Alive: Based on a True Story
This is a true story based on the author’s life that so many people can relate with and others must relate to in order to become alive. A book that has been composed of several different elements such as, lack of faith, controlling one’s anger, learning to love and care for people regardless of their race, understanding your powerful gift from God, and being able to accept and seek the truth. From God through you to another, love and the truth is the heart of God that can build any human being
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COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT BETTER!!!!!!,
“Weighing in at 95 pages and typeset in what appears to be 14-pt Times New Roman, Alive by Jeffrey Murray (Trafford 2007) follows the efforts of a young African-American male to “understand blacks, whites, the whole universe, and how it is designed to intricately work together.” Early in the purportedly true story, Murray-as-first-person-narrator writes, “Thursday, twenty years ago, a rage of pure hell was ignited within my mental capacity from racial broadcastings of black people struggles in America.” As the book progresses, Murray takes the reader through a number of racially-charged incidents that helped to shape his attitudes toward race, life, and the universe: moving from school to school, interracial romance, violence, bigotry, the death of a family member, and a personal near-death experience. Throughout this very short memoir, Murray punctuates his life-story with footnotes explaining the greater significance of each incident. This strategy produces an interesting result: two narratives running almost simultaneously, one depicting events in the narrator’s external life, and the other charting his emotional and intellectual growth. Overall, Alive is a quick read that offers an interesting and personal glimpse into the mind of a young man coming of age while exploring the significance of race in America.” (Small Press Reviews)
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|The author, himself, is lucky to be ALIVE!,
This short autobiography tells the tumultuous life of its thirty-something-year-old author, a young man that happens to be a native of my area of Georgia. Although I knew the young man, I didn’t know that he had experienced such a violent and drama-filled life.
Murray has been an angry young man (prone to violent outbursts of rage), a sex fiend, (bedding almost every girl that he saw), a drug dealer that occasionally scoffed at the legal system, and an incarcerated felon. With all that, he managed to turn his life around, become a Christian, and forge ahead as a professional boxer.
In detailing his life, Murray peppers his prose with much profanity and lingo that is, obviously, familiar to the younger crowd and those that make their lives “hustling.” Some may be offended by his word choice and, perhaps, shun his story, missing the chance to experience something to which many of us are ignorant. If one can look past the profanities, one will find a story that is quite eye-opening, presenting a truly hard-edged look at the life of a young black man growing up impoverished in southwest Georgia.
Again, I’ll admit that I was taken back by the “revelations” in this book, unaware of the young man’s beginnings and experiences, as well as the ups and downs of the lives of him and his peers.
For that, I congratulate the author for stepping out and “opening” up to the reading public.
I just hope that in his next book, he gets a better proofreader and editor that can assist in the correction of the numerous grammatical and spelling mistakes, along with errors in Murray’s flow of thought.
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|Inspirational,
Young, ignorant, uneducated, rebuilt, understanding, compassionate, loving, truthful, and Alive. This book carries the characteristics of all the words above. (Extraordinary story!)
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