The Pact has a very strong and clear message: good friends can help lead you to amazing heights, but can also lead you to personal lows. Although there is temptation in life to constantly do wrong, and we will on occasion stray from our goals, the book clearly states that if you have a goal, and stay the course, in the long run it will pay off.
The books three main characters are Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck
Hunt. All three are African-American males growing up in Newark, NJ during the crack epidemic of the early eighties. They constantly have temptation on there back. Whether it’s joining gangs, selling drugs, robbing, or committing any other crimes, it is constantly a threat to ruin their lives. And it almost did
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