Brown Girl Dreaming
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- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Jacqueline Woodson is born the youngest of three siblings in an African American household in 1963, during the height of the civil rights movement. Her father, Jack, is from Ohio while her Mama, Mary Ann, is from South Carolina. Her mama lost her brother Odell before she was born.
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Mama and Jack fight often and this causes Mama to leave to the home of her parents, Georgiana and Gunnar, in Greenville, South Carolina with Jacqueline, Odella, and their older brother Hope. Eventually, however, Jack comes and begs for Mama’s forgiveness, and Mama and the children return to Ohio. After a second try, however, the couple fights again, and Mama leaves Jack for good, taking the children back with her to Greenville.
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- The children adjust to life in South Carolina. They enjoy spending time with their grandparents, and become so close with Gunnar that they start calling him “Daddy.” Gunnar works in a printing press and gardens on the side. Georgiana takes up “daywork” (housekeeping for white families) in order to make ends meet. Jacqueline enjoys South Carolina and spending time with her grandparents. Hope, on the other hand, has difficulty adjusting to the new climate and life without his father. Mama also seems discontent in Greenville, as most of her friends have moved elsewhere.
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Mama decides to move to New York so she leaves the children to go find a job and an apartment their before she brings them all to New York. Georgiana makes the children do bible study every weekday afternoon except Friday. Eventually, Mama sends a letter telling them that she will soon be back to take them to New York, and also that she is pregnant. At last, Mama arrives back in Greenville with the new baby, a boy named Roman. The family says their goodbyes to Georgiana and Gunnar and then leave together to New York City.
- They get to the apartment but leave because it's too horrible to live in. Mama's sister Kay dies. Jacqueline and Odella adjust to the school for Jehovah's witnesses. Uncle Robert moves to New York City and spends time with them. Roman gets lead poisoning and stays in the hospital. The rest of the children go to Greenville for the summer. Jacqueline makes a friend Maria who is from Puerto Rico. Jacqueline starts writing and telling stories. They go back to New York. That fall Jacqueline reads more and makes her first book. A new girl named Diana becomes friends with Maria and Jacqueline gets jealous. Maria tells her she is like family
- Mama gets the call that Robert is in prison so they visit him. Georgiana calls to tell them Gunnar is dying so they all fly to say their goodbyes. The Black Power Movement gains momentum, and Jacqueline and Maria imitate the activists in the movement, learning about it from Mama, Robert, and the television. Jacqueline’s teacher tells Jacqueline she is a writer, validating her dreams. The memoir ends with two poems in which Jacqueline discusses her beliefs and her imaginative writing philosophy.
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