Summary of Iceberg Slim's Pimp

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I remember the ache of the strain on my fragile neck muscles and the root of my tongue. I was three years old when my mother told me about it. I have tried to remember my babysitter’s face, but all I can remember is the funky ritual.
#2 I was working at a shoe shine shop when I met Steve, the banker, who would poison the core of my family’s life. I didn’t know at the time that the banker would never press another coin into my hand.
#3 I remember the last day I worked in the shoe store, when my stepfather, Henry, was extremely quiet. I didn’t understand his worry or his heartbreak. I loved Henry with all my heart, and he loved me and my mother.
#4 My father was a changed man after he was saved by Mama. He had saved his money and now had something to offer his wife and son. They went back to him, and after a week, he bought the cousin angle and broke out his best cigars and cognac for the thieves.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Ethnic studies
• Social sciences
• American

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669351122
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Iceberg Slim's Pimp
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 10 Insights from Chapter 11 Insights from Chapter 12 Insights from Chapter 13 Insights from Chapter 14 Insights from Chapter 15 Insights from Chapter 16 Insights from Chapter 17 Insights from Chapter 18 Insights from Chapter 19 Insights from Chapter 20 Insights from Chapter 21 Insights from Chapter 22
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I remember the ache of the strain on my fragile neck muscles and the root of my tongue. I was three years old when my mother told me about it. I have tried to remember my babysitter’s face, but all I can remember is the funky ritual.

#2

I was working at a shoe shine shop when I met Steve, the banker, who would poison the core of my family’s life. I didn’t know at the time that the banker would never press another coin into my hand.

#3

I remember the last day I worked in the shoe store, when my stepfather, Henry, was extremely quiet. I didn’t understand his worry or his heartbreak. I loved Henry with all my heart, and he loved me and my mother.

#4

My father was a changed man after he was saved by Mama. He had saved his money and now had something to offer his wife and son. They went back to him, and after a week, he bought the cousin angle and broke out his best cigars and cognac for the thieves.

#5

I had a difficult time dealing with the burglary, as I felt it was my mother’s fault. She had made the decision to keep the cross a secret from me.

#6

I had moved away from home when I was young, and when I met Steve, my old friend, I had thought that I could finally be happy. But Steve turned out to be a pimp, and after he attacked me, he escaped through the catacombs of the Ghetto.

#7

I had begun to play Steve’s favorite game, craps, in the alleys after school. I was impatient with the unusual thickness of his daughter’s maidenhead.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was fascinated by the scene in the red-light district where I saw a white man, with a small but voluptuous black girlfriend. The white man was tenderly caressing Party Time's weapon. I had never seen anything like that before in Rockford.

#2

I met Party Time, a hustler, at a pool hall. I was curious about his methods, so I let him pick my brain about crime. I was eventually able to hustle with him, and we made a lot of money.

#3

There are many Murphy's in the world, and they use great finesse to separate a mark from his or her money. One of the most adept of them is to hit on a trick, making it easy for them to force the sucker to qualify himself and give them everything they want.

#4

The third strike is the mark’s desperate need to relieve himself into a black body. The second is his complete inability to conceive that the black boy before him is intelligent enough to fool him.

#5

I watched as Party was attacked by the Gorilla, and I knew that he was going to be pimping soon after.