FROM PIECES TO WEIGHT (90 - 156 )

SUMMARY:
Durring these chapters mr.jackson is placed into a rock and a hardplace as he tries to decide either to quit selling drugs to begin his rap career , or continue . In the beggining he was in jail and in a program that was suspose to make him a better person . Each time he fulfilled an activity of the program or simply particepated he had to report back to his probational officer . If what he reported back to her was believable then that would give him less time since he was so young . He had a problem though , she didnt belive that anything he said was forreal and that everything that he said was only so he could get by and get out , which to him was obvious but also made his extremely angry . He eventually gets out , and when he gets older becomes addicted to gambeling . With that , he keeps winning alot of money , so he decides to begin his rap career and develope his own studio . When he was in jail though he made some friends and some enemies . So he wanted his new friends to join him , and the enemies that he had wanted to kill him . So as he begins to become a famous producer in New York and becomes noticed by many famous people , his enemies start to look for him to kill him . That has him wondering if he should just simply quite selling drugs and make his money in a more legal way , or if he should do the opposite .


QUOTE:
" you got to get rich , or die tryin' "( jackson 155 )


REACTION:
When i read this quote after reading the narrative part before it , i paussed in my reading and began to think . He only wanted to become rich because thats what his mother stried to be before she died . She wanted to become rich but was doing it the negative way . So he just followed in her steps , but found another way to make sure that he would get rich . He says that he will die trying because she also did , but people also wanted to kill him . So his mom tried to get rich but died trying , but he wanted to try to get rich without dying .