Summary Of Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming

In Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming she wrote on the subject of her childhood. She also writes about the struggles that her and family experienced. Another subject Woods writes on is overcoming the struggles and problems that she faced as a african American during the 1960s. Racist events occurred during this time, “a brown girl named Ruby Bridges walked into an all-white school. Armed guards surrounded her while hundreds of white people spat and called her names. She was six years old.” said Woodson. She has the credibility to write about the subject of her life considering she did endure it. Woodson narrates the whole story from her eyes and ears. Woodson says, “Then I let the stories live inside my head, again and again until the …show more content…
The purpose of her writing to inform, as aforementioned, is by informing people about her life and the struggles she overcame with being a black person in 1960s, also a time of segregation. “William Woodson the only brown boy in an all-white school. You’ll face this in your life someday, my mother will tell us over and over again.” William Woodson is her father, This quote is not literally saying that she will go into a classroom full of white kids, but it is saying she will go somewhere where there are people all around her who will not like them and to think about her ancestor who overcame that. The book’s purpose is to entertain because while she tells about her life she does with lots of detail from her point of view that readers can just imagine the things that she saw. “As the switch raises dark welts on my brother’s legs Dell and I look on afraid to open our mouths. Fearing the South will slip out or into them.” Another reason the book’s purpose is to entertain is that she narrates and writes in a way that intrigues the reader. Woodson’s overall purpose for writing was to share her stories to others, tell how she overcame problems, and to tell where she came