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The novel concrete rose by Angie Thomas, is about a man named Maverik that lives in the hood and has a baby but is worried because he has to take care of this baby and have to go through school and his job all with the help of his family and friends. Maverik has a girlfriend but is scared to tell her about the baby because he had the baby with another girl.

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In the novel Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas, it is about a teenage boy, Maverick, who lives in the Garden Heights. He goes the Garden High but is currently still on his summer vacation. He deals drugs for the local gang the Kings Lords. He dont sell the hard drugs and pills. His cousin Dre doesnt let him sell those because he doesnt want his little cousin getting into big troble with people and the police. But Mav goes behind his back and finds another plug with his bestfriend King. With their new plug and selling weed from the king lords, they are both making a lot of money. Mav is making so much money he buys his girlfriend Lisa a gold necklace with diamands that have her name on it. She questions Mav on how he gets the money but he lies and says he does yard work around the neighborhood. After this Mav goes to the clinic with his mom to get results back from a DNA test to see if he has a kid with a girl named Iesha. This is big because Iesha is Kings girlfriend and they named the baby after him. So this could cause conflict between Mav and King.  Mav had sex with Iesha when Lisa and him broke up, but now there is suspicion that her baby is Mavs. When they get the results back they find out that Mav is the dad and he is shocked. But he has to man up and take this duty, so he takes his kid to change him in the clinics bathroom. When he comes out, he finds that Iesha and her mom left without notice and left the baby to Mav.
This is what I read last week

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In the novel "concrete rose" by Angie Thomas a lot of things happened in the first few chapters. It started off with Maverick and his friends playing basketball at the park but maverick and his friends were all drug dealers although they are only teens in high school. In the beginning of the chapter he was on his summer vacation so he had plenty of free time and in that free time him and his best friend king decided to sell more hard core drugs besides weed behind Dre's back (his cousin) to make more money and with that money maverick would buy things for his girlfriend Lisa. Lisa was curious on how he was getting so much money to buy stuff for her so she started questioning him but he lied to Lisa and said he was going around doing yard work around the neighborhood to make extra money. King and his girlfriend Iesha had a baby and named him after king but everyone was saying the baby looked a lot like maverick so maverick and his mom went to the clinic with Iesha and her mom to get a DNA test to see if the baby was his since Maverick and Iesha hooked up before they both got together with different people and the baby turned out to be mavericks and not kings so that could cause problems between them since king thought the baby was his. Once they got the results back that the baby was mavericks the baby started crying a lot because he had a full diaper so Maverick and his mom went to the restroom to go change the baby but when they come out the restroom they see that Iesha and her mom weren't there anymore. They had left the diaper bag full of a lot of clothes and diapers and the car seat was also left behind and that's when maverick and his mom knew they left the baby with him so it could be his responsibility and not Iesha's

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In the Novel Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas, an African American teenage boy, Maverick, lives in Garden Heights. (Basically the hood) He attends Garden High and has some shady business with a gang, The King Lords, dealing drugs on the side to make some extra cash. They don't sell hardcore drugs like crack or needles because of Maverick's cousin, just encase the feds don't catch him with the really illegal stuff. However, young immature Maverick has to go behind Dre's back and sell marijuana from a private dealer just so that he could buy stuff his mom can't afford, like new shoes and gold chains or other expensive items. Later on, Maverick goes and takes a DNA test to see if he had a kid with the school thot, turns out he does all from one small broken condom. Going forward he has to juggle drugs, being in a gang, school, a relationship, and raising a kid.

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The book has a lot of different types of conflicts and new characters as you read the book. At the start of the book, the main character(Maverick) is having a happy life during the summer but once school comes back Maverick has a baby and a new job. So he has become busier as time went on in the world. Maverick new child is a boy named Seven he is 3 months old. Maverick also has a new job working for Mr. Wyatt in his store or garden every day after school to have enough money to rise Seven.

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Some conflicts are that Maverick was lying to his friends and girlfriend that he wasn't selling any other drugs to get money. Maverick got another girl pregnant (Iesha) while they both had someone already. Iesha leaves the baby to Maverick for a while and it's been stressing him out trying to afford a lot of things. Lisa (mavericks girlfriend) broke up with maverick since she was upset with him that he had a baby with another girl. Dre got shot in the head multiple times and he had a daughter. Maverick was planning on finding the person who shot dre and kill them and that will lead to more problems.

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Brief summary from where we left off, Dre convinced mav to stop selling drugs on the side and start looking out for his kid. He wants Mav's kid (seven) to have a clean father so the feds don't have any reason to take him away from him. For mav to even make some profit to afford baby supplies for seven, he'll have to work for Mr. Wyatt. It's hard labor, but honest work. From time to time Mav does see Iehsha, but every time he asks if she's ready to take back seven she always has some sort of excuse, "I'm still recovering mav, it was tough taking care of him all by myself." or "Mav my parents kicked me out of the house and I'm barely able to take care of myself." Then mav would see her some other time, going shopping, wearing expensive clothing and heels for no big deal.

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Just a little recap from where we left off, Iesha left the baby with Mav and now him and his mom have to take care of this baby. During this time Mav finds out that parenting is very difficult and can be very frustrating. He has to change dipars, clean up messes, stay up all night when the baby cries or cant go to sleep. But when it gets really hard his mom will help him here and there. Eventually his girlfriend lisa finds out and she gets pissed and ignores Mav for a long time. But as he was taking care of his baby, he was worrying about Lisa and school was about to start. He also quit selling drugs because his older cousin, Dre who also sold drugs, didnt want that life for Mav. So he got him a job at Mr. Carters little grocery corner store. He would work there everyday after school and get sundays off just to have money to help his mom with the rent. Dre was good to Mav, he would help with the baby, whos name is now Seven, he would buy Seven all kinds of different clothes and toys. But one day Dre came by to have a pizza with Mav in his car. As they were eating, Mav heard seven crying so he went into the house to check on him. Next thing you know, Mav heard gunshots. At first he didnt think nothing of it because it was normal to him. But then he remembered Dre was outside. Mav ran out and found his cousin has been shot in the head bleeding out. Mav was devastated. He didn go to school or work for weeks. He finally had the courage just to get up and go to dres funeral. He told shawn he was gon kill the person that did this to dre but shawn just laughed. This made fre really mad but lisa was there to cool him off. She took him to her house and they did the thing. Thats all i Read so far
One conflict that was human vs. self was when Mav had to bring himself together to tell his gf Lisa that he had a baby with another girl.
One example of human vs. human was when Dre had to tell Mav straight up that he didnt want Mav to sell drugs because it was to dangerous and he should get a real job.
One example of Human vs, socitey was when Dre was killed, Mav wanted to get back at the person who killed him, but all of the king lords didnt believe him and was making fun of him just because he was a little teenage boy and didnt think he was capable of it,

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From the last time, I typed a summary to now a lot of different things had happened. Maverick is now in school and is working for Mr.Wyatt to make more money for Seven while Iesha is still gone after leaving Maverick with Seven. Because Iesha is gone Maverick has to do so much more work to take care of Seven so he is tired all the time. One day Maverick's cousin Dre came over to keep Maverick mind off of things so they decided to hang out for the day. Once the day was over Maverick here a loud bang outside and see that Dre got shot in the head and is bleeding out. In the next chapter Maverick and his family are at Dre's funeral and Maverick is sad and mad that his cousin is dead and he wants to find out who killed him and he wants to get revenge

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From where I left off, After Mav and Lisa had sex, they heard Lisas mom come into the house, so Mav had to hurry and put his clothes back on so he did and snuck out the window. When he got outside, he said "I love ypu" to lisa but she didnt it say it back. All she said was "Ok bye". This made mav overthink. He thought since she didnt say it back that she didnt like him. But they had just had sex so he really didn't know whaty to think. After the funeral he finally went back to  school for the first time since dre's death. When he got there he found out that king was still selling drugs from other dealers, but since mav wasnt doing it with him anymore, king brought in Junie and Rico, kids from Mavs school, to deal drugs with him. On that same day, A gd that goes to his school was making fun of Dre's death and him and Mav got into an argument that made Mav leave. He left school and Shawn picked him up. Shawn wanted to talk about what happned at the funeral and told mav that he didnt want him going to kill the person who he thought killed dre becausee thats not what dre would have wanted for him. Dre wanted mav out of this gang life and out of the drug dealing. But to calm his mind, he smoked a joint with shawn. Thats all i  read so far.
Mav story starts with him and lisa breaking up some time ago. He was mad so he had to take his mind off of things. So his friend King hooked him up with a girl named Iesha. They had sex one time and that one time he was wearing a condom. So he didnt think anything of it and got back with lisa. But during this he found out that iesha was pregnanat. But he also didnt think about this either because he thoiught it was Kings baby since they were together. But when the baby came out the baby looked just like mav. So they scedualed a dna test. Mav didnt think it was necassary because he thought he knew for a fact that this baby was not his. But when they went to the clinic, they found out that the baby was his and he now has a responsibility of being a parent. He now has to take care of a baby on his own because iesha left the baby with him. He has to learn the challenges of being a parent.

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From where I left off, Mav was high and he still had to go to work. He showed up to work and Mr. Carter already knew that Mav was high, but but he didnt say anything at first. He let Mav work then thats when Mav started to complain and thats when Mr. Carter went off on him and said that it is his fault he wanted to show up to work high. But then Mav yells that he did it to get Dre out of his mind. This made Mr. Carter quite but then he had to talk to mav and say that their are other ways he can deal with dre. He doesnt have to use drugs as a way out. And mav listned, he finished his shift and tried to to think about what happned with dre. The next day as dre was about to put seven to sleep, lisa shows up to his house, she tells him that she is pregnant and mav is shocked. Mavs mom comes home and they tell her and she isnt mad but she stays quite. She says this is a problem for mavs father. So she suggest they go see him. This is all i read so far.

One scene from the book that I chose was when Mav was explaining when him and Lisa has sex. I chose this scene because there are many song today that are about sex but there is one song that stood out to me and that was ¨The Take¨ by Tory Lanez which is describing what he wants to do with a girl when they are having sex. I linked the lyrics

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The Take Lyrics

[Intro: Chris Brown]
Take you down
What I'm about
Take you down
What I'm about
Take you down
I really wanna take you down
And show you what I'm about
Can I take you down?
Your body, body, oh
Your body, body up and down

[Verse 1: Tory Lanez]
I'm gonna put you in seven positions for seventy minutes, you get it, babe
You got a lot on your mind, and I wanna ease it up and lick it and slip it in
You do a light scream on that ice cream when I scoop it and dip it in
Unzippin' the tight jeans and that feminine hygiene is magnificent
Tryna show you, girl, I'm different
I get to lickin', and stickin', and lickin', and stickin' it
'Til the pussy get too wet and it's drippin'
And splittin' both them legs like dividends
If it ends up how I want it, then you'll end up sittin' all over my bottom lip, baby
The feelin' of fuckin' you, feelings all up in you
Make it hard for you to bottle 'em, baby
This dick is too big just to swallow it, baby
But still you do it like it's Thanksgiving
And you gobblin', gobblin', gobblin', gobblin', baby
Like what's a goon to a goblin, baby?
That pussy hotter than the summer June in Metropolis, baby
No hidin' it, baby
She know what it is when I come around
Let me take you down

[Pre-Chorus: Chris Brown & Tory Lanez]
It ain't my first time, but baby girl, let's get it in, yeah (Let it's get in, yeah)
Bump and grind, already know (Already know, oh)
I wanna take you down again (Take you down again)
Hit that rewind button, oh-oh (Oh-oh)

[Chorus: Chris Brown & Tory Lanez]
Now let me take you down
Really wanna take you down, you down, you down (Ooh)
Take you down ( I do), right now ( Right now)
You know I know how (Oh-woah)

[Verse 2: Chris Brown]
Come put that shit all on top of me, baby
I'm the one they feelin', so they copy me, baby
Got it copywritten, that's my property, baby
And the way that she whip it, it's drivin' me crazy (Huh)
Think I've been hittin' the lottery, baby
Buy you a Wraith, I'ma give you my safe
Put you in apartments, you parkin' in places
Yeah, that's the real-life Monopoly, baby
We got all night to get it right, babe
So let me play
We got our whole damn life, baby
So here we are, all alone in this room
Girl, you know what I came to do
Know you got me on your radio playin', old school CB
It's just me and you

[Pre-Chorus: Chris Brown & Tory Lanez]
It ain't my first time, but baby girl, let's get it in, yeah (Oh-woah, we don't need)
Bump and grind, already know ( You already know)
I wanna take you down again ( Oh-woah)
Hit that rewind button, oh-oh

[Chorus: Chris Brown & Tory Lanez]
Now let me take you down
Really wanna take you down ( I wanna take you down), you down, you down (Ooh)
Take you down, right now ( Right now)
You know I know how ( I know how), ooh

[Outro: Tory Lanez]
Ooh, yeah, love
I promise not to give it to nobody, babe (You know I)
And promise you won't give it to nobody, babe (Know I)
And promise when you promise, keep them promises (Yeah, yeah)
I promise not to give it to nobody, babe (Ooh, woah)
And promise you won't give it to nobody, babe (Oh)
And promise when you promise, keep them promises (Woah)
I promise not to give it to nobody, babe (If you feel me, let me hear you say)
I promise not to give it to nobody, babe (Yeah, yeah, yeah)
And promise you won't give it to nobody, babe (Ooh)
And promise when you promise, keep them promises (Woah)
I promise not to give it to nobody, babe (Keep your promises)
I promise not to give it to nobody, babe
And promise you won't give it to nobody, babe
And promise when you promise, keep them promises

Sampled from Chris Brown's 2007 hit "Take You Down", Tory Lanez and Chris Brown collaborate once again and drop a banger to show that they want to get into action with their girl.

This is the seventh collaboration between Tory and Chris and the third in 2019 after Tory was featured in Indigo with the songs "Lurkin'" and "Tell Me How You Feel".

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I didn't even think the song was going to make it. You've got to remember how people feel about 'Take You Down' and how much of a lovemaking classic it is. I wanted to make sure that I did something that was a little bit different, come with a different flow. I feel like the production on the second half is probably my favorite thing about the song.

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Steve Russell, Alo905, Rajah, Sergio R., Unoseason, Harvey Mason Jr., Damon Thomas, James Fauntleroy, My Guy Mars, Anthony Woart Woart Jr., Play Picasso, Chris Brown & Tory Lanez

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The Take Lyrics: Take you down / What I'm about / Take you down / What I'm about / Take you down / I really wanna take you down / And show you what I'm about / Can I take you down? / Your body

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After dre's funeral Maverick and Lisa went back to her house to get changed and Lisa realized Mavericks hair was a mess so she washed it and did his hair and after that they started tickling each other and ended up sleeping together. A couple days later Maverick went back to school and everyone was saying "sorry for your loss" and once he went to class his teacher told him to go to the counselors office to talk and ant(dre's possible killer) had said something that made maverick mad so he walked out the class and went home. Later on they went to the football game and maverick and king went to go get snacks and while they were doing that a fight broke out with ant and some other person so they were going at it then they heard gunshots and ant ended up getting shot and he died. After Maverick and Lisa hooked up they hadn't talked in a while so Lisa went over to his house to tell him she was pregnant and Maverick was stressing because hes going to have 2 babies already. When they told the news to Mavericks mom she didn't seem phased but then later on she says they should go visit mavericks dad in prison with seven(mavericks kid)

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In the novel Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas, a lot of things happened since the last summary. Maverick is now starting to feel better about Dre's death but he still isn't 100% okay. He went back to school with everyone feeling bad for him telling him "sorry for your loss" and "sorry your cousin died" are so on. Maverick almost gets into a fight with Ant the person who claims killed Dre but Maverick leaves the school and goes smoke weed with Shawn. Maverick is now at Mr. Wyatt's garden high and not working to his full potential. Mr. Wyatt was mad at Maverick for going to work high but Maverick says he was smoking because he wanted to get his mind off of Dre. Maverick and Mr. Wyatt have a bonding moment. Maverick goes to a football game where he sees Ant the person who killed Dre gets shot and killed.

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In the book Maverick just ditched school and he sees a big Mercedes Benz drive near him and it is Shawn about to hang out with him. The song money so big is about when you have a lot of money you can get more things you need for yourself and other people. The song and the scene are connected because Shawn was able to get more money for himself to buy a Mercedes Benz with extra stuff in the car.

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Since the last time I did a summary of the book, a good amount of things have happened. Lisa comes over to Maverick's house and tells him that she's is pregnant and Maverick's mom gets mad at him. Maverick and his mom decided that they need to go visit Maverick's dad so they go visit him. Maverick and his dad end up having an argument and Maverick leaves the prison mad. It is thanksgiving day and Lisa's brother Carlos comes over and beats up Maverick mad at him for getting Lisa pregnant.

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The quote that stayed with me throughout the book was in page 189 when maverick told his dad “I'm going to be there for my kids unlike you”. This stayed with me because it shows that Maverick is growing up to a man, and he is stepping up to his father.

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From where we left off, mav is finally starting to turn his life around, hes been staying in school, making clean money, and taking care of seven. Mr Wyatt's given mav three chances to not mess up his job, hes already been late and caught being high. Dre decided to stop by mavs place to check in on him, they're like best friends even though they are cousins. Anyways Dre decides to grab something from his car while mav was changing sevens diaper. While mav was singing a song to make seven laugh he hears  two gunshots right outside, he bolts out the door and finds Dre slumped against the steering wheel with a bullet in his head. Worst part was Dre was about to get married and has already got a 3 old little girl named Adreanna, to bad she'll never really get to meet him. Mavs having a real difficult time grieving over Dre, lisa tries to help mav get over  dre but one thing leads to the next and Mav ontop of lisa panting and going at it.  (had sex without protection)

One scene from the book that really stood out to me was when Dre was shot and killed, this was a huge part of the book and really developed the story. Anyways mav was having trouble with dealing with Dre's death so I decided to chose the song "Life Goes On" by 2pac. The song is about the streets taking people's lives, and how even though you lose someone, you can't take time to mourn because that's not what the victim would want you to do - they would want you to live your life because they're not coming back, very similar to what was happening in mavs life.

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Life Goes On Lyrics: How many brothers fell victim to the streets? / Rest in peace, young nigga, there's a heaven for a G / Be a lie If I told you that I never thought of death / My niggas, we the last

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When they go see Mavs dad, at first it was a good meeting, but it quickly goes south when his dad starts to go off on Mav's mom then starts to go off on Mav. Mav then goes of on his dad then storms out of the jail. His mom follows and they dont talk the whole ride home. When Mav gets home he gets into another fight with lisa where she says she doesnt need mavs help raising their baby and says some other harsh things. Mav just leaves. Then on thanksgiving, everyone in mavs family is at his house to celebrate. But once king shows up he bring iesha with him and mav is surprised. She asks to see their baby more often, but mavs mo cuts in and says she hasnt been in seves life after she left him, so they agreed on her seeing seven only one day a week. After all of this happens, lisas brother carlos pulls up to mavs house and beats him up, mav doesnt fight back because he thinks he deserves this.

Page 30. "your gonna do whatever you have to do, Maverick."
To me this means, at whatever cost, your gonna do anything and everything for your child or the people you love.

I think this book is underrated because not that many people heard of it and only have heard about the bigger book, "The hate you give" and they dont give this book a chance. I hope more people find this book because it is a really underrated novel.

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I feel like the book is underrated. I barely hear anyone talk about this book and if the book had a good amount of popularity it would of had a movie the The Hate You Give had.