Because of wat Lafeyette and pharaoh is going through it LaJoe concerns about them made her her life tough. She couldn’t sleep at night, she had constant headaches. Also her temper is really short.
#Tellingsum
The two main characters pharaoh which is 9 and his older brother Lafeyette and there friends are climbing through dirt to reach railroad tracks by there house. The railroad connects downtown when they reach the tracks pharaoh can see his home which is dirty and ran down
#Intro
Pharaoh loves school even though his speech problems and be 2 months below standard level. He rushes to school as fast as he can and reason intill his eyes hurt
#chapter7
Lafeyette has second thought on pharaoh new friend Ricky but he like his success to make friends and he is worried about his sibling safety he says he needs to know how to fend for himself
#chapter8
LaJoe remembers moving into the Henry Horner homes at age 4 in 1956. Roy and Lelia Mae Anderson her parents left being broke in the south to find work in Chicago.
#Freshstart
Summers violence affected pharaoh mentaly and physically which causes him to stutter.Later his friends begin to make fun of him about how he talked
#feelsad
Where pharaoh and lafeyette live they call it the grave yard because it’s so run down and since the lights bulbs are not working they have to use flashlights to walk through the main lobby in the morning. Violence is around but is worst in the summer
#Chapter
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Pharoah’s environment becomes particularly chaotic a few weeks before the spelling bee. A couple of weeks earlier two acquaintances of the family have a violent fight in their apartment and one of them shoots a pistol.
#chapter19
It remains unclear whether Lafeyette talks back to the policeman or is too slow to obey but the policeman suddenly grabs him by the collar and throws him into a puddle of water telling him that “These white people don’t have no money to give no niggers.”
#chapter17
In 1988two criminal cases affect Horner residents in The first one involves an eight year old girl Urica who saw a man named Lawrence and his friend Bobbie stab The crime gruesome details leave the Horner community shaken. Everyone considers Urica a miracle child
#Chapter14
In the weeks following Jimmie Lee’s conviction violence at Horner slows down a bit. This allows Pharoah’s stutter to subside and he and Lafeyette go to an outdoor swimming pool or to the Boys Club to play.
#thingsaregettingbetter
#Chapter15
Police He grabs him and holds him against a wall holding a gun up to his head. According to the officer Craig begins to struggle and the pistol accidentally discharges although later evidence shows that the policeman was holding the gun to Craigs head when it discharged
#chapter20
Days later the family learn that Terence might be sentenced to ten years in prison While both Lafeyette and Pharoah are shocked by this news and worry about their brother they keep their thoughts to themselves they do not want to make their mother more nervous than she already is
When LaJoe Lafeyette Pharoah and the triplets go to the county jail to visit Terence they have to talk to him through bullet proof glass but are all extremely excited to see each other. When Lafeyette says hello to his brother Terence telling him to stay in school and stay away
Lafeyette liked Craig because Craig listens to Lafeyette’s opinions treating him as an equal and has a big dream of living in a home in a safe neighborhood far from Horner a capacity to project himself into the future
#13
LaJoe is called to the local welfare office because in light of the allegation that her husband sometimes sleeps at home her eligibility needs to be reexamined. Nervous and subdued she is taken to theinterrogation room.
#chapter10
When Pharoah is picked to spell in the school’s spelling bee he practises for weeks before the contest words and training himself to relax and think calmly before speaking so that he will not stutter. when he stands on the stage he becomes so nervous afraid that he will stutter
One Saturday Pharoah Lafeyette Rickey and other friends go window shopping When they enter a video cassette store Rickey suggests to Lafeyette that they steal some Pharoah intervenes asking his older brother to go home but Lafeyette hesitating at Rickey tells him to leave
#chpt16