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I chose the theme "love" because love is mentioned throughout the entire book. Wade's love for Angela, Jackson's love for Camellia, Wade's love and dedication to helping his students, and more importantly the love for baseball and Willie Mays.

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Without a doubt we know that Malcolm Wade and Phil Hutcheon love sports but more specifically, baseball.

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Phil Hutcheon said to me in Discussion 14 "Willie Mays represents to me the kind of man who brings people of all colors together. When he was in the army, he invited his white fellow soldiers to dinners at the homes of his black fellow soldiers--and this was years before MLK became a household name. The reference in TRIPLES  to white teammates who broke out of their own hotel to stay with him in the "colored" part of town tells you everything you know about the regard they had for him. And Obama's decision to honor him was the culmination of a noble and inspiring life." --Phil Hutcheon

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Despite all the crazy hurtful things Wade had gone through because of Angela he still took her back with no questions asked. Because he truly loves Angela.
"Angela,
Nothing to forgive. Please come home.
Love,
Wade

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Malcolm Wade's love and dedication to helping his students.

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"I want every young man in America to feel some strong peer pressure in terms of how they are supposed to behave and treat women." - Barack Obama (Chapter 2)

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"I love her, and God damn me for it." - Frank Sinatra (Part II: 2016)

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Camellia left Jackson for Johnny Dawes. Jackson wanted to beat Dawes's ass after finding out from Camellia that he had abused her.

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"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be." - Pip, on his love for Estella, Great Expectations (Chapter 19)