going to be some person coming in and trying to persuade everyone to buy her book, in a way she did, but it wasn't like any other book talk that I went to. She started talking about her grandfather back in World War II and how that black soldiers were being segregated and talking about how the Cuban's were being segregated by the blacks. She also talked about her childhood, how her family has a lot of knowledge but were very poor, so it was pretty hard for her to follow her dreams, because everyone wanted her to get a job that would support herself and her family one day. But she told herself and to everyone that if you believe in something, you should go off and do and work very hard to achieve your dream. I found the talk to be very influential and very inspiring. It makes you feel that if you have a dream, just work very hard at never give up on your dream.