First Week's Discussion

This is the first week that we gotta blog about our books.. Ig we gotta come up with a question to have a discussion over.. but I dont really know what to discuss sicne nothing has happened yet in the book... So far the dude has just told us a bunch of random information like the fact that his mother was apparently a very strong woman, she used to work all day to support her family, and it seems like His dad wasnt much of a help. Charlie Bundrum, his grandfather, also died in 1858 at the age of fifty-0ne. His family was very poor, his mother only had one nice dress, and when they needed new clothes they would have to go to goodwill to get .25cent clothes.. one time they even had to go to the Jacksonville Dump... I think that if that was me and my family Id be unbelivably depressed & upset all the time because of that, I dont know how someone could deal with a life that is that hard.

His Father wasnt very supportive through his childhood, his dad didnt even teach him or his brothers sports, instead he learned form his mother. His mother was a woman that put her family before her-self and I belive that she did a lot to benifit her family. Rick Braggs seems to of had a very hard childhood, but he seems very fortunate to of had a Mother like his to support him.

So far this book has been going really slow, its all about small random events, and it seems to jump around a lot also, kinda like in This Boy's Life. SO far its just been about their struggle as a faimly as they struggle through poverty and loosing family members, or coming accross new problems in life.