ROAR Blog #3:Grace After Midnight

Courtney Patterson

October 13, 2009
ROAR Blog

ROAR Blog #3

Summary:
         In the memoir Grace After Midnight by Felicia “Snoop” Pearson and David Ritz, Felicia “Snoop” found out that her mother had die and she didn’t know how to mourn over her death, because she only seen her biography mother a few times in her life. Snoop thought about her mother’s beauty and how she was so addicted to drugs, but Snoop knew that she was not like her mother. She said that she was not a fool to take drugs like her mother was, so Snoop turned to danger as her way of addicted. Mama started to notice that Snoop was doing dangerous things and she tried to talk to Snoop about how she shouldn’t be running the streets, but Snoop didn’t listen. Uncle was another person who warned Snoop about her dangerous ways, but even after Mama and Uncle tried to warn Snoop, she still continued to fight, have a gun, and hang out with the wrong crews…until it went too far.
          Snoop started to have dreams about a lead bat, but she didn’t have a clue what it could mean. One of her dreams was that she was driving in a car when a lead bat would fly through her window and hit Snoop. The dreams continued until one day Snoop was walking and minding her own business when she noticed a fight that was happening down the street. Snoop decided to get a closer look at the fight, because there was a sense of danger that she like about it. When Snoop arrived at the fight, a girl noticed her and she came swinging a lead baseball bat at Snoop. Snoop cried for the girl to stop, but she continued to swing the bat at Snoop, so Snoop decided that it was going to be her or this girl. Snoop pulled out her gun, but the girl did not back down and Snoop decided to pulled the trigger. The girl was shot and she fell to the ground, dead.

*Summarize of pages 70-83.


Quote:
        Snoop said:“The eyes. The eyes always give it away. This stranger’s eyes are showing nervousness. And before we know it, he starts shooting at B.”
(Pearson and Ritz 76).



Reaction:
          The authors Felicia “Snoop” Pearson an David Ritz’s style continued to say the same throughout the chapters because they add in a lot of details, but they are still right to the point when that write. This is an important quote because Snoop was always good at guessing what someone might be thinking or going to do next, so this always put her one step ahead of everybody else. This trait that Snoop developed had allowed her to get away from danger at the right moments and it had helped to save her life.