Buck Book Review

After each book I read I usually learn a valuable lesson. One of the books that taught me a valuable lesson is “Buck” by M. K. Asante. This book taught me the true meaning of friendship, and how powerful love can be. Although the whole book taught me meaningful things, chapters thirty-three through chapter thirty-five spoke to me the most. In these chapters Asante feels numerous emotions all at once about his mother, school, and life overall. In chapter thirty-three Malo’s mother is in the hospital because she is very ill and almost died. I can tell this makes Buck feel apologetic because he says “I’m sorry, Ma,’ I keep saying” (Asante 192). He wonders if his mom was ever truly happy because he does not feel she ever was, which his mom reassures …show more content…
Malo does not like the school at all because he believes it looks like a jail and that the students look like they are “on strong meds.” This school is definitely not like normal schools to Malo because everyone calls the teachers by their first names, none of the teachers look like teachers, and “there’s a dog, Max, that lazes around” (Asante 198). Just like Malo, I had trouble getting used to my new school in North Carolina. I mostly had trouble getting used to the school because it was ancient and the staff and students were not what I was used to. The students talked with heavy southern accents and the staff was old as dirt. Every student said “ma’am” or “sir” after every sentence when speaking to a teacher, so when I did not say it the teachers seemed like they were offended, but then I realized it shows respect to older people and because my school had a lot of military students. Also, there were a few times I said the words “Jesus Christ” or “damn” and the students and teachers would look at me like I said a curse word. I did not understand it at first, but I learned these words are considered curse words in the south. My school had an animal that lazed around as well, except it was a cat named Tommy