Colin Ritter Mrs. Gosser Literacy 3 31 January 2023 Identity Something that really affects the identity of a person is where a person lives. In the memoir Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson she explains what it was like as a kid in the 1960s during racially discriminating times. Jacqueline is a little girl that grew up in the 1960s, who really struggled to find out who she was/wanted to be. She has moved several times from Ohio to South Carolina and then to New York. She likes to write, imagine and make up all sorts of crazy stories about her life. She is very close with her family such as her mom and her grandfather, but the greatest influence over Jacqueline’s life and identity is when she has been moving from state to state. One way Jackie’s identity was shaped is when she moved to her grandma and grandfather’s house in South Carolina. Jackie and her siblings arrive at their grandfather's house not realizing this will be their home for a while and they are greeted with a “Welcome home, my grandparents say. Their warm brown arms around us. A white handkerchief, embroidered with blue to wipe away my mother’s tears” (Woodson 32). Jacqueline's mother left her father because she did not like living in Ohio. She brought them to her parent’s house in Greenville, South Carolina …show more content…
Jackie’s mother has already been in New York for some time and Jackie and her siblings finally saw what New York was like and she explains, “Here there is only gray rock, cold and treeless as a bad dream. Who could love this place-where no pine trees grow, no porch swing moves with the weight of your grandmother” (Woodson 143). Jacqueline was moving to New York City because she was going to go live with her mother. She realized that it was very bland and nothing like South Carolina. She liked South Carolina; it was her home but it was taken from her when she was moved to New