Journal Entry #7
pgs 173-201

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-When Ruth was nineteen, she worked as a manicurist at Hi Hat Barbershop. The owner, Rocky, began to take her out and treating her to fancy life because he was a pimp.
-Dennis changed Ruth's perception on her situation to continue to hang out with Rocky.
-The family moved down to Delaware from New York because she could not afford to live in New York.
-Ruth's parents were divorced after her Tateh started to have an affair with a women who was not even Jewish.
-Her sister, Dee-Dee, made Ruth promise to stay with her and Mameh because she was oyung and was unable to take care of her mother because she was to young. Ruth ended up making a promis to her sister that she would stay but later she would break this promise.

4 Questions
Though she knew he was a pimp, Why did Ruth continue to allow him to draw her in?
Why didn't the mother cry in front of her children when they went to college?
Did music act as a substitute to replace the pein in James's life?
Why did Ruth breack her promise tlo Dee-Dee?

3 Vocabulary Words
1. Pg 182 Modus Operandi- a distinct pattern or method of operation that indicates or suggests the work of a single criminal in more than one crime
2. Pg 185 Spry- Nimble
3. Pg 188 Epitomized- to serve as the typical or ideal example of

2 Literary Devices
1. "a falling pot will send her to her feet like a soldier at the reveille" Pg 178 This is an example of a simile.
2. "The truth was a bandy-legged sould who dashed from one side of the world to the other" Pg 187 This is an example of personification.

Summary Sentence
The family moved down south, where james first entered college and expeprienced his first job and what it was like to work.