In this section, there are alot of things that happen as he begins in 8th grade in St. Richard Catholic School with his friend LaThon and Jabari along with the girls all from Holy Family.

Throughout the book, I notice how Laymon goes back in forth in trying to understand his position in being black and what is supposed to be expected of him according to his mother. His mother always tells his to correct his vocabulary, be good, show his excellence, to be careful around the white folk. But through Laymon’s eyes, he fights with himself for not being able to move freely. He gets frustrated as he encounters prejudice of his white teachers and police officers(page 81 The cops pulled him and his mom over, and in the situation he hated how the gun was close to her and how couldn’t do anything to defend them both).

Laymon also continues to go through sexual finding and touch in himself with girls one of them being Abby who is white. And due to the fact she is white, both Abby and Laymon face problems in their circle in schools and at home with their families. When Laymon’s mother found out she beat him as she didn’t want Laymon to with a white girl because it will cause even further problems. But Laymon continued to sneak around and pointed out her hypocrisy as his mother continued to be with Malachi Hunter who abused her(he punched her)