FROM PIECES TO WEIGHT ( 72 - 90 )

SUMMARY:
Durring these few pages alot happens whhich is a part of the climax of the entire story . As 50 cent turns sixteen and is continuing to sell drugs and go to school he is also faced with both relationship problems and society issues . He ends up finding his first "girlfriend" and her name is Tracee . They never got to develope a real relationship because all he was really looking for was sex , like most young 16 year olds . As he goes to visit her one night in his nicest clotes , jewlery , and eight ball jacket , he notices that the area isnt safe because of all the guys watching him so he wanted to just do what he came to do and them leave immediately . When he was done and got back downstairs one of the eight guys ansked him so " come here and talk for a sec " , but when he said that they had nothing to talk about and walked outside , they took that as a sign of disrespect and proceeded to follow him . When he got outside and noticed that he was still being followed he got scared and just turned around shooting and jumped into a taxi . After that night he told himself that he would never go to visit her again because his life was more important than some girl that he barely liked . Then thats when he met Tasha who he considered his first real "girlfriend" . That relationship just consisted of money and sex . He never really paid her any mind unless he wanted some and she never really stressed that unless she wanted him to buy her something . One day she wasnted to go on a double date with her best friend and her boyfriend , who he knew very well , but he decided not to go [ which he told his friend brian on the phone on speaker , but didnt know ] because he would rather make money than fall in love . When Tasha heard that she ended up cheating on him and going to the movies with a guy named john who she messed with periodically for a few months after that . Since 50 cent never found out until a few months later he ended up buying her a 500 dollar fur coat and not thinking anything of it , until john told him the entire story out of jelousy . After that he just took everything that he could back because he would rather be single then be cheated on , and decided not to date for a while after that again . Then one day while he was going to school , he was being searched as normal , but this time the school police found drugs in his shoe which caught him by total surprise .He was arrested but then expelled and had to go to court . So when he got home alot of feelings and serious words were shared between he and his grandmother . At first she thought that he was using the drugs , but after he told her that he was the one selling them , she broke down into tears . She began to cry band told him the real story about his mothers death . She told him that his mother was also a drug dealer and that she was murdered , so his grandmother felt like it was all her fault because she wasnt able to provide her kids with things they wanted which lead her children to finding other ways to do so .



QUOTE:
" i always took a liking to social studies , though , maily world history -- war and sh*t like that . War had interested me from the earliest day , since i use to play with those green army men . I really got excited about the strategy and the fights between good and evil , like , We're right and they're wrong , so we have to get rid of them . How could you make that boring ? A lot of teachers did , however . They turned war into a game of numbers , dates , and who signed what piece of paper . I was like , What happened to the part about getting rid of the other guy for the good of the world? School just made everything corny " ( jackson 86 )



REACTION:
As i read this quote i laughed because i felt the same way about that subject and school. As i was reading before that he also explained that he was good at chemistry and conversions because of selling drugs and him having to divide and multiply the substaces himself . So are all things really bad for you ? because if you can learn a helpful or valuable lesson from something looked at as a crime , then is it really a crime , or just something misunderstood ? This in some way connects to what he has already seen or been through because of the " wars " . He has seen alot of dealers killed and been in many fights , and later on in his life would experience many more things like war with the law because of what he does durring the majority of his spare time .