Brothers and Keepers

"Crack cocaine and sentencing disparities"

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"Crack cocaine and sentencing disparities"

Introduction

John Edgar Wideman was born on 14th June, 1941, Washington DC. He is an American writer. During his childhood, he spent most of his time in the Homewood black community-Pittsburgh. Since his childhood, he wrote most of his stories while he was in Pittsburgh. After getting educated from the University of Pennsylvania, he stood the second African American to win the esteemed Rhodes scholarship to the Oxford University. He got his graduation degree in 1966. He is the winner of several literary awards; he is also the first one to obtain Pen/ Faulkner Award two times: first one in 1984 for “Sent for you yesterday” and the second one for “The fire in Philadelphia” in 1990.

John Edgar Wideman has written a lot of books, and his book “Brother's and Keepers” manifests the concept of narrative representation, which is only comprehensible when someone identifies that his work and writings report further through the beliefs of African American. The tradition of storytelling which includes bond between histories, myth, and folklore are in synergy."This book's style, words, voices that compose it, are born of the effort I made to capture what has begun between me and my brother four years ago: the desire came to us from talk about our lives. He has explained the story of his brother in his own words.

For the history of my brother Robby, I went to see him in prison and listened to what he had to say. I took notes and then some time later, having digested his words, but before they disappear, I found out to write down what I learned.

I have read many books on prisons and prisoners, chatted for hours with members of my family, studied the records of trial, and the clippings and police reports to inform, and support the facts. Without denying the contribution of these sources, I assume full responsibility for this story - which combines memory, imagination, emotions and reality - which reconstructs the tragic chain of circumstances that caused the death of a young man and threw three more in prison for life.

Discussion

The main purpose of reviewing this book was just to assess the impact of an older brother on his younger brother. The use of drugs in view of peers and parent power. It took me three weeks to read this book. In fact, it is broken down into three parts and is the first part that made ??me very afraid. I have always lived in a world where all external attacks were made ??less meaningful in my life from the quiet and peace that we could feel at home. The anger of the people I do not know. Disputes yes but not the anger expressed at the John Edgar Wideman. That an author, well-known black American, from what I read on the Internet. He was raised in the black ghetto of Pittsburgh. He "escaped". Today he is a university professor, lives with his white ...