chapter 4 response

Chapter 4 response



Always Outnumbered Ch.4 Interpretive Question"You looked right through me brother. You across the street gettin' your nut offa that girl right in front'a me like I was some kinda animal, like I didn't even matter at all." p. 61Place this quotation in context and explain how it relates to characters, events and themes in the novel. Use specific examples from the text to support your points.


In this chapter Socrates talks about how people don’t notice him or just ignore him because of his appearance. Socrates is described as being a person with a very short temper. Socrates has a habit of reacting in a violent manner toward the smallest on things. “There was a time that Socrates would have hurt a man for ignoring him the way Ralphie did”. In this chapter t Socrates talks about how he almost got in a fight with Richie fo looking at him in a negative way. It was only because of Socrates practice at controlling his Fists that he was able to restrain himself . “he looked Ralphie in the eye, givin him one last chance to be civil”. This is an example of when Socrates did not jump to the conclusion that the person was asking for a fight and restrained himself. Instead of getting into a physical fight with Ralpie. Even after Ralphie began to insult Socrates after he started talking to him by telling Socrates“” im letting you stay here cause nobody should be out in no rain like this”. When Socrates says "You looked right through me brother. You across the street gettin' your nut offa that girl right in front'a me like I was some kinda animal, like I didn't even matter at all." He is talking about a person that he feels is a hypocrite because just a moment before he started talking to Socrates “he wouldn’t even say boo” to him.