I Just Want To Be Average.

I have read I Just Want To Be Average, by Mike Rose. This writing is about a young man that goes from poor schooling to finding a mentor that changes his outlook on education. The young man starts high school with poor teachers that have not properly prepared classes or is not in tune to the education of students. Later in his high school years he has a English teacher that has a different way of teaching and seems to take interest in the students.
His vocational education was in a South Los Angeles school. Teachers would not be ready for the classes, or some would be undereducated for the job. He writes about reading and rereading Julius Caesar. After reading it once, the class would change parts and start reading it again.
In the writing he lets readers know that his father had died. Starting with arteriosclerosis, he landed up having his leg amputated. After that he slipped and broke his hip and eventually landed up in a rest home where he died.
After his father died he was put into Jack MacFarlands English class. Rose and others created a respect for this man. He was well organized, taught in a interesting way and seemed to keep the attention of the class. MacFarland would encourage Rose to write. He helped Rose with his first year of college by writing letters, getting a loan, and talking to professors in the college.
Rose felt like he had alot of knowledge at the end of the writing. He could understand things that may be complicated to others. He was thriving and maybe knew he had big things ahead of him.