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Rosa Parks Sparknotes
The book that I have chose is Rosa Parks: My Story. The book was composed by Rosa Parks and Jim Haskins.

In Rosa Parks: My Story, it talked about Rosa Parks life growing up in the South during the early 1900s. While Rosa was growing up her family did not tolerate injustice, so she grew up without accepting the abuse. When she got older she ran into couple encounters with white children who would try and bully her, however, she would not back down and would even defend herself if necessary. Since there were racial and segregational problems in the schools and her family members getting very sick, Rosa did not receive her High school diploma until she was 21. Two years prior, she married a barber, Raymond Parks. When she married Raymond, she became an activist and joined the NAACP as a secretary. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. Couple days after Rosa was released on bail, African Americans refused to ride the bus. This boycott almost immediately affected the bus systems.The boycott went on for a year until the buses allowed black people to sit unassigned sits.
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The Call of the Wild wasn’t being told through one of the characters. The author knew what the character was thinking and feeling throughout the story. This is true because the author only knew the thoughts and feelings of Buck and not from the other characters. In Rosa Parks My Story, the author used first person point of view. In the story, the author, Rosa, was able to tell historical events that occurred and expressed her viewpoint. She also used the first person singular words to that helped me to indicate that she was using person point of

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