Analysis Of Jaqueline Woodson's After Tupac And D Foster

After Tupac and D Foster, by Jaqueline Woodson, is the story of a twelve year old girl and her two friends who were hearing everything on the radio about Tupac going down. Set during the 1990s in Queens, New York after Tupac Shakur had just been shot the first time. They don’t become friends instantly because if Neeka’s unfriendly attitude. Once they become friends the three girls get heavily influenced by Tupac’s music.

The narrator and Neeka were raised on their block in Queens. Neeka and the narrator develop a friend ship with D who is a foster child. During the two years of their friendship they keep up to date with Tupac’s shootings and trials. Then finally when summer is to its end D’s mother comes to claim her, so Neeka and the narrator

never see her again.

The importance of friendship is that friends will always come and go but family stays, and one can learn that from After Tupac and D Foster. Ever though it is sad that Tupac died an even more saddening thing is that Neeka and the