chapter summary

-Chapter one starts on page 3 to page 12

(Summary)

In this Chapter it talks about how the Thomas family live, four people to a one bedroom apartment. How they are poor, how rats be coming out and Bigger kills it, and starts to play in his sisters face with the dead rat and scares her. Bigger mother stays on him about getting a job to help out with the family.

During this Chapter it basically talks about Bigger and his family how they are like dirt poor and they live in an one bedroom apartment, they have rats, yes rats not mice. That’s how bad they got it. Bigger kills the rat and acts like a big kid playing with the dead rat in front of his sisters face it basically killed her half to death. He’s lazy don’t want to get a job to help out his family. So Mrs. Thomas(Bigger’s) mother basically tell him to get a job all the time to help out with the family but he still doesn’t listen