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A Hope in the Unseen was a national best seller, written by Ron Suskind. In this novel, Suskind helps to portray his message in the likes of a young African-American named Cedric Jennings. Cedric is a young, intellectual boy growing up in a rough high school in Washington, D.C. In Ballou High School, he is considered an outcast because he is one of the select few that puts forth the effort to succeed. He is an honor student, who owes all of his academic success to his mother, and his studying. His erudition got him accepted into a very prestigious program for gifted minority students at MIT, and later, acceptance to Brown University. Cedric went to a high school where everybody was divided into their own “social group,” which is similar to my high school. The following, quoted from page two, is exactly that of my school: “Along the top rows of both sets of bleachers, leaning against the white- painted cinder blocks, are male ‘crews’ from nearby housing projects and neighborhoods in expensive Fila or Hilfiger or Nautica garments and $100-plus shoes, mostly Nikes.
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