Baby Bobby Symbolism

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nia is having a baby and bobby is going to be a father so when the baby was born they called her feather and now bobby has to take responsibility like taking feather to Jackies apartment for babysitting so he could go to school,change her dip, feed it, and love it nia and bobby was thinking on giving up the baby but near the end they wanted to keep the baby.

So bobby will move and take care of feather.

One of the symbols is a basketball he played basketball in his childhood when he put it down it rolls down to his mom’s room. When bobby was with nia he was some trophies on the shelves represents that you’ve accomplished something and you are a winner.

The other symbol is a stonewall is when he put down his pictures of childhood life on a stone wall and he gotten arrested also.
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Fred and mary is nia’s parents and when bobby told them that he got nia pregnate they both to stone and in the story says the list of things that bobby needs to take care of her when bobby was with feather he talked about nia and how he liked the way she talked,laughed,ate, and how she was pregnate with

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