Their father’s drunken binges have been the stimulus for the two boys to seek an escape from the brooding atmosphere increasingly pervading their home and Reggie often takes the brunt of dad’s disparagement of his family which, in turn, is the result of a lifetime dealing with racism that even business success can't reverse. Reggie Cooperīenji’s 14-year-old brother who gets a summer job at Burger King while Benji works an ice cream stand gig. DuBois’ concept of the double-consciousness through black Americans must view the world-that the reader looks at his summer spent with friends and his younger brother at a beach house mostly unattended by adult supervision. It through his eyes-informed by the recent acquisition of the knowledge of W.E.B. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.īenji is the 15-year-old African-American student attending a mostly white private school in New York who narrates the novel. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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