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Title: All God's Children by Fox Butterfield ISBN: 0-380-72862-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent read: informative, sad and chilling
Comment: This book was exceptionally well written and well researched, giving a very detailed account of how violence in the African American community, and primarily in the Bosket family, got its start from the violence that was the norm in South Carolina, where the Boskets came from. The story of Willie's family, his ancestors all the way up to his parents and siblings, is a sobering one that explains how families can be "doomed" when they remain outside of the mainstream and do not have access to opportunity or given any hope. Butterfield does a good job describing the criminal justice system as it relates to children and how we have come to treat 12 and 13 year old children like adults. But what is being done to stop this madness?
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely amazing, an excellent read, very insightful
Comment: Probably the best book I've read since Malcolm X. You know its good when you've got 15 people to review it and they all rate it high. This book is very hard to find, so if you get a chance to get your hands on it, then buy it.
The first 100 pages, or so, are good, but not as good as the rest of the book. But they are absolutely necessary to understanding the book. The book is very well written and researched. It took me through the full gambit of emotions. I couldn't put it down.
Rating: 5
Summary: Interesting Book!
Comment: I found this book interesting as well as heartbreaking. When I first opened it up, I was unable to put it down. Alcoholism, physical abuse, sexual abuse, incest, rejection, and neglect were 6 factors in which had been existent within the Bosket family. It seems as if the only way they had learned to fight were with either weapons or with their bare hands. One of the saddest situations included Butch and the fact that he had raped his girlfriend's 6 year-old daughter, "Kristin". The girlfriend's name was Donna and she seemed to be a weak-willed woman. I couldn't believe that she had actually ignored her daughter's cries while he was raping her. I just kept reading it over and over again: 'Kristin could see her mother standing in the darkened doorway of her room, and she asked her to make Butch stop. When Donna heard her daughter's plea, she said, "No. I won't stop him."' In the end, because she had allowed it to go on, she had lost custody of both "Kristin" and her twin brother, Matthew. She was so taken by Butch that she seemed to care more about him than her own children and they hadn't even known each other that long. She lost her life because she had decided to follow behind him as if she didn't have any backbone. Sad.
I think part of Willie Jr.'s anger had been directed toward his grandfather, James Bosket (Butch's father), because he had sexually abused him on numerous occasions. I found it very disgusting and shocking. Willie was a young boy and had no idea what molestation meant and that it was wrong. Another part of his anger seemed to be directed toward his mother, Laura. Although she was trying very hard to raise Willie, she didn't make the situation any better by repeatedly telling him that he was going end up just like his father or giving him more negative feedback than positive. Her neglect and rejection of him was what drove him to threaten to commit suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming train. But then you have to look at it from her side also. She had become a single mother because Butch had gone to prison for killing two people in a pawn shop, leaving her to take care of Willie all by herself. She felt rejected herself because he had promised to be there for her and their son. She thought that she was going to live a happy life with the man she loved and he winds up going to prison. He even forced her to divorce him. I guess she resented him for it and took it out on Willie Jr. By the time Jr. was 21, he had gotten married to a woman named, Sharon (who wanted to bed him right after she had met him), who had a daughter by another man. I think Willie accepted her marriage proposal and had taken on the responsibility of helping her raise her daughter because he wanted to fulfill his dream of wanting a family. On top of that, the relationship seemed to be based on lust, not love.
I was glad to read that Jr. had calmed down quite a bit by 1995; I think because he's getting older, he realizes how much time he had wasted and actually does have remorse for the innocent people he had murdered and robbed and their families who suffered losing them. I'm not quite sure if he has been broken by the same system he was against but now, he has no choice but to sit in prison awaiting his release, which will be no time soon. As a matter of fact, he'll be an elderly man by then.
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Title: NO MATTER HOW LOUD I SHOUT : A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by Edward Humes ISBN: 0684811952 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 07 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Theories of Adolescence by Rolf E. Muuss ISBN: 0070442673 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $52.90 |
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Title: A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court by William Ayers ISBN: 0807044032 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) by Barry C. Feld ISBN: 0195097882 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City by David T. Courtwright ISBN: 0674278712 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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