vocab
condescending
bratty
strange
dumb
bratty
The man was a human tree in height, towering high above Papa’s six feet two inches”
Metaphor
“Look out there, Cassie girl. All that belongs to you. You ain’t never had to live on nobody’s place but your own and long as I live and the family survives, you never have to.”
papa
a racist store owner in a feud with Mr. Morrison
resign
quit
fire
dumb
quit
This information cut deeply into Little Man's brain, and each day when he found his clean clothes splashed red by the school bus, he became more and more embittered until finally one day he stomped angrily into the kitchen and exploded.
metaphor
Got me better friends than ya’ll! They give me things and treat me like I’m a man...and they white too…”
T.J
attention seeking around Stacey's age gets beat up and goes to jail
T.J