“Sag Harbor” by Colsen Whitehead (pgs. 145-233)
Colsen still seems to be describing the scene of the novel. The narrator Benji, he begins to make some trouble in Sag Harbor..FINALLY some action! He gets caught stealing which seemed to give him a bad boy image. And from the skim of things he definitely wants to make a name for himself in the community. THE COOL KID! Because he got in trouble, he got a job at the ice cream polar to take on some responsibility. I am confused about the “black or white” question that is talked about. Benji and his brother seem to have a good brotherly love relationship. On the other hand, Benji’s position at the ice cream polar turns sour in her relation with the customer. He isn’t the friendliest guy at your corner ice cream polar. Of course, I see this bring more drama to the plot.
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Here’s part of an article about SAG HARBOR from the New York Times:
What distinguishes “Sag Harbor” from all those first novels that Mr. Whitehead spurned back in the ’90s is that it deliberately avoids a climax or big revelation. “I wanted to make it true to people’s experience of summer,” he said. “You have all these big dreams about how you’re going to become a new person, and at the end you’re only .001 percent smarter.” And “Sag Harbor” is set not in the moneyed, Hamptonish part of town but in the mostly African-American section of Azurest, where Mr. Whitehead’s family has summered since the 1940s.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/books/28cols.html?pagewanted=all
You should ask older folks about Sidney Poitier, the actor Benji thinks about when he opts not to steal stuff like the white kids he’s at school with. Then he’s tempted by all of the Coca Cola at that girl’s house and can’t help himself.
Benji starts working at Jonni Waffle because Reggie doesn’t make enough money at Burger King for them to buy stuff during the week while their parents are in the city, working. Is the “black or white” question you mention about his boss Martine? Because Martine is from the Dominican Republic and so light-skinned they’re not sure whether he’s black or white, the boys aren’t sure whether him patting Benji on his head is racist or not. I think it’s also important because Benji is trying to figure out how to be black when he spends the school year as the only black kid in his class.