Cedric's A Hope In The Unseen

The theme of A Hope in the Unseen is, “being a high school student isn’t easy.” There are many different things that get in students’ way during high school. Violence is a big issue in school. If students are constantly surrounded by violence and yelling, how are they supposed to get good grades? Students are always thriving for acceptance from everybody and anybody? They will do what ever they can to be accepted, even if it hurts other students. In high school it is not easy keeping up your grades. It’s a really big struggle when they’re having a hard time in class and they’re worried about getting into college. One big thing in high school is dating, students feel better about themselves when they have someone walk them to their classes and plus they will get made fun of for going to a dance by themselves.
Cedric is a black boy trying to be accepted in a white college and it isn’t easy at all. Cedric grew up in a bad neighborhood, Cedric’s neighborhood is not a safe place to be. In the book A Hope in the Unseen, (Suskind 22,) ” A boy a few feet away from them grabs another boy around the neck, pulls out a pistol, and holds it to the other kid’s head” Cedric sees that kind of violence all the time and he doesn’t just see that kind of violence, he also gets the emotional disrespect that hurts. In the story Cedric is always being bullied. At first it doesn’t bother Cedric, he is proud of what he has accomplished. Then Cedric is just fed up with being pushed in the halls and being called harsh names. Cedric is a brilliant boy and can go really far in what ever he chooses but he needs to not let the violence get to him. Cedric drop out of the science fair just because of being angry at his teacher for telling him that someone needed the computer. That wasn’t the only reason he snapped on his teacher there are other reasons, Phillip had been picking on him for the past week or so and he just