At the cost of knowing when Alex has a vision of his younger brother’s death, Alex embarks on a race against time and death. Alex’s curse and situation at the Cost Of Knowing is his ability to see the future, Black sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus does his best to avoid visions or ignores what he knows. However, when he realizes his younger sibling Isaiah’s approaching death, he is competing against time, death, and circumstances to be there for him. This novel explores the theme of facing your fears as an important part of life. In the Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris, the first place we see this theme is when Alex found out that Isaiah was going to die soon. Alex suddenly realized how distant I’d let us get after our parents died. Alex faces …show more content…
Zaccari, Ms. Zaccari, Isaiah, and Talia. By this, what I mean is Alex explains how he should explain this to Ms. Zaccari by stating how he’s a suspicious person just by looking at how he looks. That until she spends a day as a black man, I don’t think she’ll ever understand why the cops make me uneasy. Ms. Zaccari then, when she realizes she’s getting nowhere with Alex or Talia, turns to Isaiah. On Page 170 we see this very topic on how Alex views the police and why he is fearful of the police in his neighborhood as a young black man. “But I guess she doesn’t really need to be afraid. For her, the police are the good guys. For me? It’s different everyday, depending on what I’m wearing, where my hands are, and how lucky I am. This section of the book is very important because if Alex had not driven back to his house through the suburbs toward a dozen flashing police cars parked haphazardly down the block without a trace of fear, he wouldn’t have gotten to see Isaiah in time to assure himself that he was safe. Alex, facing his fears of the cops is very important because if you don’t overcome your fears, you will never move from where you