Thursday, May 8, 2008

Self-Made Man: The friendship Ned Gains

Ned had successfully integrated 'himself' into the men's night bowling club. She got to see the other sides of mens life's with the friendships they share with each-other. One example is Jim, who cracks jokes all the time and keeps their whole team involved. Ned feels connected and involved with the group and does not fill shunned in anyway at all. Jim lives in a trailer park and jokes about how it is the 'galvanized ghettos' with all these wiggers walking around. Ned realizes that even when Jim jokes about stuff that involves sland with race, he was not racist in anyway. She realizes that all the guys took people at face level. There's a quote on pg. 31 Jim confronted a black person who asked for money. And the black guy thought Jim was afraid cause he was black, but was afraid because the guy had just come out of the woods.
Ned sees that he has become involved with friends who respect him, share jokes with him, and are nice well rounded people living hard working lives.

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