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Castle Cranshaw Ghost

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Can you imagine if you suddenly hear gunshots in your own house? Then, realize that those gunshots was your own father shooting at you. That is what Castle Cranshaw goes through in this book, Ghost by Jason Reynolds. Castle started out alone and was left with the responsibility to deal with his problems, except he did not deal with his problems, he just held them off. But, when he learned that he does not have to deal with all his problems by himself, and that he can get help from his loved ones. He ended up having not one but two families that support him. I believe that life can be better if you do not run away/hold off your problems because it may give you short time relief, but it will come back and catch you when you least expect …show more content…

As you know he had very traumatic experience with his dad and the gun. Castle has a very troubled past and it makes sense that he is running away. But the only problem is, as he runs from his mistakes, it alters his judgement and choices made. To add on, he gets into a fight with brandon at school. Like I said above, (it may give you short time relief, but it will come back and catch you when you least expect it.) In other words, Castle got away with his problem when he called coach. But he didn't realize that he was going to be punished by coach. Another example, is when Castle took the shoes. “I pounded down the street, waiting to hear someone yell, Hey Kid! or Thief! Somebody stop that kid! Like they do on TV.” In other words he knew he made a mistake, but he still made the decision to do it anyway. Later on in the book the coach finds out about the stolen shoes. This just proves my point even more that, (it may give you short time relief, but it will come back and catch you when you least expect it). Castle finally starts facing his problems and he then went to …show more content…

In the text, when he steals the shoes, which is for his own self interest, he gets worried when the shoes are out in front of people because he knows it was the wrong decision. With the help and support of his coach. He goes back to the Athletic store and apologizes. That was the correct decision, and although it was very hard to go and apologize. But he did it and Castle had a clean conscience. Castle learns that the journey will be difficult, but will have a nice turn

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