Monday, October 1, 2012
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All Souls is a bestselling memoir about author Michael Patrick MacDonald's life. He was born and raised in South Boston's Old Colony housing project. The story he writes about is a memoir of his life in Southie. He became an anti-violence activist in Boston and is currently still involved in helping other South Boston families involved in violence and addiction, for which he started the South Boston Vigil Group. He also started Boston's gun buy back program. MacDonald won the New England Literary Lights award, which is for stellar literary writing in the Northeast, and in 2000 the American Book Award. He is currently a public speaker varying from anti-violence and drug use, to prejudice in America. He resides in Brooklyn, New York, although he teaches a few classes at Northeastern.
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Is there anything else that might be interesting to note about the author? Do you think he's biased?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if I think he is biased. If he was I think he would still be on Southies side for everything. He is now an advocate for anti violence and I think that if he were biased, he would be trying to defend Southie's violent actions. I think in the beginning of the book when he was younger he was trying to show the reader that he was pretty much brainwashed. As a kid all you have to live off of are the examples that are laid out in front of you and I don't think he had many good examples. They were all filled with racism and violence, and that was all he could follow. It wasn't until he got older that he realized he didn't have to live the way everyone else was, and he shows the reader throughout the book that he has a good heart with all the praying he does and trying to stay out of tough situations. So I would say it's more of a brainwash than bias.
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