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Language
Use of slang and foreign language: "Nooo way, Lucky! I caught you slippin and I ain't having that shit in here! That's rule numero uno"

Characters:
Lucky
-  Mentally weak: "And I trusted YOU when you said you was cured! This is your second day back home and you're still smoking"

Dove
- Wants loyal workers: "Hop in. I got me a two bedroom apartment deuce blocks over. Y'all can stay with me." ..."Why'd you wanna help me?" "Maybe cause I like you"

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Setting

Takes place in a realistic place

"Dove sat in his coke-white Lexus at the entrance of Mosswood Park"

Is a public park in Oakland California

Came from a place with definite bounds/strict rules but when he gets trown out he ends up in the black community. It then takes place in two different social environments

" IS THIS YOURS?"

"Get your pack, get your sleeping bag and get out"

Language
Informal

"Really?, Shit, thanks man"
"Well, hurry the fuck up"
“Drug rehab my ass. I just got out of that motherfucker”
- Typical black community

Characters

Static

Brave

"Yeah I wanna work for you"

Naive

He does not question the fact that Dove offers him a bedroom

"Really? Shit, thanks man"

Lack of knowledge about the drug business

Lets the boy run

Gets jumped twice

"I got jumped again"

Trustworthy

Continues to tell the truth

" I got jumped"
"I got jumped again"

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Setting
“Get your pack, get your sleeping bag, and GET OUT! You’re waste of my money”
“I grew up in this hood” “Musta been a gang or somethin” ”Ain’t that just like white folks. Blamin gangs for everythin that go wrong” “The thin boy handed him a 38. revolver. Dove loaded and cocked it”

Language
“Well, hurry the fuck up! I ain’t got all day”

Characters
Lucky
“Hell, Dove would never know” he walked to a corner and rolled one of his special cigarettes.”
“Staring at a fuckin wall for five hours ain’t gonna stop me from doin anythin!”, “I...I got jumped again. They took i all i tried to fight”
“M-man, nobody ever gave a shit about me” I always been trash! Nobody ever trusted me.”

Lucky’s father
“Lucky’s father smacked the boy in the face with his fist” “The man’s eyes burned with anger”
“Get your pack, get your sleeping bag, and GET OUT! You’re waste of my money”

Lucky’s mother
“No, Bill” They didn’t cure my Lucky?”

Dove
“Ya see, on every run you did I had a dude watchin you.”
“Dove loaded and cocked it. You lied to me, Lucky.”
“Trust is trust no matter where it come from.”

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Language

“Just nuthin, what it is”

“That’s rule numero uno”

Characters

Lucky

“He always smoke his crack…”

“Drug rehab, my ass!”

Dove

“I got me a two-bedroom apartment ...”

“Dove checked his Rolex”

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“He was dressed in ragged 501 jeans with rotting Cons on his feet.”
“When ya get back, I’ll cruise you to Macy’s in Frisco and score you some new threads.”
“Its brick was streaked with soot, and it looked like if the wind blew hard enough the whole thing would come down, joining most of the other buildings in the neighborhood.”

“Lucky’s father smacked the boy in the face with his fist.”
“G-rats”
“Save your stories, dude.”
“yeah, i wanna work for you, Dove. Look, i’m out on the streets…”
“Lucky’s father smacked the boy in the head”

“Slowly, he raised the gun”

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Setting:
“A short ride while later, Dove swung his Lexus into a space in front of Macy’s clothing store in San Francisco”

Language:
“Drug rehab just got out of that motherfucker”

Characters    Symbolism
Lucky
“Drug rehab my ass. I just got out of that motherfucker”

“Does this belong to you…Lucky nodded…This is your second day back home and you’re still smoking”

“I paid a lot of money, the money that puts cloth on your back…”'

“I believed in you when you said you were cured.. and I trusted you”

“Staring at a fucking wall for five hours ain’t gonna stop me from doing anything

Lucky – symbol for unlucky – he does make his own luck

Dove:

“duh. Maybe you live up to your name. anything else you need?”

“Yo, better get head straight. You get a couple of runs. One dude hangs on Martin Luther … My last boy wore a black tee. That way the dudes know you with me”

“Trust is trust no matter where it come from. But you gotta earn it”

Dove – a soap name. He keeps himself clean by making others do the dirty work.

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Characters
Dove:
- Friendly ; “You got a place to crib?” He invites him home.

- Cares about trust; “You have to earn trust”

Lucky:
- Naive ; "Yo man, you treat all your runners this way?"

- Lack of respect; "Hell, Dove would never know" (smokes crack anyways)

Language:

- Very informal - “Just cause I white don’t mean I got things easy” grammar

"Just so happens i need me a runner"

Themes
Trust - "You have to earn trust"

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Setting:
“Oh an take this. You gonna need it sometime in this hood. Lucky took the black 45 Dove offered him”

Characters:
Lucky:
¨Drug rehab, my ass! I just got out of that mothafucka an I still a basehead”
“”Does this belong to you?” demanded Lucky’s dad. He stood in the doorway of Lucky’s bedroom, the Ziploc bag of crack dangling from his fingers.”
“Lucky’s stomach growled as he walked past restaurants. He wanted food, but needed more concrete candy.”

Dove:
“Hop in. I got me a two-bedroom apartment deuce blocks over. Y’all can stay with me”