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Claude just came back from a trip to the south. Claude is thinking about his dad and wonders if his dad misses him. claude already knows that his father doesn't miss him. Claude has a bad relationship with his father. Every time Claude's father tried to talk to him, Claude would bullshit him, as he says, which means that he would look serious as if his father was saying something real smart. Claude's father pounding on him instead of talking to him because he was always stumbling over his words and repeated himself. If i was in that situation where my father couldn't talk to me and all he did was pound on me, i would have a bad relationship with my father too. Claude is always saying that he can't wait until he's big enough to kick his fathers ass, and wondering if his father would talk to him then. If Claude doesn't like his father pounding on him then he should say something to him, and let his father know that i don't like what you are doing to me, and i rather you talk to me. It's crazy that you should go through that every time your father wanted to talk to you, that's a bad thing to live with, because if Claude has children, there is a high chance that he would do the same thing, and it doesn't have to be because he stumbles over his words, or repeats himself so many time that he just gets tired of it and has to do something else to get out what he has to say.
After Claude's long trip in the south, Claude went back to school. Claude finds the most prettiest girl ever, and her name is Grace. Before Claude met Grace, he use to chase other girls home, and beat them up. How could a boy ever do that to a girl. The thing is, he beat up so many girls and they never complained. Claude chased Grace home one day, but he never put his hands on her. A girl name Rosalind asked Claude how come he didn't chase her, and Claude told her that she wasn't as pretty as Grace. That's bad thing to tell a girl, because he probably made Rosalind feel bad. Even though Grace had braces, Claude didn't care, he still liked her, and believed that she was the one, the one girl who he really liked. To Claude, Grace was the only person that he couldn't billshit. Claude loved to play with her and he loved to see her face all day long. Grace's name was the name that made Claude happy, sometimes Claude said that Grace's name made him happier than his mother.
At the age of eleven, Claude had his first birthday party. Claude and his friends went into a jewish club and stole money from the cash register. They also stole food from the jewish club. When Claude and his friends left the club, they had three shopping bags full of champagne for his birthday party. Old people even showed up at Claude's birthday party. Having old people show up to you're birthday party is very wierd. Having old people at you birthday party is sad, because then it would feel as if you have chaperones all over your party. Having chaperones at a teenagers party is like goig to school with your parents. you can't act how you act without your parents around, and that's normal for every teenager. It's funny because later on in the story Claude forgot all about Grace, and now likes another girl, that seemed ugly to him before his birthday party.
Wiltwyck is where Claude was sent in order for him to become a good boy. The first night that Claude spent there, he had a bad dream. All Claude can think about is going home. Claude lives with a whole bunch of other boys a house in Wiltwyck. In the house, K.B., Claude's partner comes in the room one night and shows Claude that he jerked off. After that digusting act took place, every boy wants to jerk off. That is just sad, i know that they are young men, and they are going up, but that is just crazy. If i knew that, that nasty act was going to happen, i would of skipped over that page, but i didn't know so i read it.
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'' When he said he was Mr. Upshur, i knew he couldn't help me. He was colored. What could he do for anybody''
(Brown, 75)
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When i read this quote, it stung my heart. This quote put me in a postion where, when i finished reading it i had to pause and just think. While i was thinking, i thought about the meaning, the full concept of what this quote meant. This quote really touched me. I sad wow, while i was thinking about this quote. This quote made me think about what people might say about me when i have a job. I thought would people think the same way of me. I couldn't beleive this quote when i heard it, because i was asking how could Claude say something like this? I know Claude is black, and i don't understand how he could say something like this ever in his life. I just didn't expect this to be said. This quote makes me very up set, and i'm mad that i ended reading this. Not to be racist in any form of way, but if i was white i would still have the same opinion, becuase that's crazy. Why would anyone ever think or say something like that. After reading this quote, i was so mad at Claude for saying that, because it wasn'y nice. I believe that Claude was being racist of his own kind. That's crazy.
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