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Study Guide: A Hope In the Unseen by Ron Suskind - Online Notes

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11. Back Home

Summary

Back home in Washington D.C. for Winter Break, Cedric wakes up one morning to find out area public schools were opening two hours late. He calls up Ballou to find out if Alumni Day was still going to happen, and finds out that is the case. A few days earlier, Bishop Long singled out Cedric and another college freshman during church services for questioning in front of the congregation. Cedric claimed he earned a 4.0 average in his first semester; this is a misleading technicality since he took all classes pass / fail, knew he earned an A in calculus, and was unsure of what he earned in the other courses.

Cedric arrives at Ballou around 10 AM, meeting Ms. Wingfield and also telling her he received a 4.0. Alumni Day is sparsely attended; Cedric............

Notes

Cedric's return to Ballou makes him realize how much the school protected him, which contradicts his fiery sermon at graduation. This is certainly in keeping with the nature of the bildungsroman, where past attitudes are refined and seen in a different light as a result of new experiences. Here, Cedric sees that his anger while at Ballou clouded his judgment in the benefits the school provided, especially as he now has a very different set of challenges before him as a student at Brown.

That said, his argument with LaTisha about Bishop Long's sermon highlights how far he .........




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