Learning Tree

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Summary: Gordon Park's "Black Boy"
Review: Anyone else read Black Boy? It's quite obvious that Gordon Parks did, seeing as how he even stoops to taking plot points from the much better book by Richard Wright. Read Black Boy instead, it is much more insightful, well written and powerful, still dealing with the same issues.

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Summary: A review of The Learning Tree
Review: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks is an insightful look at a critically important yet harsh period of time in American History. The book takes the reader through an in depth look at a community where racism and prejudice rage. No one person can begin to understand the life that Parks' characters lead. Their battle to survive racism is an invaluable lesson to most humans who have a tendency towards being prejudice.

The book centers on Newt Winger, a black boy who is coming of age. Like most boys his age he engages in some foolish and dangerous behavior that gets him into a lot of trouble. His problems as a teenager make him an interesting character. Newt is not too kind or mean and he is portrayed as only a human. His experiences are a harsh reminder to those of us who are lucky enough to live in the twenty first century of the hardships of Blacks living in the early twentieth century. After reading this book it makes anyone more thankful that we live in a society that is more tolerant of differences. This book makes you really glad to be living today. In addition it makes evryone aware that we as a society must keep prejudice and racism at bay.

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Summary: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
Review: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks shows the difficult life a black boy named Newton Winger goes through. At a young age, Newton learns how to deal with racism and prejudice, the attitude of cruelty against and individual. Growing up during the segregation period, Newt faces a lot of challenges a boy our age would not experience. Parks' attitude toward being prejudice about individuals keeps the reader to feel the anger by seeing the injustice done to his characters. He also shows that it is hard to change a point of view of an individual. During solitary confinement, a lot of misunderstandings happen and Gordon Parks shows how his characters deal with situation dealing with social issues and religion. Parks also wants the reader to understand that we live in a good world now and that everything is in peace, there are no such worries about life. Newt does a lot of activities that young teenager his age would do such as fight, argue, and on top of that go to school- which he succeeds in. By reading this book, one can understand the cruelty and injustice done to the characters and one can realize how precious life is today and we should be thankful to everyone. The Learning Tree is an outstanding book to read because it can make one think about life in the early 20th century and the 21st century today.

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Summary: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
Review: The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks shows the difficult life a black boy named Newton Winger goes through. At a young age, Newton learns how to deal with racism and prejudice, the attitude of cruelty against and individual. Growing up during the segregation period, Newt faces a lot of challenges a boy our age would not experience. Parks' attitude toward being prejudice about individuals keeps the reader to feel the anger by seeing the injustice done to his characters. He also shows that it is hard to change a point of view of an individual. During solitary confinement, a lot of misunderstandings happen and Gordon Parks shows how his characters deal with situation dealing with social issues and religion. Parks also wants the reader to understand that we live in a good world now and that everything is in peace, there are no such worries about life. Newt does a lot of activities that young teenager his age would do such as fight, argue, and on top of that go to school- which he succeeds in. By reading this book, one can understand the cruelty and injustice done to the characters and one can realize how precious life is today and we should be thankful to everyone. The Learning Tree is an outstanding book to read because it can make one think about life in the early 20th century and the 21st century today.

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Summary: J-mal "Learning Tree Review["
Review: The learning tree is a very interesting and very descriptive book . It is better than the movie. When it comes to reading the book I am glad that I did because the movie left out alot of strong points.Overall the book was very good and I enjoyed reading it.

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Summary: J-mal "Learning Tree Review["
Review: This book was a great read. The "picture taking man," as Parks was often called, crafted a finely layered novel about coming of age in the years prior to integration and the civil rights movement. The book is sad, funny, and painfully true. It is a must for anyone who wants to understand the extent to which racism dehumanizes and destroys; and for anyone who wants to understand the meaning of courage and the unbreakable will of the human spirit.