ROAR Hisorty book

Delroy Demontegnac
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 1-3

5) Comments I have:
1. Berry Gordy was a great grandson of a slave who had moved from the Ford assembly line to founding Motown Records.
2. Motown Records was the most successful music label of the 1960’s.
3. Michael Jackson was also from Motown records.
4. Berry Gordy was the owner of Motown records and he was born Nov, 28 1929.
5. In order for Berry Gordy to own a place called Motown records, he was intelligent, he worked and worked until he got enough money to buy his own place then he created his own place.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1. How did he get from being a position from being a poor black person into a owner of Motown records?
2. Is his kid are the owners and manager of Motown records now?
3. What’s going to happened to him into the next chapters?
4. Is someone in his family going to die like his mother to motivate him in anyway to try to pursue his Dream of becoming rich?
3) Vocabulary:
1. Strife (Posner 6) - a quarrel, struggle, or clash.
2. Frenzied (9) - wildly excited or enthusiastic.
3. Tenement (8) - any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1. “Both Parents were strict disciplinarians, praising their children generously for good accomplishments but also meting out corporal punishment for transgressions”(Posner 7)- this an example of situational irony because the reader whose reading knows why his parents are beating him to do good and he has success and I know that he would become successful.
2. “Instead, he reserved his enthusiasm for boxing at neighborhood gym. It was a sport to appealed to many local blacks…” (Posner 9)-This is situational Irony because this shows that he’s trying to do anything that he can make lots of money from so he tries to do anything like boxing to make it big but we know that he might be able to make it from that but from something else.
1) Summary: Through chapter1-3 this story’s about Berry Gordy and about is family struggles and his struggles to fine a job to be successful at it. He went looking around and around searching for a job that can bring you to success like boxing but it wasn’t quite successful for him though.