Summary
Claude’s parents kicked him out of their house, because Claude just keeps on missing up, and doing the wrong things. Since Claude was kicked out of his house, he had nowhere else to go. Going to Warwick is the only place that Claude could go, because he didn’t want to live on the streets. Being in Warwick has changed his life. While being in Wiltwyck, Claude use to hangout with his friends, and do the same bad things that he did when he was home in Harlem. Now that Claude is living in Warwick, all he does is read, and he didn’t want to be bothered by anyone that tired to bother him or even talk to him.
After Claude knew he wasn’t going to stay in Warwick, Claude left, and decided to go back on the street. All of Claude’s friends were gone, and Claude had to go somewhere. Claude started selling pot in order to go somewhere besides Warwick. Not only did Claude sell pot, but Claude changed after coming out of Warwick. Claude started hanging out with his old friend Turk. Turk was the only old friend Claude could hang out with, for the fact that Claude’s old friends were lost in drugs, and were lost in life as well.
Claude quite his first job and dealt pot. Claude met a new friend from Harlem and his name is Reno. Reno was going to show all kinds of hustling tricks.
Downtown is where Claude did his hustling. Claude made a whole lot more money from selling pot, thank working a regular job. Even though Claude knew then that cocaine was bad, and that it might even be worse than horse, and once he saw a girl snort some up her nostril he decided to snort some up his nose. Claude found his thing to get high and that was cocaine. Cocaine wasn’t a habit forming drug, so Claude stayed with cocaine. Buying a cap of cocaine was five dollars, which was less than a dollar cap of horse, which Claude will never turn back to again, at least not from the bad experience that he had with it.
Claude’s mother was crying after she found out that Claude was going to live in a house on Hamilton Terrace in a little nice room that was just for slick people were all hustlers. Claude came home after everyone in a while and gave his parents money, after a while Claude’s parents stopped asking him where he had gotten it from.
Quote
‘’ yeah, man, but that’s not the main thing. The main thing is to stop screamin’ on the area men. You can go and have your rumbles and shit if you want, but you know if you stab anybody and they find out about it, you’re through. The only way you gon make it outta here is to cool it. Didn’t I tell you I wasn’t gon stay up here a year when I came? And now I’m walkin’, right? So it must be somethin’ to it.’’
(Brown, 145)
Reaction
This quote is very ironic to me. I say this because Claude, earlier on in the book was talking about how he didn’t want to get stabbed because he was afraid at the time when he seen his father wound on his neck. I wonder why Claude said that the main thing is to stop screaming. What does going to war and being in a gang have to do with screaming in an area? I like how Claude said that the only way you’re going to make it out of here is to cool it. To me that sentence says that the only way you’re going to survive is if you don’t put your self in so much trouble and do anything bad where people will want to come after you and hurt you. I believe that it’s about time is Claude should get right and do the right thing and start to set good examples for his friends. I like Claude’s dialect, because it is very cultural and it’s different from what I speak and how I say things. Claude’s dialect is very interesting, and it’s fun to read.
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