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Character Development/ Morality/ Lesson and Theme - Hellena Kara

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Character Development/ Morality/ Lesson and Theme - Hellena Kara

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The character development of Easy started as not as confident in himself as well as indenial of needing help to pay for his mortgage. Now Easy not only carries himself with more confidence, but Easy is quickly learning that he can not trust everyone he thought he could. This leads into morality. Easy at first did not care much about morals when taking the job because he needed money. Now Easy has quickly discovered the trouble he has gotten himself into was not worth breaking his morals yet it is too late. It is to late for Easy it seems like because Albright will not allow him to leave since Easy already took his money. This then leads to the theme of “Think twice instead of making irrational decisions”. If Easy would have thought more about his decision on taking the job, he would have never been in the predicament that he is in.

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we discovered that Easy is slowing starting to realize his surroundings and starts to question who he should trust. The main character Easy has decided to help Daphne Monet even though in the beginning of the novel he stated that he didn’t want to get involved with anything and that he was only doing it for the money.  A good theme for the book is to think twice before you get involved with someone.

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I think the theme is Good vs Evil. Easy would be coincided good because instead of being on Albright's side he switched and helped Daphne instead of turning her in. Albright is the evil one because he wanted someone else to do his job for him and was going after others.

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When Easy is fired from his job he comes across Albright who offers him a job. the job was to find Daphne Monet and knowing it's dangerous he still accepts it because he needs to make money somehow and needs to do it quick but after contacting some old friends he makes up his up and tries helping her instead of capturing her. The morality of the story was that Easy just wanted to get involved for the money because he needed a way to pay his mortgage once he saw it was unsafe he didn't want that job anymore

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Theme of the book/Character Development/Morality - McKenzie Suchy

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Theme of the book/Character Development/Morality - McKenzie Suchy

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In the second part of the novel, Easy is starting to question all the decisions he has made. A good theme for the book is to think twice before you get involved with someone. Easy is trying to help Daphne Monet even though that is putting him at odds with Albright. He is figuring out what Albright is having him do isn’t worth the money he is giving him. Easy is trying to escape the mess he brought himself into and rethinking if the decisions he made were right. He is trying to save himself becuase now he is a suspect in all these different murders. An example of this is easy tried to get out of this problem saying to Albright to take the money back he didn’t want to do this anymore and Albright if he took his money he belongs to him. This is when easy started to realized he got himself into a mess he cant escape from.

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Easy has developed a better understanding about everything going on around him, he soon figures out what he needs to do to get information and also know who to trust. Easy works for Mr.Albright for the money not really knowing what he is having him doing and soon finds out is it wrong and try’s to help Daphne out after finding out why Mr.Albright actually wants her found because it is morally right. The theme for the novel could be survive strategy because Easy has to find ways get to by on his own by making friends with connections and always being aware of his surrounding so he can keep himself safe.

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The main character Easy Rawlins is at first an easy going, witty man that just happened to lose his job but came upon an unfamiliar case that he was asked to solve, after the help of some friends, we see in the end of the book how he switched sides from trying to capture Daphne to helping her and how he wants to be morally correct through the whole situation. He retains his easy going, witty nature but is left with some dirt on his hands from the storyline of numerous affairs and murders.

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Easy Rawlins is a very down to earth, simple man. He has the little he has and he is proud of it. He realizes throughout th

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Easy was only interested with teaming up with Mr. Rawlins to pay for his mortgage. He then realize that the tasks and events that was occurring was starting yo get big and unsafe for him. In chapter 15, Mr. Rawlins says, “You take my money and you belong to me”. Easy got himself into this mess and he can not escape from it, now rethinking if his choices were right.

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In the beginning of the novel, Easy was clueless and was looking for some sort of purpose to his life. Then he met Mr. Rawlins that completely changed everything. Easy is now more confident in himself and is developing his mind set more because since he is a suspect, he has to try and save himself.

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The main character Easy has decided to help Daphne Monet even though in the beginning of the novel he stated that he didn’t want to get involved with anything and that he was only doing it for the money.
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lesson/theme of the book - jennifer nguyen 

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lesson/theme of the book - jennifer nguyen 

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During the second half of the novel, we discovered that Easy is slowing starting to realize his surroundings and starts to question who he should trust. Since now he is a suspect in Coretta’s murder. A theme in the novel could be that you should think twice before you act or get involved with something/someone.