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2505 Redefining America%u00a9 Nathan FoxThis illustration by Nathan Fox accompanied %u201cFriday Black%u201d when it was first published in Esquiremagazine. While it is not a literal illustration of the story%u2019s action or characters, it does re-create the chaos.What visual elements enable us to see and feel the chaos of the events that take place in %u201cFriday Black%u201d? How do those elements echo the language choices Adjei-Brenyah makes?me most on Christmas. I have him holidays. Me and him. Wants the one thing. Only thing. His mother won%u2019t. On me. Need to feel like Father!Ever since that first time, since the bite, I can speak Black Friday. Or I can understand it, at least. Not fluently, but well enough. I have some of them in me. I hear the people, the sizes, the model, the make, and the reason. Even if all they%u2019re doing is foaming at the mouth. I use my reach and pull a medium-size blue SleekPack PoleFace%u2122 from a face-out rack way up on the wall. %u201cThanks,%u201d he growls when I throw the jacket in his face.and tries to sweep her onto the pallet jack so he can roll her to the section we%u2019ve designated for bodies. As he touches her, a woman wearing a gray scarf pushes him away and yanks the girl to her feet. I imagine the mother explaining that her tiny daughter isn%u2019t dead yet. She pulls the little girl toward me. The girl limps and tries to keep up, and then I have to forget about them.%u201cBlue! Son! SleekPack!%u201d a man with wild eyes and a bubble vest screams as he grabs my left ankle. White foam drips from his mouth. I use my right foot to stomp his hand, and I feel his fingers crush beneath my boots. He howls, %u201cSleekPack. Son!%u201d while licking his injured hand. I look him in his eyes, deep red around his lids, redder at the corners. I understand him perfectly. What he%u2019s saying is this: My son. Loves By paragraph 12, what do you know about the narrator%u2019s personality and motivations? How did being bitten by a Black Friday shopper change him?22Copyright %u00a9 Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers. For review purposes only. Not for redistribution.