Jake finds himself in a poor neighborhood of mill workers. He sees some men and says "I got the gospel in me." The men think he is talking about religion but Jake says "it's better. It's the truth." Then he proceeds to ask the men why they aren't mad. He says "the bastereds who own these mills are millionaires. "and" When you walk around the stress and see you hungry, worn-out people and ricket-legged younguns, don't it make you mad? How do the men react to Jake's speech? Why do you think they react that way?

No the workers weren't mad they thought that Jake was very blount of everything he says. The workers think that his mouth will get him in trouble one day if he doesn't learn hoe to shut-up. I think he reacted that way because he hates to see people work that hard and get jerked around like there slaves by these millionaries who think they own the mill workers. I think he just got upset to see that.

Compare Jake's point of view about race and David Bernstein's point of view about race. Are they similar or different? Think about the differences also in terms of the genre in which these ideas are expressed?

Jake's point of view towards race is, except me for who I am. Not what race I am or what backround I come from. He says evrything wright there on the spot and if people don't like that it's there problem in Jake's.

In "Mixed Like Me". David Berstein speaks about race from the perspective of being half-black and half-jewish. However, he downplays the importance of race when he says"....the most defining characteristic of who I am is not my race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, political party.... Rather i see myself as an individual first, part of the larger "human family"...

he goes on to say that true self-awareness is in opposition to arbitary groupings of people into race, gender, religion, etc.?

It's not what people think about him but what he does for himself and others will defy him. He wants people to see who he really is.


Yes! I do agree with the author because it's really not important what race, religious beliefs, are. None of that really matters to anybody, if a person really cared for you it wouldn't matter what you are it's who you are.

I personally don't agree with Berntien's suggestion, it's not wright first of all, and rasitist times ended over twenty years ago. So no i do not agree with him about the racial strife in America.

Agree or disagree with the author's thesis. Give an example to support your opinion. Describe a community that you belong to?


"We Are What We Do" We are What we do stat's in the qoute based on the two characters "Singer and Antopothoilis". The qoute is asking the reader what does this mean to us in our own words. To me We are what we do is not what we do, is how we approch certain things. Example. You eat what your are? Sound familiar???? I think that author is trying to say is don't let anyone put you down on what they say about you when you know you make the attempt to do something about it. It doesn't matter what it is.

One of the themes of Chapter 1 is friendship. What makes a person a friend? Do you beieve Singer and Spinos are true friends?

What makes a person a friend is when he or she is always there for you no matter what happens. Somebody you can go and talk to, hang out with, go and have fun with other large groups of people. Yes I do think that Singer and Spinos are true friends because they live in the same house. Spinos was getting into alot of trouble, lucky Singer was there helping him out, bailing him out of jail, liying for him. Singer was always there to help him out nomatter what te case was he was there. That is a true friend to someone.


Is there anything about the relationship which might contradict any ordinary assumptions about friendship?

No i don't think so, because once you grow a strong friendship with someone it's there for a long time. A friend won't go anywere, there always there around for you when ever you need them.