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| Character | D'Angelo | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Young Adult (20-35) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Persuasive, Descriptive, Lamenting, Complaining, Frustrated, Speech, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 2002 | |
| Period | Contemporary | |
| Genre | Drama, Crime | |
| Props | A picture | |
| Description | Y'all don't understand, man | |
| Details | Season 1, Ep. 13, "Sentencing" 21 minutes into the episode | |
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
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| Excerpt |
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| D'ANGELO: "Y'all don't understand, man. Y'all don't get it. You grow up in this shit. My grandfather was Butch Stamford. You know who Butch Stamford was in this town? All my people, man, my father, my uncles, my cousins...it's just what we do. You just live with this shit til you cannot breathe no more...." |
