#5

Daniel Cuevas-

What she does not tell him is that they are bankrupt. That over the last year she has been forging his name and selling and mortgaging the properties they own. She does this to cover the loss of some poor investments she made without our fathers knowledge. This includes the mortgaging of our own house, though it does nothing to explain why she would burn down an apartment complex they do not own. Those are two things that none of us, except maybe our mother, will ever understand. (Brown, 28)

These quotes further tell us Browns story, his experiences, his parents, his troubles. In this chapter, he starts it sort of cheerfully, he explores San Francisco with his mother, but what he didn't tell us until later in the book was why his mother took him to explore San Francisco. Turns out, that his father and mother got into an altercation with each other; his mother decided to distance herself from Browns father. In addition, I am puzzled on why Browns mother would set fire to an apartment complex that ended with the life of an elderly woman. We the readers will probably never find out ourselves because Brown states that "none of us, except maybe our mother, will ever understand." Maybe it was because she had something against someone living in those apartments. It is sad that Brown had to experience these series of unfortunate events that he had no control of whatsoever. His parents were bad parents for not being able to provide for a healthy uprising for their child. I predict that after these events, Browns life will start to spiral downwards. Well actually, it has already been confirmed that it does, because in chapter one, Brown is 9 years old when he starts drinking and in this chapter, chapter 2, he is 6 years old.