Summary of Sidney Poitier's The Measure of a Man

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was very fortunate in life, and as I lay in bed late at night, I was surrounded by beautiful things. But I was also very poor, and poverty didn’t preclude gorgeous beaches and a climate like heaven.
#2 I grew up on Cat Island, and I was free to explore and play anywhere I wanted. I knew from observation that the sapodilla tree produced fruit, plump, grayish brown, soft, and delectable. I learned early on that if I got up high in a sapodilla tree, rather than crawling out on limbs to see if the fruit was ripe enough to eat, I could rattle the top branches and ripe fruit would come loose and fall to the ground.
#3 The American society we live in today is constantly bombarding children with sounds, smells, and images. But the mental and emotional apparatus to sift through these distractions and process them in some meaningful way isn’t there yet.
#4 I was raised on Cat Island, a small island in the Caribbean, where there was no electricity or running water. I had to learn how to survive without these things. I was exposed to stimuli, but they were natural ones.

Sujets

• Parenting

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 22 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669357025
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Sidney Poitier's The Measure of a Man
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was very fortunate in life, and as I lay in bed late at night, I was surrounded by beautiful things. But I was also very poor, and poverty didn’t preclude gorgeous beaches and a climate like heaven.

#2

I grew up on Cat Island, and I was free to explore and play anywhere I wanted. I knew from observation that the sapodilla tree produced fruit, plump, grayish brown, soft, and delectable. I learned early on that if I got up high in a sapodilla tree, rather than crawling out on limbs to see if the fruit was ripe enough to eat, I could rattle the top branches and ripe fruit would come loose and fall to the ground.

#3

The American society we live in today is constantly bombarding children with sounds, smells, and images. But the mental and emotional apparatus to sift through these distractions and process them in some meaningful way isn’t there yet.

#4

I was raised on Cat Island, a small island in the Caribbean, where there was no electricity or running water. I had to learn how to survive without these things. I was exposed to stimuli, but they were natural ones.

#5

I had a fascination with the dark mysteries behind the things I didn’t understand. I would go near rock formations at the edge of the ocean where there were high cliffs, and I wouldn’t be told, but I would know by just figuring it out that if I fell over there, there was no way to climb back.

#6

I had done much such flirting with risk by the age of ten and a half, when I got to Nassau, which is the capital of the Bahamas and a real city. I had learned to read body language well by the age of ten, and could use it as a reference point to understand what others were saying and doing.

#7

My mother, Evelyn, was a creature of silence. She could barely talk to anyone except my father, and she couldn’t speak to me much. She used to take me into the woods to ponds where she would do her washing.

#8

My mother was a very special human being, and I believe that much of what has happened to me is the continuation of her soul and her spirit. She was a mother who could never articulate her feelings, but she felt far more than she could speak.

#9

I was a spoilt child, but I was also a child who was loved and cared for by my family. I had dreams of becoming a cowboy, but I knew I had to contribute to the thin margin of our survival.

#10

We are connected with everything. We are connected with the primal instincts, and whatever is primal in us goes all the way back to the beginning of the species.

#11