Stacey's Relationship With T. J.

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I believe that Stacey's friendship with T.J. is basically T.J. dragging Stacey around and getting him to do all of these things that Stacey would never do on a regular basis. In the book when Big Ma, Stacey, Cassie, and T.J. are in Strawberry and Big Ma goes to see Mr.Jamison T.J. gets Stacey to go to the mercantile with him to see a pearl-handled pistol. But their friendship can also be the other way around at times when T.J. wants to go do something bad and Stacey stops him. So in other words, it could be like Stacey is the father, always getting dragged around and also sometimes having to hold T.J. back or punish him, like how he beat him up and the Wallaces. And T.J. is the son always getting his dad to come and do things but also getting …show more content…

get away with so much because they are just best friends. Like when T.J. gets the new coat from Stacey and then he doesn’t have to give it back because his Uncle Hammer says so. And the entire time the book says that while Stacey is stopped by Uncle Hammer rules that “a man should not blame others for his own stupidity”, Stacey could have easily beat T.J. up somewhere secret and made him not tell anyone. But because they are friends Stacey let it slide. I also think that Stacey might not know something about T.J. that the rest don’t, I just think that Stacey is his friend and he also might let him get away with so much because T.J. isn’t as fortunate as Stacey and Stacey feels bad for him. After all, T.J.’s family doesn’t own their own land, they have to sharecrop on Harlan Granger's land, and T.J. has to live with even more brothers and sisters than him and also in a smaller house. That is why I think that Stacey even hangs around …show more content…

Even though the kids laugh at him and beat him up at school and in his own house, he still will not give up the only friends that he has because he knows that if he does, he won’t have any friends at all. I also think that Jeremy gives gifts to the Logans, like the nuts,and one specially to Stacey, the flute, because he thinks that if he gives them presents then they will like him more so that all the beatings and teasings will be worth it because he will have a group of solid friends that he knows will not abandon him. Jeremy’s friendship with the Logans is so sincere because there is so much proof that he does want to be their friends from his bruises that they comment on when they’re walking to school, to the gifts that he gives them, it is obvious that he really does want to be their friend. But his friendship is so dangerous, like David Logan explained to the kids, that at the moment he is a nice young kid, but when he grows up in a couple of years he will think of himself as a man. But he will still think of Stacey as a kid, plus he might become racist, so he could turn on the Logan kids and hurt them mentally, or

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