Black family

McGill displays the black family dynamic and shows the honest family that he has and how if reflects across most of black America. Black Americans don't have closely knit Families and many suffer and lack a father figure. Jerome's mother had Jerome when she was 17 and this wasn't the greatest foundation for success and this prevented Jerome to live in an ideal environment where he wouldn't suffer from the strife of life in a bad environment. McGill struggled but after his injury he was able to bring him self up and be resilient McGill as able to write this book to help blacks not life in his situation and hopefully people won't have this poor family dynamic McGill writes to prevent the family dynamic