1- In chapter 1,
when Mark and Bryon save M&M from Curly Sheppard’s gang and afterwards want
to beat up on another innocent by-stander, M&M says:
“You make me sick! You just rescued me from some guys who
were going to beat me up because I’m different from them, and now you’re going
to beat up someone because he’s different form you. You think I’m
weird – well, you’re the weird ones.”
· Discuss difference in
Mark and Bryon’s world. What does it mean and what does it
cause?
· What does that
event enable you to infer or predict about what will happen in the story?
In Mark and Bryon’s world, difference means danger. Unfortunately
when you are different, you get beat up by some gangs. They have been raised in
a certain way and to be different means they will get involuntarily into
trouble. In the first chapter, M&M was confronted by a gang. This poor little
boy was different and Curly Sheppard’s gang felt the need to beat him up. It
doesn’t make any sense to me, why should we beat up somebody different than us?
I predict than later on, in the book, somebody who seems different than the
others will obviously be beaten up, even if he is innocent.
2- In chapter 2,
Mike’s story ends with the girl saying “kill the white bastard”. Why
do you think she said that? Explain from the context.
I think the girl said that to protect herself. She had cried
earlier and we could still notice it. She probably did not want to explain to
all her neighbourhood her story. It was easy for her to blame Mike, he was a white
kid and he had given her a ride. She knew her story would make sense because it
was suspicious that a guy, different than her, was kind and enough generous to
take her back home safely.
3- At the end of
chapter 2, Mike says:
“I still don’t hate Negroes, least of all Connie. I mean I
can almost see why she did it. Almost.”
Mark later says
about Mike:
“That is one stupid guy. [… ] if anybody ever hurt
me like that, I’d hate them for the rest of my life.”
What does that comment allow you to foreshadow about Mark?
I think Mark
will be confronted to a situation where maybe he will be the different guy that
will be beaten up. He thinks Mike is stupid to forgive somebody that almost
killed him. I believe that Mark doesn’t understand Mike’s position because he
has never been in any circumstance similar. Bryon statement of the end of
chapter two makes me predict that Mark will get beaten up by somebody and will
never forgive his attackers. Maybe it will be a close friend or even Bryon that
accidently will hurt him.
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