All Souls Essay
The book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald is a fantastic family story from South Boston that grabs your attention from the first page till the last. The MacDonald family story is told through the eyes of Michael MacDonald. He was born in Columbia Point housing project at 104 Monticello Ave, on the South Boston waterfront. He was the ninth child of Helen MacDonald. The family grew up in a black neighborhood and at this time it was an embarrassing situation.
The MacDonald family wasn’t racist, they just wanted to keep themselves out of trouble. Helen was keeping her large family afloat on small welfare checks that she received once a month. After some time she was able to pull a few strings with the help of some apartment renters in Southie to move the family down to The Old Colony Projects. The MacDonalds had moved before but this was the first time they would be in an all white neighborhood. They moved into the apartment on 8 Patterson Way and were immediately faced with issues. The kids didn’t have the same slick cut hair and top quality designer clothes they saw on the bodies of their new neighbors. The MacDonalds of all ages were being beaten …show more content…
Michael does seem Bias as to how great Southie is and the pride you can take in from being from Southie just because he believes that is what is responsible for giving him his well known strong Irish reputation. However I believe this is bias because other people hated Southie including his older brother, his grandparents, the blacks, and the media. Another time Michael uses bias is through his intense words of how people were not racist they just had to protect themselves from the blacks because if they got to close to friendly with them you could get caught up in a whole bunch of trouble. Aside from these two topics Michael seems very fair spoken throughout the whole
The book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald is a fantastic family story from South Boston that grabs your attention from the first page till the last. The MacDonald family story is told through the eyes of Michael MacDonald. He was born in Columbia Point housing project at 104 Monticello Ave, on the South Boston waterfront. He was the ninth child of Helen MacDonald. The family grew up in a black neighborhood and at this time it was an embarrassing situation.
The MacDonald family wasn’t racist, they just wanted to keep themselves out of trouble. Helen was keeping her large family afloat on small welfare checks that she received once a month. After some time she was able to pull a few strings with the help of some apartment renters in Southie to move the family down to The Old Colony Projects. The MacDonalds had moved before but this was the first time they would be in an all white neighborhood. They moved into the apartment on 8 Patterson Way and were immediately faced with issues. The kids didn’t have the same slick cut hair and top quality designer clothes they saw on the bodies of their new neighbors. The MacDonalds of all ages were being beaten …show more content…
Michael does seem Bias as to how great Southie is and the pride you can take in from being from Southie just because he believes that is what is responsible for giving him his well known strong Irish reputation. However I believe this is bias because other people hated Southie including his older brother, his grandparents, the blacks, and the media. Another time Michael uses bias is through his intense words of how people were not racist they just had to protect themselves from the blacks because if they got to close to friendly with them you could get caught up in a whole bunch of trouble. Aside from these two topics Michael seems very fair spoken throughout the whole