In reality, Amal ran away from the scene, forgetting his skateboard at the fight, and was arrested on his way home. A fight soon breaks out, in which Amal admits he threw the first punch, but Amal was not the person who beat up a white kid named Jeremy Mathis with his skateboard. The area was formerly part of Amal’s neighborhood, but only white people use it now. While out with his friends one night, the group has an altercation with a group of white boys in a recently gentrified area. Sixteen-year-old African American Amal Shahid narrates Punching the Air in verse his words and paintings illuminate each page with the story of his wrongful incarceration.
Note: This guide quotes and obscures the author’s use of the n-word.
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