And Our America Movie Analysis

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In Our America movie And Our America book They have differences. But , they was A very big difference was that David Isay tried to transfer Lloyd to a new school so Lloyd can do better in school And so Lloyd won’t end up on the streets but they wasn’t not trying to let David transfer Lloyd to new school .Because they said he did not work hard enough for him to get into another school . And DIvid and and Ms.Williams the principle had problems with each other the ghetto 101 tape because She said it only shows the negative of their life and not the opposite and said that David Isay is just trying to use them to tell the world something that wasn’t true but that isn’t true Lloyd and LeAlan told the truth about their life wasn’t in the book but

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