Hair chronicles My take

We all have our different life and our different situations and we each deal with this situations in our different ways. We also decide how we are going to tell our story differently as we are marked by different situations in our lives. The Hair Chronicles by Tabatha Rowley is a perfect example of this as we see the author tell her story in her own unique way. Tabatha was a black girl growing up in the ghetto of Connecticut. Sadly as many of the black people in the United States living in this communities Tabatha had a life full of difficulties and problems that led to her making some very bad decisions. It all started when she was little as she was molested by her uncle, who was not really her uncle, and we could say that that was what started it all for her. She was also bullied at school and ended up using drugs at a really young age, which is a scenario that, sadly, we see too much in young people. She even had to do drugs to perform in a rap group that she had with friends. To add to that her mother hit her a lot with a lot of objects like cables and her own fists. All this problems ended up with her leaving school and going to jail for an assault on her abusive boyfriend with a gun. In jail she started to explore herself and ended up finding out who she really was and how all her problems had affected her and how she had managed them in a poor way. She ended up getting detoxed from all the drugs and even got her high school diploma, is working know and has even reunited with her son. So we could say that she has rehabilitated herself. The curious thing about her story is that she uses her hair as a sort of timeline. Each style of hair she had represented a phase in her life and her style of hair reflected how she was acting and thinking. That is why at the end when she is clear of who she is she decides to go with her natural form of hair, to represent exactly that.