Paul Volponis Black and White - 3582 Words

A brief plot summary. Give an account of the storyline. Not too many words, please! Marcus Brown and Eddie Russo are best friends and stars of the basketball team at Long Island City High School. Marcus is black and Eddie is white, and everyone call them Black and White. They’ve found strength to break through the racial barrier, or at least they believe so themselves. They are inseparable, always having each other’s backs, both on and off the basketball court. With the ability to get whatever scholarship they want, their future is looking good. Their plan is to get sports scholarship to a prestigious university and go on to play professional basketball. When the boys turn to crime, their friendship is put on the line along with the†¦show more content†¦Marcus isn’t hard to convince. They perform several successful stickups at a parking lot. Eddie holds the gun and threatens their victims, while Marcus is on the lookout. They already have enough money to pay their dues, but neither of them wants to quit. It is such an easy way to earn money, and they are tired of feeling like charity cases. Their next stickup doesn’t go according to the plan. It is Marcus’s turn to hold the gun and take care of the threatening, but he doesn’t want to because of his lack of practice. Marcus and Eddie are at their usual spot in the parking lot, and target a man coming out of a store. They don’t notice that the man is black before Eddie starts to threaten him. Before he knows it, he has shot him and the boys are running for their lives. Marcus is arrested during a game a couple of days after the incident, and he gets a publicly appointed defender. The man Eddie shot is alive. His name is Sydney Parker and he works as a bus driver on the route that runs past Marcus’s house. Parker had recognized Marcus when he looked away from Eddie pointing the gun at him. The police had given him a copy of the school yearbook, and he had picked out Marcus’s picture with ease. The police don’t have anything on Eddie, but they do know that Marcus had a partner that held the gun and shot Sydney. They keep interrogating Marcus, and try to convince him to give up his partner in exchange for a lighter sentence. Marcus refuses