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Character Analysis: Rick Cabot

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Paragraph 2: The characters assumptions are realistic because people have very absurd beliefs in reality. Jean Cabot clutched to her husband Rick Cabot and immediately tried to go to the car and cross the street just because she saw two black men walking in a predominantly white area and was under the assumption that they were going to steal her car. Granted they did steal her car but it seems like after the incident her prejudice progressively gets worst. After she expressed her prejudicial views when she made a statement about the Hispanic locksmith stealing her keys and when he turned in her keys she looked as if she was ashamed of what she said. Rick Cabot is just like a real politician he gets robbed by black people and feels the need

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