"To Be Young, Gifted, and Black"

The story that is revolved around a young girl growing up in the urban southside streets of Chicago called, "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black" relates to so many kids across the United States as you begin to read this story. The young girl name was Lorraine Hansberry and she was explaining her growing up within the black southside community and the feeling I, as a reader, received out of this writing was the vibe of a family sticking together. It seems as if what ever this family did, they were able to manage a way to do the same thing together. They had the unity, love, encouragement, everything to become a very close family and it seems as if that was the message they were trying to get across. The author would explain how on hot and steamy nights in the summer, the whole family would take trips out to the local parks and would sleep out there. How the elders that originated from down south would tell as many stories as they could to impress the little children as they continue to impress them with the various of tales they have for them. But also, how the mother would make sure she took care of her own four children while the father would be off somewhere handling business for the NAACP as she sat on the porch with a loaded rifle warning anybody that dares to try her. Family back in those times meant something valuable to people and they made sure that their own was protected and had everything they needed. It showed the unity that they all displayed and how they were able to maintain it throughout life.