Chapters 6 and 7 Summary

In Chapter Six, Sam doesn't know when Stick returns that night but he wakes as Stick is preparing to leave the house the next morning and most mornings after that. Spring arrives and Sam and Maxie are walking home one day, reveling in the warmer weather. Suddenly there's a crowd of people pouring into the streets. Sam asks someone passing by what's happened and the man says Dr. King has been shot. Sam doesn't want to believe it but soon hears it on a car radio as well. Sam thinks about Dr. King and all the things he's done over the years of Sam's life. He remembers King walking in a demonstration nearby and eating chicken pot pie at Sam's house. Sam is suddenly angry and he watches as others express their anger by knocking out windows and setting fires. Sam...