Week One, #1

Do your best to predict what will happen to Sonny in this book.

In the novel "The Flowers", written by Dagoberto Gilb, a boy in his early teens named Sonny is the main character. So far I have learned that Sonny is very quiet and likes to keep his thoughts to himself. After moving into an apartment building with a new stepfather and his mother, his views about life and others begin to change. Early on in the book we learn of a situational conflict that includes a man breaking into his house looking for his mother. This type of experience foreshadows a similar event that could take place later on in the book. Sonny's new friends, "the Twins" will also play a role in what kind of events Sonny will partake in. After reading the first 50 pages, I cannot help but think that the eighteen year old married girl named Cindy will create a conflict for Sonny. I think that eventually she will seduce him and somehow Cindy's husband will find out. During that time I think that his relationship with the other girl named Nica will progress into actual feelings. By that time Nica will have found out about Sonny's relations with the other girl named Cindy. It will cause a strain in the way they feel but Nica will come around and help Sonny think of a way to fend himself against Cindy's angry husband.
Another character that I find to be interesting is the albino man named Pinkston. He seems like a business man and likes to make money. I predict that Pinkston will recruit Sonny to help him with some sales. Even though everything would seem to be going smoothly, secretly Pink would rip off some guy and that person would comeback and look for Pinkston and Sonny. It seems likely that when that guy that got ripped off finally finds Pinkston, Pinkston says that it was Sonny that ripped him off. If it was a black guy that got ripped off, it would create racial tension and a complicated conflict for Sonny to resolve.
Another prediction I have for the story is that one of the black guys that were there while Sonny and the twins were eating malts might pick a fight with either Sonny or one of the twins. In the event that one of the twins gets beat up, I think Sonny will step up and fight for the only friends he has. Sonny might discover that he is actually a good fighter when he nearly kills one of those guys blinded by rage. Months might go by before the gang of that guys friends retaliate. During this retaliation, someone that Sonny has grown very close with might die or hang on the verge of death while Sonny learns more about himself and decides what to do. He will probably do the right thing and stop the violence but for the books sake and also my own attention span I hope that he doesn't.