A Hope In The Unseen Book Report

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A Hope in the Unseen
In the book A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind, he talks about the life of a young boy named Cedric who is attending Frank W. Ballou Senior High. He attends a school where people gets bullied for getting good grades, receiving awards for their grades, and being outcasts. Cedric went through hard times by being one of the smartest kids at his high school. He grew up with his mother being in a single household due to his father being in and out of jail then later on dying. Mr. Taylor who is Cedric’s mentor helped Cedric throughout his process of applying for the MIT summer program and helping him deciding which college he was gone attend. Ballou Senior High School played some role in his academic future because they did
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In the book it says, “The more practical effect is that the kids listed here become possible targets of violence, which is why some students slated for the Wall of Honor speed off to the principal’s office to plead that their names not be listed, that they not be singled out” (3). The students knew that if their name stayed on the Wall of Honor and if they accepted the bribery money other students would call them out their names and try to rob them. To avoid having to go through those things the students just went to the principal to get their name off the wall. If you were in that position would you do the same thing? Or would you just let people bully you? In the book it says, “It was just a day or two after last spring’s awards ceremony. A kid came up to him in the hall, a smallish kid in a green army jacket. The kid said something about not liking Cedric’s face and how he saw him get his $100 award check and it made him sick -- and there was a bulge in the army jacket’s pocket” (22). One can just interpret that Cedric was robbed of his money. Cedric probably never wanted to take the $100 award again after that incident. He let others determine what he does instead of taking control and stepping up to them to let them know how he