Jacqueline Woodson’s novel Brown Girl Dreaming portrays how family can be a defining power in one’s life. It could be the reason one have a successful or unsuccessful life. According to the novel, “And my uncle likes the stories I’m making…Keep making up stories, my uncle says” (Woodson 175). In this text, Jaqueline’s uncle is encouraging her to tell stories although they are not true. This indicates how family can be supportive even if it looked like it is the wrong thing to do. Moreover, Jaqueline says “If someone had taken that book out of my hand said, You’re too old for this maybe I’d never have believed that someone who looked like me could be in the pages of the book that someone who looked like me had a
Jacqueline Woodson’s novel Brown Girl Dreaming portrays how family can be a defining power in one’s life. It could be the reason one have a successful or unsuccessful life. According to the novel, “And my uncle likes the stories I’m making…Keep making up stories, my uncle says” (Woodson 175). In this text, Jaqueline’s uncle is encouraging her to tell stories although they are not true. This indicates how family can be supportive even if it looked like it is the wrong thing to do. Moreover, Jaqueline says “If someone had taken that book out of my hand said, You’re too old for this maybe I’d never have believed that someone who looked like me could be in the pages of the book that someone who looked like me had a