![]() Pop begins to tell Jojo about his time in Parchman, the prison. It was after this incident that Jojo began calling his mother by her first name instead of “mom.” Jojo recalls a time in which he stepped on the lid of a can when his mother abandoned him at home. Jojo thinks about the salad days of the past, before Leonie, his mother, began using drugs and Michael was in prison. He sends his grandson inside to check on her, but Jojo finds that she is sleeping peacefully. ![]() Pop tells Jojo that he hears Kayla crying. Jojo is deeply affected by the brutality of the goat’s killing, and when Jojo is asked to clean out the insides of the goat’s stomach, he is overcome by the pungent smell. Jojo watches painfully as Pop wrestles the goat and then slits its throat and stomach. Pop is a father figure in Jojo’s life, since Jojo's biological father, Michael, is in prison. Jojo follows Pop as he picks an “unlucky goat” from the pasture. Careful to not wake his family, Pop, Jojo’s grandfather, asks for his grandson’s help on the farm. Jojo’s baby sister, Kayla, is also sleeping. His grandmother, Mam, is asleep in the house-she’s bed-bound due to her chemotherapy treatment. ![]() Jojo is half-Black and half-white, and he lives with his Black grandparents and his mother. ![]()
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