Face-to-Face

Face-to-Face

I really like this website and what it shows. It takes many peoples points of views of people and they talk about events that their race has went through. It is very interesting to hear their stories and experiences.

            One of the stories was from a man named Khaled Abou El Fadl, he is a Muslim and he talked about the effect 9/11 had on him in his life. He said he can’t go on airplanes without people thinking he is going to cause an attack. He says that every time he reaches into his bag for a magazine, the person sitting next to him looks at him with the face of pure horror and fear thinking that he is going to pull out a bomb or cause an attack. Khaled says that since he has started wearing suits and ties on his flights it has made other passengers feel more at ease. I think that it is crazy that after so many years after 9/11 people still will judge someone on their skin color.

            Another one of the stories was from a lady named Sayema Hameed she is an American she was born and raised here. But she is still pointed out and bullied because of her race. She says that “she is scared for what is going to happen to her because her skin is brown.” No one should be called out and bullied because of their skin color. Or even for what the extremist of their religion may have done. We are all our own people, give everyone a chance and take a second and walk on their shoes because I promise you, I doubt you fully understand where they come from  or what they have gone through or what they have to go through on a daily basis.

            The Face-to-Face website was really neat and I liked seeing and hearing all the different stories of what people have gone through or go through. We are all people no matter what color our skin is.

Reading Response #3

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By John Berendt

           

            In the second half of chapter 1 I read about how Williams talks with his friend Mike Douglas a friend of his. They looked out upon Monterey Square on of Williams’s favorite squares in all of Savannah. “In my option, it’s the most beautiful of all the squares in Savannah.”

William and Douglas talked about how abused Monterey Square was when film crews came into town to shoot a scene in the square. And even after they leave they don’t clean up and Savannah doesn’t get any credit or recognition. The people of Savannah get upset by the fact that no one  really cares about their town or the people in it but the people who have lived there for a while.

 “But it really isn’t so wonderful at all. The moviemakers pay local extras the minimum wage, and Savannah doesn’t get publicity after all, because the audience usually haven’t the vaguest idea where the movies have been shot.” (Pg: 13)

 

I chose that quote because it really does shows how much disrespect the film crews have for Monterey Square, and for the people that are willing to take time out of their lives to help be extras in their movies. That picture is of Monterey Square today. I think that it is really cool that it is a real place and the author placed real events into the book.  I chose the picture below because it shows a fountain that got replaced that they talk about in the story, the film makers brought in truckloads of dirt to make that land flat in the square to make it the “perfect” scene

Reading Response #2

Reading Response 2

Midnight in the Garden Of Good and Evil

By John Berendt

“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” is a book broken into two parts. Throughout the entire story author John Berendt talks about true stories that has happened in Savannah, Georgia. I am about 20 pages into this amazing novel, and I usually don’t ever read for fun but with this book I find myself wanting to find free time all time so I can read more and more

The book opens up at the Mercer house in the Savannah’s. The Mercer house was the Great houses owned privately in Savannah. The way the author John Berendt wrote the first page I thought was great, his word choice to describe Jim Williams the owner of the Mercer house.

 “… Eyes so black they were like the tinted windows of a sleek limousine- he could see out, but you couldn’t see in.”  I think it was an interesting way to describe Jim, it helped get any idea what he looks like and how he acts. It was the first glimpse of who he is and I was pulled in and found myself wanting to find out more.

What the first half of chapter 1 really focused a party Mr. Williams threw a party and the author talked about stories about the guests that attended. The stories that were told were truly interesting, there could be a story just about the back stories of side characters. That is such a good way to keep readers in the book. 

“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” is a great book so far and I am excited about reading more.