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Throughout the story, the gun that was used during the stickups was sort'of refered to as Marcus and Eddie's guilt.
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Marcus and Eddie robbed a woman in the parking lot of P.C. Richards. '"It's like if somebody did that to your mother," Eddie said. "How would you feel?"' (pg.9)
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Marcus and Eddie rob an old white man two weeks later. Eddie unintentionally shot the man. '"It just went off,"I said to him in a low voice.' (Eddie- pg.17)
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Marus remembers that the man Eddie shot was a bus driver. '...I knew the man we shot was a driver on the 19-A that ran past my house.' (pg.24)
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Marcus is identified my teh bus driver that got shot and is arrested. He gets indicted and will be sent to an upstate prison in 3 weeks.
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Eddie and his basket ball team are out of teh champioships the first game they play.
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Eddie throws the gun off a bridge that he knew no one would come and in doing that he got rid of most of the evidence that could be used against him.
Level 3 Question- Do you think Eddie would seel out Marcus to get a better deal? -
Eddie is arrested, but because the detectives investigating his case can't locate the murder weapon, Eddie doesn't go to prison.
Level 2 Question- Why didn't the detectives arrest Eddie at first? -
Marcus and Eddie play one on one before Marcus is sent to jail.
