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People start pitying Rashad or start to move towards his side once they found out what happened to him, a huge beating causing in fractured ribs and internal bleeding causing him to need surgery. Even so, people still take the side of Paul just because they know him such as Guzzo and his friends not including Quinn and Jill. Quinn starts to realize that no, he shouldn't walk away, but do something instead instead of

The beginning of the book is quite surprising as one of the main characters, Rashad's, father kept telling him to go into the military as "there's no better opportunity for a black boy in this country than to join the army" (Reynolds 6). His dad keeps trying to push him to go into it but I think it's quite strange that he does.