In this video, they interviewed James McBride about his life. He explains how his life, his family(mostly his mother), his career and his previous gigs. He talks of his life how he was naive and very narrow-minded. He doesn’t speak of how ignorant he was as a teenager but he does talk about how he respects teenagers and how they need to
know more about literature and writing. To me, this is very similar to the book because after he started writing he changed from his old ways of basically coping/rebelling. He speaks of things I believe he wishes someone had done to him as a teen giving him a different aspect of his life and to take him to another path that may not have made this possible.
The video goes more into the depth of James McBride life after the book with his journalism and what his life of jazz, misbehaving, history, and family. He has his moment of he talking about this life and as you watch he tells you the things that happen in the book making him show the nonfiction struggle of him through his memoir. He brings his thought of his mother how she was widowed twice and overtime accepted it because of her knowledge of always knowing that there is going to be a change. For me, my perspective of the story was a child with a troubled life of losing his fathers. He goes on to find out the history of his mother and her journey from Poland to America. As the story goes he changes from a good guy to a bad boy but recovers from moving and getting a scholarship to Oberlin college to study music and get a degree in journalism. In the end, he grows as an author and ends up being the James McBride we know and love reading. This was my perspective of James and his family but he is much more. He all the problems of the past that makes the story even more interesting to read to see how it affected him and his family. My opinion on the interview is best for getting to know more about James McBride to his life after college.
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