Slam Final Post 230-309

Summary
Sam mother comes rushing to him to tell him that Alicia is in labor. Sam keeps getting nightmares that Alicia is in labor and that he is the only one in the cab with her and he does not know what to do. In labor Sam describes Alicia as “an animal, her breast were five times the regular size, she sounded like a terrible animal. It felt like she was thirty and he was seven” (Hornsby 232). Alicia began to say terrible stuff to him and he was getting frustrated and Andrea told Sam not to be angry because woman act selfish and mean when they are in labor. Sam also learns that since he is having the baby, he would have to learn not to be easily offended.
The baby was called Rufus because the song playing at the time of birth was composed by a singer named Rufus Wainwright. The baby according to the book looks like Alicia. Sam describes Alicia saying that she looked other than his mother. Annie and Andrea argue what the last mane of the baby should be; “Burns” of “Jones”. Andrea made a comment that Annie found offensive. She said that it would be better that the kids live with Alicia so that he would not end up making the same mistake that his great-grandfather, his grandmother and father did which is getting pregnant at an early age. (Genealogy). Alicia made the final decision that the name of the baby was Rufus Jones. Sam begins to live with the Burns in Alicia’s room.
While in college, he encounter an ignorance boy named Jason Garson who told Sam “anyway thanks for looking after my kid, saved me a few quid.” (Hornsby 257). Sam acts like a child and does the same thing that scout did which was kicking him in his genitalia and running away. He assumed that Jason was the father the father of the baby.
Sam’s father comes around to spend time with Sam and Rufus, that same week, Sam and Alicia had a fight because she wanted to see other people and she threaten him by saying “You can forget all about seeing Roof” (Hornsby 287).
In the end, Sam and Alicia finally had sex again and Andrea walked in on them and was very angry. She was upset that they were still acting sexual instead of trying to plan their future. Sam goes back and forth to college; he also gets to spend some time with Roof. Both teenagers began to see other people. Sam was seeing a girl named Alex and Alicia was seeing a boy named Carl.

Quote
“It was all about the families, wasn’t it? That Rufus Jones was going to leave school at sixteen to be a dad and get a rubbish job and get no GCSEs and probably start taking crack. But Rufus Burns would, I don’t know, go to a university and become a doctor or a prime minster or whatever” (Hornsby 247).

Reaction
I don’t think that the quote is really racist because she was right; the family keeps on making mistake that involves them sacrificing their life pleasure because they were being irresponsible. This is a thematic element that involves genealogy because 3 generation of the family so far had made the same mistake. This book teaches the struggle that young teens have to go through and why is it a bad choice to have a baby at an early age. It has a moral learning and it was a pleasure reading.