In the novel we read about rachel and we follow her life as she grows into an adult. We don't find out till later that fate has brought brick back into her life. She is brought to work for her deceased aunts fiance at a place where he helps people with drug and alcohol addictions get back on their feet. It is here that she meets a young white boy, the same age as her. And she beings to discover that the stereotype she has for white people, was completely changed by how this young boy acted. She then says how she discovers there are two sides to white people and two sides to black people.
Rachel is still struggling with the loss of her mother and her grandmother is beginning to act strangely now. Drinking all the time and talking about death more and more, her world is changing. It is at this time also where brick is beginning to struggle within himself to finally tell rachel what he had waited to tell her. The words her father told him, but he is struggling with finding the right way to do that.
Cali Simmons (post 8)
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