Book Report: Dreams from my Father

 Dreams from my father is a (non-fiction) book by Barack Obama. It's about Obama's life story, written when he became a senator. It's pretty long, but it's a good book!  I shall go on and begin the posting of larger sentences in the next paragraph. (Warning: No spoilers, because it's not fiction.) Boom:

The book starts with him being 21 years old, and just getting the news that his father died. He doesn't know exactly how much he lost because his father was more not there then there. He goes on to talk about how all the info he's gotten about him being from his grandparents and mother, and how he's barely seen him in person.

The next part is about him realizing how blatantly racist America is, and about his mother's second marriage with another man, and how moving to the separate area was different from what it was in Hawaii. He also talks about how quickly and dangerous it is to fall out of power. He also talks about previous life experiments.

The following part is about his teens and the clubs, groups, and his life in the gutter during the time period. He'd gotten drunk in the past, went on drugs, but managed to stop himself before getting addicted. He went and slowly pulled himself up, to the point where some friends talked about how boring he'd gotten.

The final part is how he managed to become part of a group and get some problems solved, but not enough and not fast enough. He also relates visits from his sister and cousin, both of which seem to have gone in separate tracks. He decides to visit his sister in Kenya, and  learns about his father's life, how he himself got into the gutter and pulled himself up, and how he went on to become successful.

D-O-N-E.

Adventure Van, out.