Final Exam Part 2

1. Billy's mother says he began stealing at an age when many kids are learning to read."That was when he figured out bad attention was better than none at all," Ruth Evanssays. "It's never stopped after that."

This made me realize how long he has been doing this, which will make it difficult to change.

2. In a 6-by-4-foot cinder block room in the courthouse basement divided by a glass security window — jail on one side, free world on the other — Billy weighs his options.

It puts you with Billy and makes you realize how hard this decision is.

3. The entire family accompanies Billy on his first visit to the Texas Youth Commission's parole office on East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. It's in a low, tan, unmarked building across the street from a convenience store. The Nos. 23 and 18 buses run there.

I think that the writer was trying to give the reader the clearest image he possibly could.