How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
When you were first born, I would lie up in bed thinking about scenes of your life. You playing football. You going off to college. I used to think of you going to Morehouse and doing the same things I did when I was there. I never made the football team, but I thought—I dreamed you would. (8.82)
This sounds like any good dad's dream for his son—following in his footsteps and then surpassing them. Who doesn't want that? Steve's dad seems so sad to see his dreams dashed for his son.
Quote #5
MS: STEVE and MR. HARMON. An incredibly difficult moment passes between them. STEVE searches his father's face, looking for the reassurance he has always seen there. (8.83)
Steve's dad has always provided a rock for Steve to lean on. He's a dad—that's his job, right? But now everything is shifting. Sure, in Steve's case this is because of his arrest and subsequent trial, but learning to move forward without your parents reassuring you is also part of growing up for everyone.
Quote #6
What was going on between us, me being his son and him being my dad, is pushed down and something else is moving up in its place. It's like a man looking down to see his son and seeing a monster instead. (9.1)
Is this really happening, or is it merely Steve's version of the truth? It seems possible that Steve is projecting his own insecurities onto his dad.