The novel “The Summer of the Monkeys” written by Wilson Rawls introduced me to a character who passed from being an egocentric poor boy to a generous and loving one. He comes from an extremely poor family that lived in northern Oklahoma on a farm called Cherokee land because it was in the middle of the Cherokee Nation. The boy is called Jay Berry and he dreamed only about getting a pony and a .22. He …showed first 75 words of 1892 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1892 total…done, he gave it to his sister, as a generous and loving brother, to get her leg fixed. “I had never seen my sister so happy. It made me feel good all over.” (p.290) demonstrated me and assured me that for the rest of his life he will never forget what good he did to his family, specially to his sister, that summer. He will always remember that summer as “The Summer of the Monkeys”.