Book Review: Before I Forget by Leonard Pitts Jr.

There are many stereotypes that bother black Americans. That annoying father, a teen mob, a small mother, and a very unpleasant statement are also there. But in his 2009 novel "Before You", Little Leonard Pitt put these stereotypes on your face and shows that there are human beings behind generalization.

This novel is centered around the family of the famous soul singer, James Moses Johnson Jr., of the 1970s. His success is not enough. He has fans all over the world. He is still in his forties but he is slowly becoming a victim of early onset Alzheimer's disease.

In the face of the end of his life, James (aka Mo) can finally see how it is ruined, and he knows better things before he forgets everything and succumbs to his illness I will try. The most important thing is his son Trey who almost ignores this. The tray wants to be a rapper, but he rarely lived in the "street" life he criticized. When trying to "experience that kind of life," he was arrested for participating in the crime, some of which were murdered.

However, this is not the end of the breakdown. As his father is about to die, he started off - road trips with his son. During this trip they reached an agreement with their disjointed relationship and defined the masculinity for modern black men. When returning home, Trey's mother tried to find happiness with other people. Even though I still like Mo and I do not know Trey, this is a killer that ends life. All of this is trying to protect the secret of the soul that failed with Mo's shadow.

The author has a clear and thoughtful voice to decorate the scene with classical and modern music. He took us from now to the Mississippi countryside in the 1940s and remembers how deeply rooted today's problems are in the past. This story keeps eye - catching speed at all times. This proves that Pitts absorbs a wide variety of roles and plays a very deep role in getting enough investment in its results. These characters are fictitious figures, but these characters are real people. You are on the street, in the newspaper, and at home. In this way, Pitts raised a deep question about the pillars of society, unlike reality.

This beautiful story records those who lost his thinking, life and dignity when he learned something really important to him. This is truly a tragic problem, but in this tragedy, Pitts has revealed the value of life and the value of life of the people we chose. Everything we do affects others as well. Just like real life, each character grows into its own character due to its choice, environment, and faults.

The literary market for African Americans is a book that is considered to be mainly "city novel". These books are written about the story of gangsters, illegal harassment, and baby mama drama. Like the reality show you saw on TV, they are very sensational. Do not despise those writers, but I believe there is a more black experience. This is a reflection of this belief before I forgot Leonard Pitts.

Last name _______________ 1 Before I forgot Leonard Pitts, Pit wrote a pleasant book. This race and sexual book is a great book with the relationships between parents and adolescents, and the different ways they can misunderstand each other. I have read this book over and over and I am very happy to read this book. I think that I will consider it for a long time. The first book of Leonardo Pitz 's novel is the editor of the Pulitzer Prize - winning newspaper, which is a novel that has been going on for a long time since reading the last page. There are many Pitts divisions that manage the urgent situation of illegal children in African American society, and the person in that book is black. In any case, these are all included in the topic of all rows, including shadows and classes. Obviously, this news made his reality run away.

At first glance, this seems to be a message in London's Pete's novel "I forgot" at first glance. Pitts uses different perspectives to tell the story of three James, Moses Johnson, each of which deals with his own dilemma, not perfect son-in-law relationship. We started with a group of 70 years old soul singer Mo Johnson. He faced a medical condition that forced him to reevaluate his life. If this is not enough, he will know that a 19-year-old son Trey encountered a legal problem in five days. It is not marginalized by young trays, but it is neither a model father nor a frequent visitor in the lives of young people. Mo also knows that his foreign father, Jack, also suffers from serious illness.