Thomas Frank (mixed: Native and American make sure he's standing up right (looking in my direction) âWhen you took baths, youâd stare at your brown arms against your white legs in the water and wonder what they were doing together on the same body, in the same bathtubâ (216). Raised Christian, heavy fear of god from his mother and his time in church. Has a drinking problem. After drinking a lot, he can enter âthe stateâ, where everything fades away/aligns/becomes well âThe hard part was singing. Youâd never been a talker. Youâd certainly never sung before. Not even aloneâ (212). -Low voice. The bass (212) âYour voice is low like your dadâsâ (212) -(214): Physically. Inherited his dadâs sunken, slightly dropped right shoulder. The limp on the right side (Gangta lean). âYou walk with a slightly dropped, sunken right shoulder. Just like your dadâs. The limp too, right side⊠some lame attempt at gangsta leanâ (214). âYouâve cultivated to look more like a statement of your individual style and less like an old basketball injury. To get injured and not recover is a sign of weakness. Your limp is practicedâ (214). âYouâre one of these big, lumbering Indians. Six feet, two thirty, chips on your shoulder so heavy it makes you lean, makes everyone look at it, your weight, what you carryâ (215). âThe chip you carry has to do with being born and raised in Oakland. A concrete chip, a slab really, heavy on one side, the half side, the side not white. As for your momâs side, as for your Ver mais