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Cashier Chapter Summaries

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This chapter starts off in a 7-11 store during the late hours of the night. Here a problem arises as the character in this chapter goes into this store, the cashier becomes visibly frightened of the customer. This moment in the chapter shows us a glimpse of racial profiling. A dark-skinned man walks in late at night and the white male cashier of the 7-11 establishment is fearful. The fear of the cashier is understandable because when you're working in a store by yourself during the late hours of the night you can start to fear every customer regardless of how they are perceived. The fear of being robbed and possibly held at gunpoint, that is an understandable fear. But this takes place in Seattle, a very different setting off of the Indian

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