On their way home Billy and his new friend Darcy decide to stop by the hotel so they could buy a carton of stubbies. At that moment Billy feels like he has to say yes or he is going to lose Darcy as a friend but he also want to make a good impression on Darcy. On their way to the bar Darcy bring up some memories of Billys past. His uncle, his dead father, his brother and his sister. He can never escape these people. The bar on the red birck hotel is almost empty when two friends arrived. The barman won't serve drinks to them and Billy gets mad at the barman. In the end of the fight the barman yells at Billy and he called him a black bastard. At that moment Billy …... that he is not white. He is black and nothing is going to change that. But at some point Billy believed that he was white. He has been living the white mans live and not at one point thought that he was black.
The year Billy turned eighteen he has forgotten all about his black family. Billy saw himself as a white person and now he was looking down at the black people. Billy has success and playing for the state. This is one of the things that make billy look down on his people.
I think that Billy needs to get away. He needs to think about his life and where he belongs. But in the end the way that the sergeant treats Billy is not fair. Even though he is black. Billy belongs at home with his family and not in the prison. But what Billy did was wrong. He did not deserved to live the life he