Breaking Characters In Black And White

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Imagine being the best basketball player in school, then something goes wrong and ending up shooting someone by accident. Eddie and Marcus are the stars of the basketball team, one cold night something went wrong, and they end up making a big mistake, one of them will have to pay.
The Puritans would obliterate the novel Black and White due to the law breaking characters, not wearing plain colored clothes, and the characters lead sinful lives. The Puritans would ban the novel Black and White because of the law breaking characters. Eddie Russo and Marcus Brown are best friends, Eddie is white, Marcus is black. In their neighborhood, black and white people don’t get along. But Eddie and Marcus got past the “racial crap”. Eddie’s parents has

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