Makes Me Wanna Holler (2) ~pgs.66-88~

5 Comments

• High School was a turnig point for Nathan McCall.
• Nathan was "this" close to killing a guy with a gun.
• Nathan was "this" close to dying from being badly beaten by a rival gang.
• Nathan fired a gun into a crowd of a rival gang and the bullet grazed someones hand.
• The war between the Down town boys and the Manor screwed up members love lives.

4 Questions

• Why didn't Nathan get in trouble by a cop for carrying a knife?
• Did Nathan break up with Nita?
• Does he still have feelings for Denise?
• Why can't Nathan just admit that he loves his gang members? (brotherly love)

3 Vocabulary Words

• Arsenal-a collection or supply of weapons or munitions
  
• Clash-to come together or collide
  
• Intuitive-capable of being perceived

2 Literary Words

• descriptive writing- the way Nathan descrided his own beating
• foreshadowing-when Nathan talks about when his brother joined the army in the future.
  

1 Overwiew Sentence
1. Nathan is evolving into a true gangster and he is beginning to learn that, with a gun, the power to kill someone is literary at his fingertips.