Black and White- Post- Reading

  For my post-reading I am choosing to write about the quote, "For better or for worse, you'll find out everything you want (or don't want) to know about this world".  This quote connects to the book and to life both in many different ways.
  In the book we all learn that the man that Eddie (white) shoots, recognizes Marcus (black) and accuses him of the shooting. Even though Marcus didn't shoot the man, he "confesses" to doing it. When he does this, Eddie's name is never mentioned. I think that by doing this the author is trying to show diversity and maybe even a little bit about how racism comes into play in this book. The book as a whole doesn't really ever come straight out and talk that much about racism and social diversity. The reason I have mentioned social diversity is because a woman also recognized Eddie from a previous stickup, and when it came time to get lawyers, Eddie was able to afford one because he lived in a higher class neighborhood with wealthy parents. Marcus lived in a neighborhood in the bad part of town with his mother and his younger sister. ( His dad died.) His family did not have any extra money to spare, this is why they started doing stickups; to get money. This is how the author hinted at racism and social diversity throughout the book. So, whether we wanted to or not we all learned something about how others in the world think about skin color, social classes, wealth, etc.
  Everyday we learn something new whether this is at school or outside of school, whether we wanted to know it or not. Sometimes these new things that we learn can be sad or scary, and some can be exciting. Some things that we eventually learn about include death, racism, war, sickness, poverty, and homelessness. In this book we learned about racism, poverty, people not telling the truth to save themselves, and sometimes even bad friends. We have all experienced at least one of these examples.
  So, no matter if you choose to or not, you will learn something new about this world every day. But when you do, don't reject it because you never know, you might learn something new about yourself.