Chapter 4 review

George though that he and Sam and Rameck was drawn together for a purpose. Sam and George met in the seventh grade were they hit it off realizing they like they same things. They did their school work but insisted that they were not nerds.

They had a balance between school life and social life unlike the other kids at the school and that's why George liked Sam. They often learned together, and share stories about family's, and shared candy with one another, and talked about things that's was happening in their neighbor hoods with each other. They attended university high with one another that used to be named Malcolm X Shabazz High School that was later named university high. By end of seventh grade Sam and George had became very good friends, and hung out regularly during lunch. George also attended school with R&B singer Faith Evens, and they were close friends when he was at Spencer elementary, he liked her but, with her being so mature she looked at his as a little brother and showed no interest of a boy friend and she would tell him of her problems. George spent most of his time after school playing video game with his friend Shahid Jackson, and football in the apartment complexes were they lived they had two groups from the community. The good and the bad kids I would call it. The bad doing things that George and the good one wasn't willing to do like sell drugs drink beer and steal. But later found that Sam was having a difficult time staying clear of the bad boys doing thing they were doing at times. With Sam's engaging personality he attracted lots of friends were his loyalty was often tested, and had to fight to prove it. George was the quietest one of them all, the take me as I am or leave me type. He believed that protected him from the others. They didn't ever try to persuade him to do wrong and they didn't pick at him because of who he was. Sam and George graduated eighth grade with each other, but didn't become very close until his junior year. Rameck arrived the next year after eighth grade.

George also felt like Rameck, and no longer felt challenged in school because the work was much easier than seventh and eighth grade, and his academic performance started to slip away from him. George still made average grades but however he could have did better he states if he worked harder. Sam who had graduated number three in his eight grade class grades had began to look average also. Rameck who made A's and B's their freshman year grade also had dropped too. They all had begun to skip classes which were common practice among students at his school because they knew they could get away with it. Rameck was starting to hang back with his crew from Plainfield kids from his uncle neighborhood, and then later he became friends with Hasaan and Ahi, sons of acclaimed poet and human-rights activist Amiri Baraka. Rameck had still doing the things that the kids from plainfield were doing robing and beating up people for fun. Rameck was very smart he would Miss behave in class one minute and pass a test the next.