... 't end up going there for quite some time because the family he lived with liked him so much. At this phase in Malcolm's life he did really well in school; he was voted class president, even though he was the only black child in his class. At the end of this phase of his life, Malcolm ... sent to prison. While he was exploring the city he met a man named Shorty, who was also from Lansing, in a pool hall. Shorty got Malcolm got his first job, as shoe shiner at a dance hall in Boston. The job, though, was more selling booze and reefer, and lining up girls for "johns", than shining shoes .....

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... her surroundings. Whites would comment or act cold to her without even thinking twice about their effects. For example, at one point in the book, Pecola has three pennies in her shoe, which she has been saving to buy Mary Janes. On the way to the store she passes some dandelions "Why, she ... wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they were pretty." In the store, the owner, Mr. Yacobowski "looms over the ... Claudia, like Pecola's thoughts. Morrison uses these combined voices to give different perspectives without resorting to preaching. She wants her readers to participate ful...

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• Grade Level: High School