Jaclyn responded that the narrator was a fool because she had already made up her mind anyway. Upon arrival, the narrator saw that Jaclyn was there too, and he admitted paying the psychic to tell Jaclyn that she was making the right decision about the abortion. The fetuses asked him if he felt guilty for the abortion, and then cajoled him into visiting the psychic his girlfriend was fond of seeing.
In “Lark Street,” the unnamed narrator woke to discover specters of the twin fetuses his girlfriend Jaclyn recently aborted sitting by his bed. At the end of the story, Ben abstains from the Good offered by a school nurse. Furthermore, they are kind and considerate, qualities not prized in this society. Ben receives an invitation to a birthday party at a friend's house and discovers that her family lives entirely without Good. When his parents restrict his intake, he suffers symptoms of withdrawal. A boy named Ben finds himself increasingly in need of more Good. The society’s citizens are given a drug called Good to keep them compliant. “The Era” takes place in a future dystopian society that forbids expressing emotions. He went outside and discovered ashes in the grass his mother had built a fire and cooked the meal outside. He remembers one day in particular when the gas and electric had been turned off, but he came home to find chicken and rice in a pot. In “Things My Mother Said,” an unnamed narrator recalls his difficult and impoverished upbringing with a mother who was tough but loving. Though Emmanuel raised his arms to surrender, the police killed him. However, when it came time to kill them, Emmanuel could not do it.
Emmanuel agreed to join, and the group singled out a young couple kissing in their car. Emmanuel ran into an old friend from high school who invited him to join a vigilante group who were killing innocent white people in acts of retributive justice for the murders. In “The Finkelstein 5,” protagonist Emmanuel battles rage and disillusionment after the acquittal of a white man in the murders of five black youths. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.įriday Black is a collection of 12 short stories, many of which are interrelated through common themes, characters, and settings. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame.
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