#8230;. Things will not be as easy for you at home as here, there’s not much money for food and things…. I want to be where my mother is.” While extended family plays a pretty important role in Malcolm and Richard’s lives, Tommy was alienated from his family and it didn’t play a very important role.As these characters were growing up, both racism and their extended families shaped them into the men they were going to become. Malcolm is shaped through the murder of his family and by the ideals set before him by Ella and his brother while he was in prison. Also, Richard was changed by his father leaving, living with his grandma and the experience of growing up in a very racist society. While Tommy wasn’t affected by his family, racism played a key role in his childhood and he decided to overcome racism by becoming stronger and more powerful than his enemies. Each man grew up in a different situations, but there were many similarities and they all experienced some form of crime in their lives and grew up to become different men based on their reations to their childhoods....
