Roar Blog #4- Grace After Midnight

Courtney Patterson
ROAR Blog
Oct. 19, 2009
ROAR Blog #4
Summary:
In the memoir Grace After Midnight by Felicia “Snoop” Pearson and David Ritz, Felicia “Snoop” commits murder when she tries to defend herself. After she killed the victim, “Father” and “Uncle” warned and tried to keep Snoop away from her neighborhood because it was too dangerous for her to be there. Snoop didn’t like the plans that Father and Uncle had for her, so in time she went back to her neighborhood. Snoop was arrested and put into city jail, but Snoop didn’t like jail, so she tried to escape. One of Snoop’s roommates got the plan from TV and the plan was to make a hole in the wall, so they could use sheets to help them land safely on the ground. Snoop had another roommate that went by “S” and she told one of the officers about Snoop’s plan to escape, so Snoop was sent to administrative lock 23/1.
While Snoop was in her jail cell she had a dream that something bad was going to happen because in her dream she was looking for someone, but she couldn’t find them. In her dream there were many rappers on the Las Vegas Strip and they were at a party with Snoop, but someone was missing. Snoop started to look for the person who was missing, but she couldn’t find them. A few weeks after Snoop’s dream, 2Pac who is Snoop’s idol, was gunned down in Las Vegas. Snoop was crushed because she met him before and she also looked up to him.
After Snoop lost her idol, she had to face the judge that determined her future. Snoop’s lawyer tried to get her the best deal, but there was a witness that was willing to testify against Snoop. The trail was put on hold for two years and when the witness finally testified, Snoop knew that she was going to lose the case, so she took the best deal that she could get. Her sentenced was reduced to second- degree murder and she received 8 years in jail. In the first five years of her sentenced she was without parole and the other three years she had a possibly for parole. When Snoop was sentenced, she was 15 years old and she thought that she was going to be 20 years old when she got out of the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women in Jessup.
*(Pages summarized is #94-104)


Quote:
Snoop said:“For those of us sitting around city jail, it was like the President was shot. Only worse. We couldn’t relate to the President. But all of us could relate to Pac.”
(Pearson and Ritz 99).


Reaction:
The authors Felicia “Snoop” Pearson and David Ritz’s style of writing is very frank. Their style is frank because they express themselves by telling the readers how they feel without adding in pointless details. This quote also express how Snoop and people she knew felt about 2pac. He had a good impact on his fans’ lives and they felt like they could relate to him, because he was just like them. This is a quote that is important to the memoir because 2Pac was Snoop’s idol and 2Pac also went thought some of the same events that Snoop had to experience.