![]() ![]() ![]() They embark on an on-and-off, long-distance relationship, when Gardner joins the Navy. He also has his first romantic and sexual experiences and falls in love with Sherry Dyson, a woman from Virginia. He is an avid reader, goaded on by his mother’s sentiment that “the most dangerous place in the world is a public library” and vows to be a better man than Freddie or his abandoning father (25).Īs a teenager growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement and the Sexual Revolution, Gardner gains a sense of himself as a young black man coming of age in a transformative historical period. Gardner grows up with a deep fear of uncertainty, but he is also quick, curious and daring. They all grow to loathe Freddie and, in the instances, that Bettye Jean tries to leave him, he finds some means of reporting her to the police, and the children stay with their uncles and aunts or with foster parents until her release. ![]()
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