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Pg.163 Obama is really gaining momentum with his community organizing job in Chicago and he is starting to get a lot of the local churches involved. the problem is that Obama himself has a problem with faith and religion.

I predict that religion will continue to play a big part in his organizing, and that he will need to change something before he can move on in his life.

Through out this whole part of the book one word is continuously said and talked about, faith. At the end of every meeting he has with a priest or a deacon they always ask him about his faith and he always says he hasn't figured it out yet.

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Pg.108 Obama is telling us what his college life was like. like his childhood he is still trying to figure out who he is, from heart-felt speeches to drugs and alcohol , he is working his way through college and getting one step closer to finding his purpose in life.

It seems that most of his problems in life are stemming from the fact that he is black and for the majority of his life has been raised by white people and lived in a white community. He doesn't know if he should be helping the black community or fit into the white one as best he can.

In this part of the book race is a big part. It's not necessarily racism, but he is just so confused and college is not making it any easier.

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Pg.71 Obama is telling us about the hardships he faced as a child in Indonesia. He says that most of the time he had fun because he knew no different. They had exotic pets and he loved playing with the other boys, but towards the end of his moms and step-fathers marriage he said things started to get weird and scary. His family was becoming poor and Lolo, the step-father, often slept with a pistol. I notice that Obama keeps referring to how Lolo had so many hardships with his his job, and I think that is one reason his mother and step-father got divorced.

Pg.45 I think that the word power is very important in this section of the book, because it describes the rise and fall of the Indonesian Government, Obama's new family, and most of all, Lolo.

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After hearing about his fathers death Obama starts to think about who he is and thinks about the part of his childhood when he lived in Indonesia. He went there because his mother got married to an Indonesian government official. While he was there he witnessed how other idonesion people live.

I predict that Obama will continue to refer back to his childhood throughout the whole story because it seems like a very unique one and it helps him learn more about who he is.

His new step-father had told him that his job is so hard because "the media lies where the power is." I think this is tru because the people who have power have the ability to spin the media the way they want it.