Sweet Summer (51-129)

In the few chapters in Sweet summer Bebe move to another city to have a better education. Her mother and her grandmother wanted her and her cousin name Michael to go to a white school to receive a better education that she had from a previous school. Although the school was mixed Bebe’s grandmother wanted her to be in her very best behavior. The grandmother knew what the white people expected of the black people. After the first two days of school Bebe was proud of herself for not disappoint her mother and her grandmother. A few days later while she was in class the teacher asked the class to make a sentence with the word birthday and everyone in the class had there hands up except Bebe. One of her classmate name Sandra made a sentence that involved her father and Bebe flipped out. However Bebe made a comment about wanting to stab Sandra with a knife. When Mrs. Bradley find out Bebe was sent to the principal’s office. Although they called her parents she didn’t know what was going to happen to her when she gets home. Although she didn’t get beaten she still got yelled out by her grandmother and her mother and from her opinion it was worse than a beaten.

"my made me a beautiful dollhouse for my birthday" (Campbell 66)
i think Bebe got mad because Sandra was talking about what her father gave her and i think Bbe flipped out because she didn't have a father anymore she was still dealling with his death.