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Jack Brooks is Ron and John’s grandfather and the owner of a Texas cotton farm, where Ron and John spend their childhood summers picking cotton. Jack Brooks is described as a hardworking honorable man who pays a fair wage to his workers, regardless of whether they are black or white, and even makes no-interest loans to poor black families to get them through hard winters. Because of this, Jack Brooks is widely respected in the black community of his town. Even so, as a white man and a farmer, Jack Brooks participates in and complies with the racial segregation and discrimination pervasive in the American South. As a character, Jack Brooks represents the closest corollary Ron has to the Man, even though he is not a sharecropper. Through Ron’s pain at realizing that his beloved Granddaddy is not so different from the Man who oppressed Denver, the narrative complicates the symbol of the Man, depicting him as a dynamic human being, as complex as any, possessing both noble and ignoble qualities.
Granddaddy / Jack Brooks Quotes in Same Kind of Different as Me
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Chapter 4
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As far as I knew, their first names were “Nigger” and their last names were like our first names: Bill, Charlie, Jim, and so forth […] none of them were ever called by a proper first and last name like mine, Ronnie Ray Hall, or my granddaddy’s, Jack Brooks.
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Chapter 24
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It was at Starbucks that I learned about twentieth-century slavery. Not the slavery of auction blocks, of young blacks led away in ropes and chains. Instead, it was a slavery of debt-bondage, poverty, ignorance, and exploitation. A slavery in which the Man, of whom Denver’s “Man” was only one among many, held all the cards and dealt them mostly from the bottom of the deck, the way his daddy had taught him, and his granddaddy before that.
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Granddaddy / Jack Brooks Quotes in Same Kind of Different as Me
The Same Kind of Different as Me quotes below are all either spoken by Granddaddy / Jack Brooks or refer to Granddaddy / Jack Brooks. 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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Chapter 4
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As far as I knew, their first names were “Nigger” and their last names were like our first names: Bill, Charlie, Jim, and so forth […] none of them were ever called by a proper first and last name like mine, Ronnie Ray Hall, or my granddaddy’s, Jack Brooks.
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Chapter 24
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It was at Starbucks that I learned about twentieth-century slavery. Not the slavery of auction blocks, of young blacks led away in ropes and chains. Instead, it was a slavery of debt-bondage, poverty, ignorance, and exploitation. A slavery in which the Man, of whom Denver’s “Man” was only one among many, held all the cards and dealt them mostly from the bottom of the deck, the way his daddy had taught him, and his granddaddy before that.
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