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Bam-Bam is a teenager born in the Eight Lanes. When he was a child, Funnyboy and his gang orally raped Bam-Bam’s father before killing both of Bam-Bam’s parents in front of him. After this point, he was taken in by Josey Wales and Papa-Lo. He shoots a gun for the first time at the age of ten. Already at this young age he is deeply cynical, convinced that he will never have a chance to get out of the ghetto and that life is worthless. During the attack on the Singer’s house, Bam-Bam shoots the Singer’s wife, Rita. He flees and sleeps in a park, where he accidentally witnesses the Smile Jamaica concert, an event he finds terrifying. Immediately after, he is buried alive by Josey, Weeper, and Tony Pavarotti.
Bam-Bam Quotes in A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Part 1, Chapter 5
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Gun weight is a different kind of weight. Or maybe it be something else, a feeling that whenever you hold a gun is really the gun holding you.
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Part 1, Chapter 11
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I didn't want to fuck him, none of that nasty batty boy business, I just wanted to go inside him like a duppy and move when he move and buck when he buck and wind when he wind and feel myself pull out little by little by little and ram back in hard then soft, fast then slow. Then I wanted to be the woman. I just need to fucking breathe.
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Bam-Bam Quotes in A Brief History of Seven Killings
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Part 1, Chapter 5
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Gun weight is a different kind of weight. Or maybe it be something else, a feeling that whenever you hold a gun is really the gun holding you.
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Part 1, Chapter 11
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I didn't want to fuck him, none of that nasty batty boy business, I just wanted to go inside him like a duppy and move when he move and buck when he buck and wind when he wind and feel myself pull out little by little by little and ram back in hard then soft, fast then slow. Then I wanted to be the woman. I just need to fucking breathe.
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