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Stevie Munson
Marcus is a hulking bully at Brookshire Boys Academy. His favorite target is Stevie; Marcus draws penises and writes profanities on Stevie’s shirts, and he also physically bullies Stevie in other ways. While Stevie sees Marcus purely as a mean antagonist, Pia knows there’s a reason that Marcus bullies others: his dad is physically abusive to Marcus’s mom, and Pia’s mom even suggests that Marcus’s dad might kill his mom. However, the fact that Pia knows this and has been kind to Marcus in the past doesn’t help or change anything when Marcus decides to target her one day after school. Marcus pushes Pia down and causes her skateboard to roll into the street, where a car breaks it in half.
Marcus Bradford Quotes in Look Both Ways
The Look Both Ways quotes below are all either spoken by Marcus Bradford or refer to Marcus Bradford. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“Not that I’m not glad you’re washing your own clothes, but detergent and bleach ain’t free,” she’d say. And what Stevie couldn’t say was, I’m sorry, but there’s a boy in my school drawing on my clothes, because then his mother would say, I don’t send you to private school for boys to draw private parts on your private uniform that you still have to grow into, and Do I need to call the principal? and Stevie didn’t want to hear none of that. Stitches, remember? Maybe even ditches. Besides, Mr. Brock, the principal, already knew. He’d seen the pictures and words and all he ever said was, Boys will be boys.
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Pia felt that same itch when she saw Marcus and the boys yesterday. When she saw the knots at their throats and felt a knot in hers. Because she knew Marcus. She knew where his mother’s black eyes were coming from. Where her swollen jaws and forehead lumps were coming from. Because that same day Pia sat under the dryer two years back, after her wash and before the French roll was put in, she heard her mom ask Marcus’s mom when she was going to leave Marcus’s father.
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Marcus Bradford Quotes in Look Both Ways
The Look Both Ways quotes below are all either spoken by Marcus Bradford or refer to Marcus Bradford. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
3. Skitter Hitter
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“Not that I’m not glad you’re washing your own clothes, but detergent and bleach ain’t free,” she’d say. And what Stevie couldn’t say was, I’m sorry, but there’s a boy in my school drawing on my clothes, because then his mother would say, I don’t send you to private school for boys to draw private parts on your private uniform that you still have to grow into, and Do I need to call the principal? and Stevie didn’t want to hear none of that. Stitches, remember? Maybe even ditches. Besides, Mr. Brock, the principal, already knew. He’d seen the pictures and words and all he ever said was, Boys will be boys.
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Pia felt that same itch when she saw Marcus and the boys yesterday. When she saw the knots at their throats and felt a knot in hers. Because she knew Marcus. She knew where his mother’s black eyes were coming from. Where her swollen jaws and forehead lumps were coming from. Because that same day Pia sat under the dryer two years back, after her wash and before the French roll was put in, she heard her mom ask Marcus’s mom when she was going to leave Marcus’s father.
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