Black and White

In Black and White by Paul Voliponi, Eddie Russo and Marcus Brown are best friends. They wanted to go on their senior trip, but they haven’t had the money for it. They had recently bought a pair of Nike shoes for their basketball season and the shoes cost over 100 dollars. Marcus and Eddie had an idea to make some quick cash. He wanted to rob people by doing stick-ups. Eddie’s grandpa, who had passed away, had a gun and it was in Eddie’s attic. Eddie took his grandpa’s gun to do stick-ups. Marcus and Eddie were skeptical, but they needed their money. As they do stick-ups to random people, it seemed to work but when Eddie accidently shot a man, they were in deep trouble. The police had found suspects and Marcus was one of them. The man had spotted him and Marcus was interrogated by the cops. The cops told Marcus that he was going to be sentenced to jail, but if he told them who else were involved he would get less time. Marcus, being a loyal friend, did not tell the police that Eddie was involved. Marcus had got kicked out of his basketball team once the media had found out about the incident. Marcus had lost everything, but Eddie was flying under the radar. Eddie had got a scholarship for basketball, while Marcus was still dealing with the police of who was involved with him on the case. As the story goes on, Eddie gets caught, but he is bailed out of jail. Marcus had never mentioned anything about Eddie and Marcus faces the consequences as he is about to go to jail.

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