Chapter 1 and 2 of Holler if you hear me

Chapter one sentences:



1. Tupuc suggests that he is not alone in his adoration of his mother. " Ithink all young black males and all Hispanic males, all males period, but especial from the ghetto... we have a deep love for our mothers, because they usually raised us by themselves. (pg 21-22)







Analogies: the way he felt about his mother, and the bond that was there.







2. If the mother is central in black life, she also made a scapegoat for the social disintegration of black culture. (page 22)







Analogies: The mother's viewpoint about integration.







3. Alice revoked her"slave mame" and was reborn as Afeni Shakur member of the Black Panthers. (pg 24)







Analogies: Her slave name was released and later caused her to feel like a complete different person.







4. After the Ku Klux Klan imposed a ten o'clock curfew on the black and Indian communities, the Indians soundly thrashed the Klan, liberting the blacks from their fear of white supremacy. (pg 26)







Analogies: The Ku Klux Klan was trying to scare of the Indians and Black people. Their speech was basic white supremacy always rules.







5. Tupuc's father, Billy Garland, abanded his seed and left Afeni to raise him alone. (pg 30)







Analogies: Tupucs father Billy wanted nothing to do with him, so he left.







Capter 2 sentences



1. As he won fame and money, he brooked no ideological limits on what he could say and how he could live. (pg 48)







Analogies: How fame and money changes a lifestyle.







2. The Panthers' example inspired Tupuc to address racial confliicts. ( pg 53)



Analogies: He was all the great things the Panthers were doing and wanted to help himself.

3. He was surrounded by figures that lived and died the struggle for black freedom. (pg 50)

Analogies: He put himself with people who wanted the same thing as him.

4. Afeni remembers that her children inherited her sacrificial spirit. (pg 55)

Analogies: Afeni was glad that her children inherited her type of spirit.

5. Tupuc's spilt conscience reflected that confusion. Raper and actor Mos Def empathizes with the delimma. (pg 67)

Analogies: Tupucs friend Mos Def helped him through his rough confusing time in his life.