Imagery In Spear

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In the story “Spear” t you can see Spear, the main character, start to build his own opinion on things, start to grow outside his shell and not follow his dad's footsteps. In the beginning he walks into African-American Literature and many of his friends are there, all of them being black. He greets all of them and they all are happy to seem him. He is kind of the leader of all of them and is looked up too by most. He then sees a white girl in the front of the class which is really shocking to him. Then he says, because he's their (as in his fellow african americans) leader, “This is African-American lit, right?” He asked no one in particular, but it was directed at the white girl. This is the beginning where he is still following his dad's footsteps and is …show more content…

They were antagonizing her, and then all of a sudden Spear steps in and yells “Chill”. He was startled to hear his own voice the story said. It was because he was so mad and sad, but couldn’t explain why. This is the first part of the story when you see the self confusion show through. This surprises all of his brothers and sisters. Then they kept antagonizing the white girl. Spear responded to this by yelling “Leave her alone.” This made his friends mad so they yelled “Why don't you go sit with her.” He responded “Maybe I should.” This shocked people and made his friends mad. Then the teacher walked in before he could do anything. Throughout the class he kept looking at the white girl, but didn’t want to be caught looking so he shot secret glances. These acts by Spear are the beggining of him coming out of his shell and start to not follow his dad's footsteps. When he saw her after school he yelled to her and said “hi”, but he didn’t really know why he had reached out to her. He regretted saying hi right after. This is an example of more self confusion. He is confused why he made the decision to say

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