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The first scene reminds me of many events in the world and how police targeting the black community is how it is now. It is about how worried his mom is for him walking out of the house alone that really shows how baad society is today. I don't notice many similarities between my neighborhood and Jeromes. I think the book starts off with his death to give the main plot to the rest of the book.

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The scene in the first chapter does not remind me of anything in my life and the neighborhood doesn't look like my neighborhood. I think the novel begins with Jerome's death because it can have very important context and it can maybe make the whole story have a deeper meaning

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The first chapter of Ghost Boys does not remind me of an event that occurred in real life. My neighborhood differs from the one Jerome is raised in due to having safe surroundings and safe and careful people around me. I think that Ghost Boys begins with Jerome's death due to explaining it differently in another chapter or from someone else's opinion. -Alexandra

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For the scene in Chapter 1, I don’t know enough yet to say if it reminds me of an event in real life.

It’s hard to answer because I don’t know enough about what happened, and why Jerome was shot. About their neighborhood, Jerome’s grandmother says “in this neighborhood, getting a child to adulthood is perilous.”  Perilous means risky/dangerous.  This is very different from my neighborhood because mine is not risky or dangerous, as mine is always peaceful.  But his is clearly the exact opposite.  That must make him feel scared.  Maybe that is why the grandmother is worried about Jerome. I just can’t imagine being in that rough of a neighborhood every single day.          I think the author begins with Jerome’s death because maybe it would make us think about why he died, and wonder what happened.

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The scene in the first chapter does remind me of an event that occurred in real life which was the Tamir Rice incident where a child was threatened and killed by the police, similar to the scene in Ghost Boys. My neighborhood is quite different to the neighborhood Jerome is growing up because it seems far more safer. I think the novel begins with Jerome's death to create meaningfulness for the rest of the story.

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1) it does not remind me of my life but it does remind me of the Tamir Rice situation where he was shot for having a toy gun, and in this situation the officers thought he had a gun. My neighborhood is different from the neighborhood Jerome lives in because it is a lot safer since not as many incidents happen in my area. But is it similar in ways for other parts of the city/neighborhood because there are definitely sketchy areas that I have to look out for walking around. The novel probably begins with Jerome's death to give powerful context of the story and perspective.

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The scene in the first chapter doesn't remind me of anything that happened in real life. I think the novel begins with Jerome's death because it could be foreshadowing events that happen later in the book. (Corey)

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Some similarities from the book that happened in my life is that I had to navigate my way through the street because there were bad people to get to the train station which had even more of those types of people. Some differences that occurred in my life was that I had to travel a longer distance than Jerome. My neighborhood had a lot of sketchy things but not as bad as Jerome's. The novel started with Jerome's death to show how much people really cared about him when he was dead, then contrasted to when he was alive and how much people ignored him.

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The first scene in the first chapter reminds me of many events in the real world, one would be the death of Tamir Rice. Both of them were merely children when police saw them as a threat and decided to shoot them. Along with this, after Tamir's killing, police restrained his sister who was trying to go help him, and in the book, the boy's mom tries to help him but is restrained by police. Jerome's neighborhood feels different than mine because I usually don't notice drug dealers and meth labs around like he did. I think that the book began with his death to give context to the rest of the book.

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Calvin- 1. It reminds me of what we learned a few weeks ago about a 2 police officers shooting a kid with a toy gun, its very similar. 2. I don't see drunk people or people on drugs but they might be out at night 3. I think its starts off with this death to have flashbacks on his life or give perspective.

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Elisha-The scene in the first chapter does not remind me of anything that happened in real life. The neighborhood in the book is very different then mine because I don't think my neighborhood has anything that was described in the book. Him neighborhood seems rough and rundown. I think  the novel begins with his death to give the reader the ending in the beginning to give some perspective on the events that happen.