Moonwalk Letter Essay

I’ll be talking to you about the book I’ve been reading for the past month. The book is called “You Are Not Alone: Michael, Through a Brother's Eyes.” This book is a biography of American entertainer, Michael Jackson. The genre of this book is non-fiction. The author of this book is Michael Jackson’s older brother Jermaine Jackson. I will start off by telling you about the main character of this book.

The main character of this book is obviously, Michael Jackson considering this book is a biography. Michael was a hard-working, kind, caring, talented, giving, non-selfish, successful, and influential individual. I believe MJ was a hard-working person because in this book (and many other books) Jermaine states and describes how Michael (And his brothers) would practice for hours and hours every day. He practiced to master every move, make sure there were no flaws, and just to have his performance be perfect. I believe Michael was a very kind, giving, and non-selfish individual because of all the charities and kids he helped throughout his life. From his earliest days in Gary, Indiana he use to give less fortunate kids candies and other foods even despite the fact that his family wasn’t exactly the most rich. Michael donated more than 100 million dollars to charities all over the world. He visited sick and diseased children in hospitals, let them spend time at Neverland (his ranch in California), and the most amazing thing? Michael didn’t do this for publicity or anything of such sort. Want proof? There’s barely, actually almost no footage of Michael meeting, helping, or just being generous to these diseased/sick/less fortunate kids. Michael did this because he was a kind and giving person. He felt bad for these children, he wanted to bring joy into their lives, make them happy once again. This showed what type of person Michael was. He didn’t help these children and make them happy for publicity or a “good” image in the press. He did it because that’s who he was,...