Introduction
Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father is a bibliographical book where the author represents the sequence of his reasoning about life prospects and details of it which, in fact, were concerned at some extent with the father whom the author hardly knew. The author’s deepest intentions to find out the relation between personal remembrance of life details and his genealogical identity are displayed with points on different stages of the author’s life.
In this respect it is vital to mention that as the Japanese people say: a man without a hope has no future. Thereupon, the book by Barack Obama discloses the realities of the author’s life while growing up and while thinking about his use for the society. The paper comprises the advantages and limitations of the author’s flow of thought, his manner of own life details description, and the effects which are seen nowadays in the political career of the author. The story of Barack Obama is a result of his mature evaluation of the American society throughout the outlook of personal participation in it.
Discussion
The book itself is a great narration of how the American realities were reflected in the consciousness of Barack Obama since the early childhood up to the times of his living in Chicago. The title of the book describes a great concern about his father and his genealogical roots, in particular. In this respect the author promotes a discussion about personal reflections of what happened on each stage of his life including the news brought to him in the age of 21. The uniqueness of Obama’s story is depicted in the fact that he was born when racial segregation was highly represented in the American society. Living with mother and grandparents from the age of two, particularly, the author pretends to show his own view on the problem of racism and his inheritance of two different racial unities. It is so due to the fact that his father was a pure African representative and his mother was a white woman having long history grounded in the United States and in Kansas, particularly. The need for writing this kind of book is not logical, from the first sight, because when providing political campaigns probable candidates are trying to write about the successful destiny of the country with them being in office. An impetus for Obama in writing this book is concerned with the news about the death of his father in order to underline soulful feelings of the author while confronting with such spontaneous information:
At the time of his death, my father remained a myth to me, both more and less than a man. He had left Hawaii back in 1963, when I was only two years old, so that as a child I knew him only through the stories that my mother and grandparents told (Obama 5).
Moreover, Barack Obama is personally interested in the biographical data about his background, so that to explain such success in life at the time, which then appeared to be an implementation of many African American dreams about black people being in the highest echelons of power. Barack Obama is accurate in stating his position about the issue of racial framework in the United States and personal contradictory opinion toward such unfair attitude of Americans. The issues of race and inheritance seem to be of great significance in the book, so that to illustrate that there is no drawbacks in a definite race. If a man wants to survive and achieve the tops of the life, then only his will and insistence matter.
This sort of political biography impresses with the fact that it was written with a gradual succession of actions and clear plot. It in turn underlines episodes which touch upon the inner reality of a reader’s soul and mind in terms of the author’s traits of character and his will to win. Thus, there is no problem in reading and comprehending the book. One of the observers, Erin Britton, notes: “Dreams from My Father is an unforgettable read, illuminating not only Obama’s personal journey of discovery but also the universal desire that people have to understand their history and what makes them into the people they are” (Britton para 2).
Evaluation
When looking at the structure of the book one may take into account that the main motives while writing this book were considered with the inner desire of the author, being successful at the time, to seek for the moral values related to the family and its significance for people. The need to find out the roots of genealogical individuality is shown in a form of the deepest self-esteem and confidential attitude of Obama toward the problem. The book impresses even with the fact that such direction in writing the book did not impact negatively on the launch of official political program of Barack Obama. It one more time outlined the individuality and sincere approach of the author in the urge for making changes in the American society. For a reader the book may seem as an ordinary read so that to grab more attention on the figure of the author, but, on the other hand, such position can be changed from the first lines in the text, because the book is built in a descriptive key without any complicated structures.
All stages of Obama’s life are crowned with a mere extent of success. It is particularly shown in the fact that he was a President for Harvard Law Review and joined a church in Chicago, so that to show that his moral and leadership framework is excellent. Nonetheless, the book provides not only biographical peculiarities of Obama’s life and pathway toward personal triumph. It is reckoned with the personal approach of the author to write about touching themes being so familiar for Americans. In fact, it is one more new story of an American dream and its representation in practice.
Conclusion
The book Dream from My Father by Barack Obama is interesting in how the will and desires of a man related with his race and inheritance promote the further positive outcomes in life. In other words, the book under analysis shows a reader a wide scope of problematic issues having happened in the author’s life, which helped then to clarify the identity of a man in comparison with others and his place on earth as well. Furthermore, such discourse is colored with the personal experience of the author, so while reading the book everyone may feel the events maintained on its pages personally only with the help of rightly-constructed understanding of environments within which the author grew up as a would-be successful politician.
Works cited
Britton, Erin. Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, A Story of Race and Inheritance.Web.
Obama, Barack. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004.