Assata Chapter 1 Summary

1. In this chapter I get the idea of why Assata is the way she is, she takes us to her childhood, she makes us see the way her grandmother practically trained her and showed her to be the independent and strong woman she is now. I like how she compares her life in the south with her grandparents and the life in the north with her mother, in the south you can tell by the chapter she learned how to work hard and be very observant person. I really like reading this chapter because I imagined myself in those beautiful places she described like the beach her grandparents owned. When she talk about her life up north we can still see some racial issues, not as bad as the south but the issues where still there. I like too how she didn’t let anyone