By: Paul Volponi
The Affects of Crime on Your Life
The Main characters of Black and White are Marcus Brown, a black teen, and Eddie Russo, a white teen, who are best friends. Both Eddie and Marcus are very athletic, they both play for their school’s basketball team and football team. Eddie is more selfish as he shows when he hides from the law instead of taking half the blame for the robberies. Marcus is responsible; he shows this by taking charge of his life and taking his punishment for his crimes. Both Eddie and Marcus are extremely loyal to their friends, even though they go through different experiences and hardships they both seem to want to remain friends at the end of the book.
The beginning of the book explains the center of the conflict, the rest of the book revolves around the consequences of the robbery. Halfway through the book Marcus is busted for the robbery he committed with Eddie. Eddie got away because the victim could not remember his face. The end of the book is explaining that Marcus went to jail, and Eddie did not. Eddie and Marcus have a tense relationship but at the very end it shows that the two basketball players want to remain friends.
Marcus knows what it feels like to take the full blame for something he could give to someone else. Eddie learns what it is like to have your life in the hands of another person. Both experience the life changing effects of the crime they committed.
Eddie is changed by the generosity of Marcus whom takes the blame for the crime. Marcus is changed by the selfishness of Eddie whom does not reveal himself as part of the crime. Marcus is changed by the crime because he will not get into a good college easily and may not have a good rest of his life.
The author, Paul Volponi, creates a real-life situation where greed causes teenagers to break the law to get what they want. He then follows up with experiences of guilt and trust for Eddie while Marcus, who could reveal Eddie’s part in the robbery to get lenience, is being tried for the crime.
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