ROAR Blog #1:Finding Fish-A Memior

Courtney Patterson
Roar Blog–Book into Movie
January 16, 2010

Roar Blog #1

Summary:
In the book Finding Fish: A memoir by Antwone Quenton Fisher, the readers find out about Antowne’s biological mother’s and biological father’s past. Antowne’s father was known through his neighborhood as an upcoming star that had a lovely signing voice and as a troublemaker. Edward “Eddie” Elkins was his name and he had two daughters with his 19 year old girlfriend, at the age of 23. His parents were hard working people who felt that all their children where special, but he had a little extra something to offer to the world. When Eddie met Antowne’s birth mother Eva Mae Fisher, he cheats on his girlfriend and Eva becomes pregnant, without Eddie ever finding out. Eddie never found out about his unborn child because his girlfriend Frances ended up killing him. She killed him because he was threading her and becoming dangerous to her family. After this event Eva realized that she could take care of Antwone by herself and she had to give him up.
Antowne’s new foster parents became Mizz. Pickett and Reverend Pickett, but Antowne didn’t know that he had forest parents, until later on. He thought that they are his real parents. While at the Pickett’s home, Antowne gets treated differently along with the other foster kids. Mizz. Pickett calls the foster kids out of their name, hit them and treat them like animals. Antowne also gets abused from a family friend name Willenda. She sexually abuse Antowne when no one is home and she makes sure that he would not tell a soul.
In the years that Antowne lived at the Pickett’s home he always Dwight to play with. Dwight was a few years older than Antowne and they were both foster kids, but they were closer than anyone in that house. Dwight had done everything with Antowne, he even visited Antowne’s biological mother with him. Mizz. Pickett and the boys went to visit the caseworker and this is where Antowne visited his mother again. She was glad to see Antowne, but she was not ready to take care of him and become a real mother to him.
*Summarized pages 13-98

Quote:
“All through my case files, everybody always seemed to be slipping away, in one sense or another.” (Fisher 49).

Reaction:
My reaction to this quote is that it foreshadows what will happen next, because in Antowne’s life people will always enter his life then exit it. People would not stay around long enough to help him develop into a man, so this quote is explaining how he noticed that. Antwone Quenton Fisher’s writing style is very descriptive. When he was talking about one of the dreams that he had when he was younger, he made the readers feel as if they were there experiencing everything that was going on. He explained the setting of the dream and how each person in his dream looked like. He also explained how they welcomed him into their family with open arms.