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Zuri’s Subborness of keeping culture interrupted the true meaning of change is necessary and was blaming it through classism, when in reality culture comes from everywhere

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Later in the novel Zuri’s dad confronted her fear with stating that it wan’t just the neighborhood that brough them together but the family. “Your mother and five beautiful daughters. The world could fall apart around me, but we are still a family. It doesn’t matter where we go. Bushwick will come with us. Don’t let your pride get in the way of your heart, mija.” (Zobai 176)

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Zuri still feeling for her culture learns to adapt and change for the better and relizes changes is necessary to grow.

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Later in the novel they sell there house then later Zuri and Darius returned “We get closer to my old building, and I notice that the crumbling sidewalk has been repaved. A tree stump that used to be there is now gone, and so is the rickety gate. My heart feels like it’s about to split in half. In about a year, I won’t recognize this place.” ( Zobai 188)

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Zuri struggling with expecting change is due from classism in the novel, from her overall close minded instinct she was afraid of losing the culture she had with her neighborhood.

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Ultimately, the protagonist shows pride over her community but has a difficult time adjusting to the new wealthy neighbors moving in on the block which requires change.

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Zuri felt fulfilled within her very dominant Hatian, Domicanian community, as well as the family being very active to support it. From the tightly knit block parties to cooking meals for the neighborhood which was almost like tradition. “The block party is something we’ve been putting together for the last couple of years, ever since Mama became the one-woman planning committee of the block association. She manages to bring together the ladies on Jefferson and Bushwick to cook and set up a few tables at the other end of the block, while Papi and his homies set up grills on the sidewalk and large coolers of beer near our stoop” (Zoboi 31).

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Zuri comes from a hard-working and supportive family in a poverty stricken neighborhood, which is shown when she states her dad works two jobs to support the family, “Mama and Papi are either always working or always tired with his two jobs and mama with all the housework” (Zoboi 63).

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The book takes place in modern-day Bushwick, New York. Whilst enduring the not-so-nice parts the novel helps express genrefication in modern times. The state had become a diversified region with varying social classes and ethnicities.

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Zuri struggles with an internal conflict of being self-conceited and leaving her neighborhood to the “outsiders.” Zuri influenced the plot in a negative view which she learns to overcome later in the novel once she becomes romantically involved with Darius. Her discriminatory attitude towards him for his lifestyle creates a realization of hypocrisy on her end, and therefore, creates a optimistic view on accepting gentrification as her attraction for him grows.

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Darius’s actions contribute to the moral dilemma Zuri is faced with, Zuri feels she has to almost put up a front front the real her so no one can damage her this is stated “Out of the corner of my eye, I catch Darius shaking his head, as if this whole scene is nonsense. I turn to him and shake my head too, letting him know that we are on the same page, that everybody except him and me is being ridiculous. But he doesn’t return the gesture. He looks away. Whatever.” (Zoboi 17)

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The family’s wealth strikes Zuri in a threatening manner, being that the Benitez family works hard but still falls short financially. Her closed mindset creates a stubborn barrier she’s unwilling to shake. Which is shown when Darius saves Zuri from getting hit by a biker. “‘Uh, you can let go now,’ I say. ‘Right.’ Darius releases his hand. ‘You’re welcome, by the way.’ ‘Oh, thank you,’ I mumble, trying to be polite. He steps away from me, and his face is a little more relaxed now, but I can still smell his stank attitude. Thanks, but no thanks, I say in my head” (Zoboi 16).

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In Pride by Ibi Zoboi, the protagonist, Zuri Benitez, is the second oldest daughter of the Haitian-Dominican Benitez household. Throughout the novel, Zuri becomes conflicted with accepting societal changes as she begins to perceive gentrification in a critical view.  The main conflict arises once a new family arrives on the block, the two main characters being Ainsley, and Darius