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The Wire

By David Simon and Ed Burns - Television series

Television seriesScreen

Roles

  • D'Angelo - Young Adult (20-35), Male

About this piece

Y'all don't understand, man

Summary

This is the first season's final episode. The police has been investigatin the Barksdale's family drug dealing empire in Baltimore by setting up a wire on payphones and pages used by the drug dealers. At the end of the season, they finally make arrests. Here we have D'Angelo, the nephew of the boss' Avon Barksdale. He worked for his uncle selling drugs with the help of a bunch of kids. When one of those kids, Wallace, wants out and gets killed, D'Angelo has a change of heart and here, while being interrogated, he tells them why he did what he did and that he wants out and start over again. If they give him that, he'll give the everybody in the organization

Tone

PersuasiveDescriptiveLamentingComplainingFrustratedSpeechReminiscing life story/Telling a story

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