- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Here, Slater more fully introduces Richard and life in East Oakland, where school attendance is less important than in Sasha’s middle-class neighborhood. This quote again underscores the social and economic differences between East Oakland and the wealthier neighborhoods located in the hills, and it illustrates what those differences look like in real life. Furthermore, Slater’s use of the word “you” has the added effect of making the reader feel as if they are actually experiencing these differences, which leads to increased empathy and understanding of how easy it is to slip down the wrong path of “the fork in the…