Becoming by Michelle Obama

I read this book several months ago, and while reading the book, I was quite absorbed and excited by her story. I did not know her very well, but after finishing reading her book, I became to like her. As a previous first lady and still influential woman, her memoir cannot help but contain some political meaning. Like all autobiographies, it represents her views of past events and the world, and we all know that our memories are often censored and distorted by our minds. Even though all these things, this book touched me and made me more positive.

As a black student raised in a working-class family in the 1970-80s, her feelings and thoughts reminded me of my past adolescence and college period. This ambitious girl who had dreamed of becoming a professional woman finally became a lawyer in a law firm in downtown Chicago and met her future husband, Barrack Obama as a summer associate there. Her description of their encounter and her husband was so romantic as if it were a part of one movie. She also described later presidential election campaign and White House life, which is very unfamiliar to all of us, very vividly and as realistic as other issues in our lives.

Above all, her passionate, unpretentious, and humble attitude made me have a good feeling toward her. I don’t know about American society well, but her narrative gave me a further understanding of American society.

Later, I will recommend this book to my daughter when she becomes a teenager.

Written by Shim G.

Friday, October 16, 2020

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