TAVARES

this was the first student that he visits in the book. He is a young African American male that he taught 8th. He was always the most out spoken kid in his class. The kid that was always the worst and always wanted to cause problems with the teacher or lead everyone off topic. When he spoke to him years later, he regretted a lot of his life because of a lot of it was just doing bad things like selling drugs and being bad. Tavares is a good kid in a bad situation. He said he knew what he was doing and that you not always bad because you want to, sometimes you have to be a criminal cuz you have to. I understand that.