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Stereotypes Faced By Robert Peace

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Robert Peace seemed like the typical stereotype of a poor black kid at the start of the book. He lived in the projects with multiple family members, and his dad wasn’t in his life because he was in jail. The interesting part about Robert is that he was so intelligent and got a full scholarship to Yale University. He manages to get a Yale education for free but ends up selling drugs. While reading about Robert Peace life, I forgot that he was going to die because of how good he was doing in school and knowing that he was going to die made the book more interesting.
Reading Robert Peace’s story knowing how it would end made the book more stimulating. I wanted to know if Robert Peace was trouble from the start or was he going to make something of himself. I was eager to finish the book to see why and how he died. Knowing that a young man’s life was going to end early made me pay attention to the details in the book for any foreshadowing that could give me a hint on how he would die. I wanted to know how a young man with lower income, who is Ivy League educated with a full scholarship, manage to die at a young age. …show more content…

Robert Peace was a smart young man, he would study hard and get ahead in his classes. His freshman year at St. Benedict he joined the swim and water polo team without even knowing how to swim. His senior year he ended up being the captain. Rob had been the group leader the president of all the eighteen color groups of his school. But after all the things Robert had accomplished there were times throughout the book when I remember that he was going to die. When Robert started to drink and smoke with the kids in the neighborhood and when he started to sell drugs in college, I remember that his life was going to

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