![]() ![]() Part III opens with a quick flash forward to Elwood many years later as a young man starting up a moving company in New York. Elwood keeps a secret record of their deliveries. But it allows Elwood and Turner to have a degree of freedom. In Community Service, they discreetly sell off supplies and food allocated for the benefit of the Nickel boys, so the staff can pocket the cash. Turner also gives Elwood advice on how to survive Nickel, and he helps to get Elwood assigned to daily task nicknamed "Community Service". When Elwood gets a severe beating by the staff, Turner tells him he's lucky, since some boys never come back after their punishments, which are held in a small white shack. Elwood make friends with a street-smart boy named Turner. In Part II, Elwood is sent to the Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school for boys. To get there, he hitches a ride, but it turns out the car is stolen (which leads to a wrongful conviction for car theft). ![]() ![]() In high school, he's accepted into a program for free classes at the local college. He grows up to be a bright, hardworking boy. He's always hoping to one day see brown faces in the dining hall. He spends a lot of time in the kitchen of the Richmond Hotel in Talahassee, where his grandmother works. In Part I, we meet a young Elwood in 1962. In the Prologue, Elwood Curtis, an older black man, decides it's time to go back to a reform school he once attended after bodies buried in a secret grave on campus are discovered. ![]()
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