Black+and+White

"Kids who are different colors don't get to be all that tight in my neighborhood. But we get past all that racial crap," says Marcus, an African American senior whose best friend, Eddie, is white. Together, the boys are known at school as Black and White. Both are basketball stars entertaining scholarship offers from local New York City colleges, but they risk everything for more spending money. Considering fast-food jobs too demeaning, they turn to armed stickups, and during their third robbery, they shoot and wound their victim. In alternating chapters, Marcus and Eddie recount the terrifying days after the event as they wait for the police to find and arrest them. The disparate treatment each receives highlights their racial divide, which is occasionally echoed on the streets in harsh language full of hate: a man on the subway tells a white girl that "niggers are going to fuck you, too." Using authentic voices that will draw in both strong and reluctant readers, Volponi writes a taut novel that avoids didacticism and deftly balances drama and passion on the basketball court with each boy's private terror and anguish. Teens will want to discuss the story's layered moral ambiguities, heartbreaking choices, and, as Marcus says, "the line that separates black and white." From [|Booklist]
 * Black and White **

Questions:

Why are Marcus and Eddie called "Black and White" by everybody? Answer:Eddie is white and Marcus is African american. They overcame the racial status when they were little and became best friends who love basketball.

Why are Eddie and Marcus the star players on their team? Answer: They are used to each others moves and styles. When they play together they are instantly focused on the game and each others moves. When they play together it's like they are dancing. They are insync with each other.

Why do Eddie and Marcus decide to hold stick-ups?Where did they get the gun? Answer: They decide to hold stick-ups because they are both poor and they want to have what the other guys on the team have. When the team gets new sneakers, they want to get them and be apart of them. They want to go on class trips along with their team mates. They got the gun because Eddies grandfather had a gun. When his grandfather passed away, Eddie's father put the gun up in the attic and away.

What happened on their last stick-up? Answer: Eddie and Marus both followed their victim into his car to get his money. There was a strugle betweeb Eddie and the victim, and the gun went off. Clipping the victim.

How did the cops find out that Marcus was apart of the stick-up? Answer: The victim of their last stick-up was a bus driver that drove the bus that Marcus went on before. The victim lived and told the police that Marcus and his partner pulled a stick-up on him. The victim only recognized Marcus and not Eddie.