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- The book starts out with Nathan at 15, beating up a white boy with a group of other black kids.
- The book officially starts out with Nathan moving to Cavalier Manor at 9 years old
- Before he started "hanging", Nathan believed that white people had more fun.
- Nathan went to a white school in the beginning of his 6th grade year but eventually had to move because they harassed him.
- When Nathan started to go to Waters with his older brothers, he started noticing everything. He wanted to become cool and so he stared "hanging" with about 15 boys and that's where the trouble started.
- Why was it such a big deal to Nathan at age 14/15 to be able to beat up people of his own race?
- If Nathans' parents did not give him a curfew, do you think he would be better off?
- Why didn't his parents stop him from "hanging" with his boys when he was caught stealing?
- Why doesn't Nathan mother not want to talk to him about sex and it's dangers due to the fact that she got pregnant a 13 with her first son?
- Scrimped- to be excessively sparing with or of.
- Incessant- continuing without interruption
- Napoleonic-pertaining to, resembling, or suggestive of Napoleon I
- personification- "I saw them eyeing us, and we returned the hostile glares." (McCall 66)
- allusion- "...we expected to pick up the mantle when our time came." (McCall 63)
- Nathan McCall starts out as a smart kid but as he gets older he begins living the life of a gangster.
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