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- - - - Regret pg 106 : Some of the boys in the jail had been there manytimes. Many seemed to accept jail as part of their life, as their life, as their inveitable future. But Rameck bristled at the thought." Never again," he told himself. "I'm not going to waste my life this way."
        
        Choice pg 103: "Their anger at the man made no sense, but somehow he represented all the death, all the sorrow they saw on the streets every day, and their pent- up rage exploded all over the man's body.
        pg 103: Afraid to use the knife and afraid not to use it. he jabbed the man in the thigh, hoping inwardly that he had not really injured him
        explanation: Rameck and his friends see a crack addict doing drugs near children. An unwritten law of the streets is to not expose children to drugs. With rage, Rameck and his friends beat the man. Rameck gets carried away with the encouragement and stabs him. Getting him arrested with the chance of jail.
  - - - Fear: Chapter 25: "I went down by a different staircase, and I saw another "F---- you" on the wall. I tried to rub it off with my hand again, but this one was scratched on, with a knife or something. It wouldn't come off. It's hopeless, anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the "F---- you" signs in the world. It's impossible. (25.18)
  - - - Allusion: "...as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar."
  - - - I shall be telling this with a sigh
      - Somewhere ages and ages hence:
      - I took the one less traveled by,
      - And that has made all the difference.
      - Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
  - - - The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
      - But I have promises to keep,
      - And miles to go before I sleep,
      - And miles to go before I sleep.