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What Are The Similarities Between Jones And Newman

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Jones (LeAlan Marvin Jones) is a thirteen-year-old boy, living in the ghetto of Chicago. Newman describes Jones as a boy, whose belly takes up his whole body. Newman (Lloyd Newman) is the friend of Jones. He is fourteen years old. He’s described as short, thin (75 pounds) and with very thin wrists. Jones and Newman have been friends for seven years, since first grade. They both go to school at Donoghue Elementary School in eighth grade. Their school isn’t good and the students are very loud and don’t want to learn anything. Newman lives in a house in the Ida B. Wells Projects. The house is described as a house in a very bad condition. There are roaches, the toilet isn’t functioning and it’s always noisy in the house. He lives there with his

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