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Through sharp dialogue about artistic value, protest, and cultural reference points, the narrative exposes how teenagers build identities and opinions amid limited knowledge. The chapter then widens into home life tensions, including family disagreements and looming travel plans, capturing everyday conflict and moral judgment in crisp, observational prose.","EARLY BIRD BOOKS  \nFRESH EBOOK DEALS, DELIVERED DAILY  \nBE THE FIRST TO KNOW—  \nNEW DEALS HATCH EVERY DAY!  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCRIMINAL CONVERSATION  \nEd McBain writing as Evan Hunter  \nMYSTERIOUSPRESS.COM  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis is for my daughter, AMANDA FINLEY  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlthough several real places, organizations, institutions, and agencies are mentioned by name in these pages, all of the characters and events portrayed are fictitious.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n—And so the conversation slips  \nAmong velleities and carefully caught regrets Through attenuated tones of violins Mingled with remote cornets  \nAnd begins.  \nT. S. Eliot Portrait of a Lady  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \n1 : DECEMBER 21–DECEMBER 30  \nLuretta Barnes was the smartest girl Sarah taught. Rap as poetry, poetry as rap was a good concept. Luretta disagreed with it.  \n“Ice-T ain’t Allen Ginsberg,” she told Sarah. “No way you gonna compare Soul on Ice to Howl. No way, Mrs. Welles.”  \nA scholarship student, Luretta was the only black girl in the entire sophomore class. The only one now taking a stand against rap as poetry.“You want to call it doggerel,” she said, “that’s fine by me. But poetry? Come on, Mrs. Welles. Callin’ rap poetry is like callin’ Michael Jackson Pavarotti.”  \nThe other girls all laughed.  \nLuretta soaked it up.  \nGorgeous fourteen-year-old with a smile like starshine, hair done up in ten thousand braids, little colored glass beads strung in them, could have been a model in an instant, wanted to be a lawyer. She’d somehow learned from one of the other girls that Mrs. Welles’s husband was a lawyer in the DA’s Office. One day, she stopped Sarah in the halls, asked if her husband could use a good assistant. Sharpen pencils, empty trash baskets, whatever, it’d beat her after-school job at McDonald’s. Sarah said she was pretty sure all such jobs were civil service, which meant taking an exam and so on. She said she’d ask her husband, though. Michael had confirmed it.“He’s missin’ out on a future star,” Luretta had said, grinning her celestial smile.  \nSarah was now qualifying the comparison, hedging the lesson so that rap could be considered protest poetry, or perhaps poetic commentary, in much the same way that Lennon’s or McCartney’s lyrics for the Beatles could rightfully be considered such.  \n“‘Eleanor Rigby,’ for example,” she said, “is really a poem of protest, wouldn’t you say? An elegy for the lonely? A cry for pity? And it’s social commentary as well, isn’t it? Eleanor keeping her face in a jar by the door? Father MacKenzie giving his sermon and no one showing up for it?”  \nMost of these fifteen-year-olds knew “Eleanor Rigby,” but just barely. To  \nmany of them, the Beatles might have been a quartet of strolling Elizabethan minstrels. McCartney was in his fifties, after all, an old man in the eyes of these precocious adolescents. Sarah plunged ahead regardless. She’d have brought in some of her own tapes if she’d known she’d betaking this tack—which, by the way, wasn’t a bad one. Instead, she waswinging it now only because Luretta had taken her unexpected position.“Or what’s ‘I Am the Walrus,’” she said, gathering steam,“if not a protest against England’s tax laws? All the graphic references to death and dying? You’ve all heard the expression ‘Nothing’s sure but death and taxes,’haven’t you?”  \nNo one had heard the expression. Smartest kids in the city of New York here at Greer, none of them had ever heard about death and taxes or, for that matter,“I Am the Walrus.”  \nExcept Luretta.  \n“Lennon was a poet,” she said.“You’re comparing pigs and pork chops, they’re not the same at all.”  \n“Excuse me, but who’s Lennon?” one of the girls asked.  \n“Spare me,” Luretta said, and rolled her lovely brown eyes.  \n“John Lennon,” Sarah said.  \n“Wasn’t he the man some nut shot outside the Dakota?” another girl asked.  \nGood lesson to teach sometime, Sarah thought. 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