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Malcolm's Difference In 'Ghetto And' Hills

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The central ideas in pages 42-46 are trying to find out if Malcolm sees the difference in the ‘’ghetto’’ and the ‘’Hills’’. The idea of this is to see if Malcolm can see the difference between rich and poor. ‘’They tied themselves down working somewhere, because they would never again have the time to really see and get to know anything about the city they were living in’’(42). Malcolm couldn’t get over the men in the pool rooms. ‘’The sharp-dressed young ‘’cats’’ who obviously didn’t work anywhere, completely entranced me’’(45). In downtown Boston, they had a theater that was huge and had a ballroom. ‘’On Massachusetts Avenue, next door to one of them, the Loew’s State Theater, was the huge, exciting Roseland State Ballroom’’(44). There’s

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