In society everyone want to feel like they have a spot that they belong in. People can achieve this feeling by staying with the people that they know the best. People often don't change because they feel more accepted by the people they are surrounded by and have gotten to know, especially if they have things that are obviously in common.
In the first part of the book when the first few practices were starting of for the fugees, Luma noticed something that didn't surprize her but instead something that made sense to her. “Luma saw that when she would tell the boys to divide into groups for drills, they would instinctively divide themselves according to their ethnic backgrounds or common languages.” When the author uses the word instinctively he implies that they didn't even need to think about what to do and how to do it. They did this because they easily connected with people of common culture which they obviously had in common. They
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Luma, being the type of person that wants the best for everybody organizes some costumes for her player and takes them trick or treating. “Children in elaborate costumes roamed the streets by the hundreds while parents socialized in packs in the front yard.” When the author writes pack I think he means more than just a group. A pack is a group that lives and does basically everything together. Thies grown people are also afraid to leave their comfort zones so they stay in these packs were they can be safe and accepted. Warren St. John is trying to tell us that no matter what age you are you can still have doubts about change. That is exactly what happens every year on october 31. All the kids go have fun in their own “packs” while the parents so the same thing now even noticing there flaws and what else they could be experiencing outside their group of