ROAR Blog #2:Grace After Midnight

Courtney Patterson
ROAR Blog
Oct. 8, 2009

ROAR Blog #2

Summary:
In the book Grace After Midnight: A Memoir by Felicia “Snoop” Pearson and David Ritz, Felicia learns at a young age about revenge. One day while Felicia “Snoop” was watching dishes, there was someone knocking at the door and when she answered there was a guy who called himself “T.” He wanted to speak with Snoop’s cousin, so Snoop went to get her cousin. Her cousin told Snoop that he was coming out of the bathroom, but when he came out of the bathroom he would regret it. “T” had shot Snoop’s cousin and paralyzed him. “T” had shot Snoop’s cousin because he was getting his sweet revenge. After that day Snoop had realized that anybody could try to get their revenge on her at any day or anytime, but this didn’t stop Snoop from running the streets and doing what she wants. Mama and Pops still didn’t think that Snoop was a bad kid, but there were also other people that wanted to protect and care for Snoop like Mama and Pops did. There was a man that Snoop met that she called “Father,” but he wasn’t related to her. He was the king of the drug game and Snoop admired that he was so powerful. There was another person who wanted to take care of Snoop and her name was Denise, but she is also known as Snoop’s Godmother. A few days later Snoop experience her first sexual relationship with a women thanks to Uncle and Snoop also witness death up close for the first time, when Pops dies of cancer. This event lend to Snoop slowly sprawling out of control, because she joined gangs and started fighting more often.
The pages that are being summarized are from #45-67.

The Quote:
Snoop said:“Menace II Society was another story that spoke our language. Probably the freshest was New Jack City. We saw that one until we knew every line. Wesley Snipes chewed that up, Ice T was cold, and Chris Rock had us believing he was a f***ed-up crack head. We were seeing our lives up there.” (Pearson and Ritz 66).


Reaction:
My reaction to this quote is that Pearson and Ritz, (the authors) used the literary term of allusion to express Snoop and her friends’ lives to a movie. They wanted to show the readers how difficult and dangerous their life was, so the movie New Jack City had expressed that perfectly. This quote connects to the story as a whole because Pearson’s life was hard and she had seen many of the same events happen in her life that had took place in the movie that she describe her life to.