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This 3 page paper uses President Barack Obama’s book “Dreams from My Father” as springboard to explore how his parents and others helped him achieve success. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and painful growth of the man who is now arguably the most powerful in the world. This paper uses the book as a springboard to explore how his parents and
others helped him achieve success. Discussion Although the original prompt for the essay is to consider how his parents helped him become successful, the book suggests that that subject
is unworkable, for two reasons. First, his father was absent for much of his childhood, so his influence on the young Barack seems to be as a sort of figure
of myth and legend, rather than as a real person. And second, while his mother was influential, his grandparents are also vitally important here. In fact, Barack Obama seems to
be something of a sponge, absorbing everything he could from everyone he met. And through it all, he struggled to try and define himself as a young black man in
America. Its not surprising that he is confused about his identity and whose model he should follow. His mother is white, a girl from Kansas and his father in black,
a Kenyan (Obama, 2007). His grandparents, with whom he lived a good deal of the time, are white (Obama, 2007). He grew up, for much of his childhood, in Hawaii,
a state where the races mix freely and easily and where his mixed heritage didnt seem to be much of an issue (Obama, 2007). But then his mother remarried, an
Indonesian named Lolo, and they relocated to Jakarta (Obama, 2007). Here, the young Barack found himself in a society where he confronts the spectacle of naked power, and its abuses
for the first time in his life (Obama, 2007). He sees that blacks are subordinate, and that the wealthy elite has the power to keep them "in their place" (Obama,
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