Makes Me Wanna Holler (6) ~ pgs. 237-276~

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• Nathan continues going to college and he graduates but does not go to his own graduation which he now regrets.


• He briefly becomes a Muslim and gets briefly married to Yvette becasue Muslims were supposed to be married.


• He landed a job as a reporter for The Virginian Pilot Ledger Star and was surrounded by whites but they were not a hostile as when he was growing up.


• He had to modify his pimp and stumbled a lot while doing so.


• Nathan gets his own aparment and meets his father for the first time in his life.

4 Questions

• Why didn't Nathan's father care about him?


• Why was it so hard to find a job?


• Where did Yvette eventually go to after the divorce?


• Does Nathan want to go to Florida and visit his 9 yr old son?

3 Vocabulary Words

• assimilate-to take in and incorporate as one's own


• amorphous-lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless


• gregarious-fond of the company of others; sociable.

2 Literary Terms

• The way Nathan describes his feelings towards his father without actually saying anything.
• Nathan foreshadows a lot of things that are to happen chapters later in the book.

1 Overview sentence
Nathan starts readjusting to life and he is beginning to realize that his past is far behind him.