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…showed last 75 words of 767 total…in front of the white community, the boy transforms into a scared little boy, much different from his demeanor at graduation. As he speaks, it is as if his grandfather enters into his own body and strangles him with the boy's own blood-a warning not to speak submissively. The boy, however, lets both his grandfather and himself down by losing sight of his own purpose-to rebel silently, for the boy does not rebel at all.