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"I think it would be best . . . if we went our seperate ways? And those paths never again . . . connected."

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"Ummm, why would the black guy need to ask her dad, but the white guys don't?"

- This was a question asked after peter said a black kid would have to ask his dates father for permission to take the girl out, although not the white kids.

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" 'Sir?' The security gaurd stood and turned. 'You do not have the right to interfere with a crime.' "

- The security gaurd assumed Emira, a black woman, was commiting a crime when he saw her alone with a white toddler.

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"I dont need you to be mad it happened. I need you to be mad that it just like . . . happens"

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Connection: Such a fun age and the hate u give

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Connection: Such a fun age and the hate u give

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While these books are very different in some ways, they still connect. The books both show incidents of racial inequality at the beginning. They follow the protagonist through the aftermath of the situation, and show them trying to get back to living their lives normally.

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“Emira considered the fact that because she hadn't let Mrs. Chamberlain endorse or even entertain a breakup with kelley, that the mother of two had potentially done this leg work on her own”

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“But yes, we’d obviously make this a full-time job since you’d be giving your other position up.”

- Alix offers this job only because she wants to get closer to emira, and be considered her family. This comes from an unhealthy obsession she forms for Emira.

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"Of course she'd planned to write them in all her favourite cafes and resturants in New York City, but she'd been busy googling kelly"

- This is where Alix began to spiral out of control. Her obsessions with Kelley and Emira caused her to neglect the first 50 pages of her book, shwoing that her obsession has began to hurt her own carreer.

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"Alix had left her daughter at home."

- This quote is short and simple, although there is a lot behind it. She had left the house for hours to confront Kelley, forgetting her 1 year old baby doing so. She left the baby alone for over an hour accidentally because she was so consumed with her obsessions with Emira and Kelley.

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"The Penn State man came up and into view. His cell phone was rasied and recording in front of his chest."

- This comes from the incident at the grocery store where Emira was accused of kidnapping the child she was babysitting due to her race. I feel like the fact that someone thought to record the interaction shows how often law enforcement is bias against people of colour.

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"Emira screamed, 'You're not even a real cop, so you back up, son!' "

- This is an example of Emira's character. Strong, brave, powerful.

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Emira values her career and livelyhood very much. She spends the book worried about advancing in career while other characters worry about her incidident at the grocery store.

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" 'You don't wanna touch her, dude,' Penn State warned 'She's not resisitng. She's calling the kid's dad.' "
Kelley is filming Emira's interaction with the security gaurd. As well, this is Emira's first impression of Kelley.