Chapter 3 review

In this chapter  Rameck , has issues with his mother. Rameck struggled to forgive his mother for the reason she had ended up a heroin addict. His father was a heroin addict also but he forgave his father, or didn't blame his father as he did his mom. His father spent most of his childhood in and out of jail for doing petty crimes. Rameck grandmother house is where he had a stable home and felt most secure at which was located in Newark.

Growing up in his grandmother neighborhood was a great thing at first until the white and high class people started to see the community as a low value neighborhood and the a lot of low class families start to move in a then the gangs and drugs was introduces to that community. At Rameck grandmother house they shared the house with his aunts and uncles from time to time because his grandmother never turns away family. So with them being a close family they spent a lot of time together and Rameck became the family entertainer were they laughed and joked and had a good time with each other.

 His mother work hard and did the best she could from time to time, they would move out and in of his grandmother’s house when things got hard for them leaving his with a unstable home to live in through trying time. This means Rameck bounced from school to school sometimes until third and fourth grade 'were he was consisting with one school. Despite his mother using drugs she still forced him to do well in school. Rameck often helped his teacher Ms. Hatti do work in her garden as way for him to earn a few bucks.

 Racmeck was then introduces to Private school, because his mom wanted him to succeed in life she though he would get a better education there, but little do she know that's what sparked the problems. Rameck started Miss-behaving in class because he was ahead of the class from things he learned at public schools. the teachers recommended special education for him miss behaving not knowing the reason he was doing it, his mother wasn't having that she knew he just wasn't being challenged. Rameck soon got a car and started to visit his grandmother often and stay there on breaks from college.

 Rameck received a lot of guidance from her where she would rant and rave about his miss behaving but she kind of understood why it was happening his mother and father a heroin user and in and out of jail his father they gave him nothing to be proud of.

 Rameck grandmother speeches lead him to see that trouble was around him in his friends, that were selling dope and robbing people and going to jail they were stressed from knowing they would die doing what they were doing but had no choice. He knew school was hard but it would pay off some day. George grew up across the street in the apartments were his grandmother live but George was on a good path earning B's for his grades a lading a scholarship to assumption college were there were a hand full of black students. Despite his father using drugs he too guided Rameck to steer the other way and not end up like he did and Rameck admired what his father told him.

 His mother started using drugs right after she had his sister, Mecca the stress of being a single mother got to her. Rameck was still angry at his mother, and showed her no pity of the thing she had been thorough that lead her on the road to heroin. His mother accused him of loving his father more than he loved her, but that was not the case he just looked up to her more and didn't know why she was lead to that road and didn't know if she love him or the drugs more. His mother pushed him to work she said it taught him responsibility's, he work to buy himself the name bran clothes that his mother wouldn't buy. Ramcek was still hanging with the boys in Plain field where he caught trains to every weekend. He was introduced to George and Sam at university high later.