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Summary: Gritty and real
Review: I haven't finished "Finding Fish" yet (I'm about three-quarters of the way through), but I was compelled to write this review anyway. I am an avid fan of memoirs, and "Finding Fish" is the most indescribably sad books I've ever read. Antwone Fisher's hardscrabble life, so lacking in the simple pleasures and creature comforts such as love and affection, is almost painful to read; as you turn the page you'll find yourself hoping that this will be the paragraph where his life begins to take a turn for the better. What you get instead is continuous accounts of cruel, heartless treatment which starts from the time Antwone is a toddler and last into his young adulthood. Fisher recounts his life story with the same emotional detachment that must have been necessary for him to survive his childhood surroundings, but as you get further into the story you realize that he doesn't need to "dress up" is words. The power of his pain does not need embellishment. Be prepared to cry as you read this book, but also be prepared to feel joy for and pride in Fisher for struggling through, perserving, and ultimately finding success. This story will make you take stock of your own life and feel grateful.
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Summary: Fish
Review: The book is about a young African American boy named Antwone Quenton Fisher whose mother had him when she was incarcerated. After he was born, he was sent different group homes until a family finally came to get him. His foster parents were an African American family named Mr. And Mrs. Pickett. The Pickett's would verbally and physically abuse Antwone along with the other foster kids. Mrs. Pickett, who made the kids call her Mu-deah, told Antwone that she would cut off his penis if he urinated in the bed again. When he was about seven years old, his babysitter would get him and her undressed and make him do all kinds of nasty things to her when they were alone. Mu-deah would call all of the kids nigga and each of them knew whom she was calling by her tone. She would tell Antwone, "Don't nobody want you, when your mom got out of jail she didn't even come to see you so she didn't want you either."
I liked the book a whole lot because it touched me in a way that almost made me break down in tears. Even after all what happened to him in the past, he still had his head making things possible for his self. It was sometimes in the book where I got little angry because I don't think anyone should be treated that way. I recommend this to all ages old enough to read and understand what is going on in the story because It will move you in a special way. The age group I definitely recommend it to be is fourteen to nineteen because in this day and time, people really don't appreciate what they have. No matter how bad off you are, there is always someone that is less fortunate than you are.
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Summary: Who cried for the young black little girl
Review: I enjoyed this movie it really touch my heart. I first watch it at the movies when it came out on video I ran and got it. I watch it every time it comes on cable also and when it don't outside my other favorite shows it is also watch on sundays I call it my Sunday After Church Movie. This movie reflexs on the life I had growing up as a little girl, but I was raised by my grandparents and at the age of 6 I was rape, my mother on drugs, and molested by my uncle. This movie really touch my heart so much. I am just happy that the real Antwone Fisher found his true family although his mother abandoned him I am sure she stills love him the same. If this memo or review every reach the real Antwone Fisher, just would like to tell him to keep his head up always and may God Bless him forever more.
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Summary: finding fish: an emotional journey
Review: For those who have read the book it is a good read. There are some parts that will piss you off. The book is excellent for people who just like a good read or redaing in general.
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Summary: Mind Blowing
Review: "Finding Fish" was the best-suited title for this book. Antwone Quenton Fisher walks us through his road to self discovery through a variety of paths he comes across until the end of his book where the protagonist, and author has finally "found" himself. This moving memoir is for anyone. I didn't find anything wrong with the book, honestly. Whether you're interested in a certain genre, or author, European culture, or whatever, you name it - this book is still for anyone. It's not a redundant diary or a self -indulging autobiography, it's a memoir of an incredible man's lifetime achievements in a far from simple life. This book taught me that there is no easy way out in life. I realized that our hardships cannot be scapegoats. If someone can endure sexual, physical and mental abuse, grow up poor, have no one to turn to, can't use school as an escape, joins the navy as a way out and still comes out a successful screenplay writer and a husband and a father, than others who have it easier have no excuse. Fisher's foster brother grows up under the same circumstances however ends up drug addicted, angry, desperate, in teen juvenile homes and later in jail for crime, so we come to acknowledge that your life is what you make it in the end. You are in control of your future, not "fate" or "destiny" but the most powerful force of all, yourself and your will. What I think is important to point out is that any book with as traumatic and touching a plot will be interesting, furthermore, good. However, there's that extra component to a book that makes it jump from good to remarkable. Fisher without a doubt, extremely adequately fulfills this. Whether you're crying or laughing or feeling pity or pride for Fisher, he's getting a reaction out of you. Through his story, his words, you are feeling emotion and this made the book page by page, mind blowing. There were moments where I was at a loss of words for how stunned I would be at the fact that this story is unbelievably true. This book is for anyone who has been through hard times and gotten through them, for anyone who can relate to having a difficult life but still ends up successful, for anyone who can use the inspiration of courage, for anyone who wants to read a story of sentimental braveness that will not soon be forgotten.
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Summary: From a rugged beginning........a memoir of human development
Review: One must admire Antwone Fisher. When reading this book, the narrative tone is one of a self-focused strong man, who overcame his demons. You learn of his rough upbringing in a foster home with parents who showed love (you must look hard for this, as did Mr. Fisher) in ways that most cannot imagine. These sections are the most interesting in the book--if only for the true real-life horror of them. The reader sees what young Antwone goes through and what happens to friends and co-foster siblings along the way....AND what happens to Antwone--how he survived. The personal demons and pain that Mr. Fisher overcame are not necessarily overt (nor is it our business). He hints at them but tells us how he gets through it with internal strength. He shows us more of what he'd been through....basically dysfunction (no Christmas gifts, no celebrations, no individuality in his foster home, no joy ) His methods of compensation include art, writing, music, the navy, therapy (not a main focus, but an important one) and working through relationships with the aliens in his world known as human beings. All of these elements are used in relation to the shy person who had to stay in a shell with a teflon interior in order to overcome his difficult background and experiences. Bravo to the author and the emotions that it unveiled.
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Summary: an unusual find
Review: This book reminds me of a blend of classics such as the Native Son, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and the Color Purple. The story is told by fish from a child's perspective, therefore many of the details become almost humorous as we picture the behavior of adults as they hypocritically abuse Fish and his brother while professing a transparent reverence to God. The sprit of Finding Fish is similar to a Tree Grows in Brooklyn: the protagonists were both resilient children, who survived abuse.
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Summary: I liked this book.
Review: In the 1950s, Cleveland Ohio was a proud place that was a brand name city, a family city, a ball city, and a city that was filled with the entertainment of jazz music, gospel music, doo-wop music, blues music, and the music of the symphony. It was already a big city at this time, and it was on the way to becoming the fifth largest city in America. There were thrift stores, barber shops, record shops, clothing, shoe, and liquor stores. It seemed like a happy city to a lot of people, but living in Cleveland wasn't easy because the temperament, weather, and work were harsh to a lot of people.
Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions ever since his birth in prison to a single mother. After a while, she decides she doesn't show any interest in caring for him anymore, and she starts looking for foster homes for her son to live in. Baby Boy Fisher goes to live with the Pickett family in Glenville Ohio, and that's when his terrible new life begins.
When he comes to live with the Pickett family, he starts to experience constant physical abuse from Mrs. Pickett and Mr. Pickett because of things that he is accused of doing but didn't really do. Fisher gets to see his mother sometimes, and his caseworkers always make observations between the two of them. Fisher and Dwight, his foster brother, don't get along well at all at first and they get into a lot of fights. Fisher's caseworkers give suggestions to Mrs. Pickett on how to handle Fisher and his behavior, but she doesn't try them and she constantly misses her appointments with them. After a while, Mrs. Pickett sends Fisher back to the child welfare building because she's tired of his negative behavior. Fisher's journey for a place to live resumes.
He goes to live in George Junior Republic, an all male reform school. While there, he gets schooling from teachers and begins to develop social skills with his other classmates. He also decides he wants to be an artist or photographer. When he turns 19, he enlists in the navy. Want to know what happens to him while he's in the navy, and after he gets out of the navy? Read this book to find out!
I liked this book because it inspired me by thinking about how Antwone handled with and put up with physical abuse all of those years. If I would have been Antwone, I would have tried to run away from the home, and I would have told somebody that she was abusing me, because you need to tell someone if you are being abused by someone else, that way the person won't do it to another innocent person ever again.
--- Reviewed by Ashley, Reading Diva
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