Ok…here we go. It’s my second blog and we were told to read a book called ”What Would the World Be without  Women: Stories From The 9th Ward” written by Waukesha Jackson.  To me  the book so far is very interrelectual for such a topic.  Her writing style is so simple and understanding as if  I were writing this book myself. Waukesha Jackson gives us as readers a good introduction of her life story growing up as a child and experiences with these women in her life. My interepretation just from the first eleven pages I had to read i wanted to go on and listen to how she dealt with such emotions toward her mother and life.  I may just read on a little more.  

 Well, I was told to select one of the women who she shared her experience with and that would be her grandmother. Reason being her grandmother because she is the keyreason why Waukesha is sill here today and the woman that she wants to be and looks forward too. Her grandmother shows strengthen towards the author’s mother who is on drugs. To not let that hold her down or her family. The person who care for the author’s brothers and the author. Who shows her not to hold back what to say and how she feels in this book. Her grandmother to me is the root of her granddaughter.

You can see the author is or has become empowered by what she wrote. She seems to share these stories better as an individual. You can see this through her writing as she gets more into the book and not care about what others think. She tells it as if she was writing in her diary or some sort of book she had private to herself.  I can’t really go into how empowered she has gotten because I haven’t finish reading, but so far you can tell. In her introducton she says how she didn’t use to feel comfortable talking about her life and didn’t want others to feel story for her. But it seem to me that she’s out of that phase of hiding her true self and experiences in life. So she decided to write this book, i’m guessing. That’s all I’ve gotten so far out the book.  I’m outtie…holla