A fight with my own fears.
I decided to write about Toure because I believe is a very
experimental piece that brings up an interesting topic that allows discussion
about race. The story was told in 3rd person even though he is still
the first person. Also, he didn’t use “I” when referring to himself but using
his own name Toure. I found that very unique.
This Memoir about Toure is about his own life going to the
gym to box, he never got to win because he was not the best at it. However he
fought his own fears with society and his racial fear. In this piece he make
remarks about explaining what it feels to be a different person. I think this
piece is very important because what its really saying is that minorities and
middle class groups have to work twice as hard to be socially accepted by the
majority. Toure felt the guilt of been middle class and African American. That’s
the fear that many of us feel at some point of our lives, when I was started
going to school I felt different in many occasions, probably due my Hispanic
background and the fear of being foreign in a new country. After a couple of
years that was a fear that I got rid of, I didn’t go to the gym to fight my
fears but school, Toure found his own way to fight his fears.
When Toure states in his writing saying that "no one can hurt me as badly as I can” that was
very meaning because expresses his spirit as boxer and as a person.
The only thing that I didn’t like from this story is that
Toure punish himself really bad. That’s not always good. In addition I believe
African Americans have that fear of being different, yes, they may are, but
that is not the reason to punish yourself for an aspect that they cannot
change. As humans beings we have to fights for things that we can change.
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