In the rest of the book Bebe would spend time writing to her father, whishing that she could spend the summer vacation with him and also asking him advice. After summer vacation Bebe went back to school. It was 5th years in the school. Although she didn’t like it she knew that she had to make mother happy, but every school year the white students would annoy her even more. There was always competition with whites and blacks in how they did in school, competing against each other, and either trying to be as good, or better than them, “What the white children learned, that’s what her child had to learn.”(Campbell.228). Bebe’s mother put many ideas into her head, about why proper English was the right thing to do, “Speaking impeccably proper English was a strategy in the overall battle for civil rights. Bebe, we have got to be prepared.” Bebe’s mother wanted her to change herself and to be something that she was not. she knew that the only person he could talk to was her father. Bebe always had her mother and aunt hovering over her, and making her speak proper English, but to Bebe, she considered it “acting white” and felt that in order to be considered black she had to act like herself.
"You can have all the marching you want. what it gets down to is economics." (Campbell.254)
as Bebe was listening to her mother she was thinking of what her father would say. As she was thinking she realizes how much he misses her father. also her father was the completeely opposite of her mother because her mother would force her to do something but her father would give her the best advice that he could to make her feel better about being an African American girl.
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