From T.J.'s own words and actions and through the narrator's observation, the reader learns that T.J. is smart and unique. It was T.J.'s idea to build a roof garden, and he figures out how to build it. He knew how to speak to other people, persuading them to do what he wanted them to do. For example, he informed the other boys to find sand and carry it up to the roof. The narrator stated, "T.J. was smart enough to start in one corner of the building, heaping up the carried earth two or three feel thick, so that

we had an immediate result to look at..." He did not want to plant grass, but the other boys kept on telling him how great it would be to play on it and to have picnics. T.J. still wanted to plant crops, but he was smart to give in. "He always knew when to give in" the narrator in the story states. He knew how to motivate the other boys and knew when to compromise. When the building owners came up and asked what they were doing, T.J. then suggested that the boys were actually trying to "pretty up" the roof. That shows that T.J. can think fast when dealing with adults.

Sensitively is what also makes T.J. unique among the others. The building owners told him that they were going to have the garden removed from the roof. T.J. could not stand that a stranger was going to tear down what they had worked on exhaustingly for weeks. He decided to let out his anger on destroying the garden himself. After the garden was destroyed, he wanted to go back home where he once lived. The reason he wanted to build a garden was to bring back

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Approximate Word count = 700
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)