The story The Sky is Gray was a very interesting and somewhat sad story for me to read. I was very interseted in James and his plight as a young colored boy in the south. I was very impressed with the courage and fortitude in young James. He tried his best to act like an example for his younger siblings. He thought that he was the role model and he acted like it. James never …showed first 75 words of 186 total…

…showed last 75 words of 186 total…dentist remove a tooth. Nevertheless, James’ mother found a way and off they went. The mother seemed to be a very proud and hard-working person, as she would not accept any hand-outs or help of any sort. I wasn’t exactly sure of the significance of the book-reading character in the dentist office. He was an educated person, and so I thouhgt he would have enough wealth to go the other better dentist in town.