The Pact Intro

The intro to The Pact, A very great video. I like how they transform the book into a movie.

Pictures of my role models

This man is my favorite action movie hero, I have watched alot of die hard movies and the character Bruce Willis player always makes me believe that you can do anything as long you fight for what is right.

This man, Bill Gates is a genius who has made the computer world what it is today. Bill Gates is a hero of mine because he has worked most his life to bring the world into the future. Not only did he make it so everyone could have a computer in the times when a computer was as huge as a car, but he kept working till we can do things like this blog.

Martin Luther King Jr is a man who fought for rights of people of color. He was a man to lead thousands so that I could have the same right as everyone else, knowing that he could be killed for it. Mr. King is my role model for his bravery and morel code.

Oprah is a women that has worked her way up to the top of the buisness world, and she not only shares he wealth that she has earned she also workes to better the world. I admire her for the strength she most have to go from nothing to one of the richest people in the world.

8.Discuss the role models in your own life and the influence that each has had on you.

My mother and father are rold models in my life. My mother is a hard working women that cares about her family and always puts her children before anything, always trying to make life better for us and pushing me and my sister to do great thing and try our best. She has never brought anyone around us that could harm us or that would be a bad infulence, always saying that if you are a good person and work hard life will treat you right. My father was a quadriplegic, innjuryed around the time I was one years old. My father never pitied himself or acted like life had wronged him, whenever I saw my father I saw him with a smile on his face. He loved his family and would help them with anything he could, be it money or a place to stay. Many on my cousin saw him as their father and he had so many friend, and at his funeral so many people can that some had to stand. My father taught me that even if you are broken you can still live a happy life. Both my parents have taught me thing that made me into a good person and a hard worker, without either of them I have no idea where I would be.

7.How did family relationships influence these boys' lives?

Each of the boys had different family experiences, George for one had a stable kinda home with a mother who worked hard for her children. George's family could be the reason he at a young age wanted to do what is right and good in school, his lack of a father did lead him to look for male role models and luckily he had good ones that didn't lead him down the path of crime and drugs. Rameck's family was one that could have pushed him to a life of crime or drugs, seeing as his mother and father were drugs addicts. Rameck knowing about his parents addict and seeing what it did to ther could be what kept him away from drugs, seeing as all the problems that came with it may have been all Rameck need to be drug free. Sam's family was large and and the most dis functional to me. Sam's mother and father breaking up and the trouble to pay the bills after along with so many people living in the house could be what pushed Sam to hang with the wrong people. His father leaving left Sam with out a male role model, and he couldn't find one from his brothers is to me what made him search for guidance but with all the crime and drugs around him it was hard. But Reggie entracne into Sam's life did give him the strength to say no to the drugs. Even with his bad points they did have good points, like pushing Sam to do great in school and even when he was faced with lying to get out of trouble he told the truth something he learned from his mother. Each other the boys families wanted the best for them and pushed them to do great in school, because they knew that an education could be what stops the boys from having a life like their.

5. Summarize each chapter and give personal response.

 

In Chapter 4 I found that George in this chapter was in my opinion, was one of the one to focus on school be it sports or his grades. Yes he would let them drop once in a while but that was on the teacher. If they had challenged the students then George and his friends wouldn't have had those problems. It also seems that George is more of a viewer than a do things kinda guy. For example when he talks about the things Remeck did or how the only thing hands on he did was baseball with Sam. I do find it intresting that it was George that pushed the idea to go to college for free, and by doing that he changed not only his life but that of his frends.
 
In chapter 5 Rameck's life seemed so sad to me, with the people he hanged out with that lead to he getting into trouble. Rameck seemed so loyal to his freinds who in turn were only out for themselves. Peer pressure date back really far it seems, seeing as it was Rameck's friends that he so desperately wanted to impress that lead him to jail. Luckly it seems that he saw them for who they really were, instead of staying with that kinda crowd.
 
In chapter 6 Sam grew up in a dangerous place. I say this because when a man  pulls a gun on some kids for two dollars that they don't have, that place sure isn't somewhere I would want to go or have someone I love go and live. I can see how Sam's life could careen off-course with danger all around him. He would of course hang with older bad boys because to me he could feel safer with such people around him, who else would a person living in a place where you could be jumped, shot, and killed want near them. I could see that having the badest of the bad around you would seem like a shield. Sam's involvement in drugs is something else I really can't blame him for doing. With money problems and the dangerous enviroment around him, who could blame the kid for wanting to try and make life a littel easier. But unlike some people Sam knew what he was doing was wrong and he stopped the frist time, and knew that wasn't the life he wanted to live. Sam was smart enough to actually say no to drugs,and he did it with a group of people really pressuring him to do it. That to me is really brave. Sam giving in to peer pressure and doing that drug run, really spoke to me. Sam got away and could have lied about the car but didn't and him getting arrested for telling the truth said alot about his charcter.

In chapter 7 I saw how they boys started their entrance into college, fear is normal wehen starting somewhere new and many se college as a tough experience. But Carla help put the guys minds at ease, all of them getting into the same college may have really be what pushed them to go seeing as they would have someone there with them and not have to do it all alone. Getting into Seton Hall caused the three to change, from wanting to make memories together to having to end relationships with the knowlege that their lives would change, George knew this and ended a seven month relationship because he knew that this phase in his life would be important. from what I take from chapter 7 is that George from a young age didn't hang out with the wrong people and tried to do what was right and so far it has helped him stay outta trouble and now going to college and being one of three friends who have made it seems to me that he made the right choices.

Personal response to the reading

So far I have read 3 chapter and read over the three men's lives and I can truthfully say that I have enjoyed the story so far. I mean the way the three have grown up, all the hardships they have been through adds up to an intresting story. I like how the three stories show different lifestyles of black families, like how Sam had a single parent who was a hard working mother. It sinks up with my life and probably many others could say that many things Sam had to do was just like their lives. Rameck life sadden me when I read how his mother was addicted to drugs but found some happiness in the fact that when he lived with his grandmother, he had some happy moments. Georage's life is the only one I can seem to relate to, I can say my mother never had a drug problem but many women in my family have. I can't really realate to him due to his many brothers and sisters, and the fact that my mother had a education and has always been very smart as long as I can remember. The chapters I have read really make me look forward to reading more of The Pact.

Summary of this week's reading

George, Sam, and Rameck all had it tough at one point, in there life. From George's mother working hard to keep them out of the projects, Sam's father leaving his mother and them and the trouble that came with it due to his mother's lack of education, to Rameck's mother and her addictions. But as I read I saw that there were good times too, the story seem to go at a mixed pace to tell the truth. At one moment I could be reading about how Remeck had a mother addicted to drugs, and them how he lived with his grandmother and had a happy time for a while. In the story I saw many examples of black families at that time and saw some of my self in the stories I read, like how Greorge had to wake up early so his mother could take him to Miss Willie's so he could stay there while she worked. I myself had to do the same thing when I was little. So far I have read 3 chapters and Ican say I look forward to reading more.