Written by an amazing woman who underwent many struggles in her life to become who she is now, Frankie Lennon writes of her experiences as a child in her book The Mee St. Chronicles; Straight up Stories of a Black Woman's Life. Published in 2007, Lennon travels back to the 1950's to tell about her childhood stories on Mee St. The narrator has many interesting traits such as her spunk, confidence, and her optimism. Although she has nearly no flaws, one of her week spots is that she has moments where she has low self-esteem. In the chapter Plaits, she describes how all the children, even her so called friends, laughed at her hair-do and she felt very embarrassed. Relating to her as a whole, she is much stronger than that for her hair to be a minor issue. Since she was young, I can understand that she felt this way since she is still naive. She has many strengths that she has carried out until now,which I see her as one of her student's, and it is that she carries herself like a lady. Lennon is very intellectual and has went through so much. Identifying her interest for the same sex was a hard time and yet that has made her a stronger person. So far, the novel gives me a better understanding of who Frankie Lennon is and where she has come from.
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