The Street (Ch. 7-13) -Kate Ferraro

Chapters 7-10 were especially sad to me. Lutie knows that money is the only thing that can get her and Bub out of the street. She now sees how money changed suicide into an accident with a gun, and it could apparently keep Boots out of the army (166). She even mentions that if they weren't so poor, Jim and her might still be married (183). She knows she has to "keep fighting" to get away from there, because the street would do something terrible to Bub, and something equally terrible to her (194). One of the scariest scenes is when Lutie walks in and the Super dragged her towards the cellar door. This scene was horrible. Besides the shocking scene with Jones,  it was especially sad watching Lutie lose hope. I felt so bad for Lutie when Boots told her the singing was "just for experience, and it would be months before she could earn money" (304). She felt like Junto just "thrust her back into this place" (314), expressing theres always a "white man blocking the way" (315). It made it even worse when Mr. Crosse said "he can practically guarantee a job making $75 dollars a week, but then mentions the $125 training fee" (320). It was sickening when he offered to basically sleep with her, and then it would be free. When she goes back and thinks of her hatred towards Mr. Crosse, she is reminded of her experience with Boots and Junto preventing her from getting a job, and even the Chandlers view of her as a "nigger wench" (323). At this point she is just "mad at herself."