Manny’s closest friends, despite the fact that he often expresses racially-charged ideas and casually cracks bigoted jokes. In his Societal Evolution class one day, he argues that racial inequality no longer exists in the United States, refusing to hear SJ’s argument that he’s only able to say this because he’s fortunate enough to have never experienced discrimination. To prove that equality is alive and well, Jared persuades his friends—including Manny and Justyce—to dress up as “stereotypes” for Halloween. Jared himself goes as a “Yuppie/Politician,” while Justyce dresses as a “thug” and Manny puts together a “token black guy” costume. However, even Jared seems uncomfortable when he sees that Blake has decided to wear a Ku Klux Klan outfit, though he doesn’t say anything—another indication that he’s unwilling to fully admit the prevalence of racism. In yet another argument in Societal Evolution, he angrily upholds that Justyce has only been admitted to Yale during the “early action” period because he’s black, claiming that Yale has to meet a “quota” of black students. Jared himself has been deferred, which is why he’s so upset about Justyce’s success. Later still, Jared gets into a fight with Manny after making a racist joke, and his parents decide to press charges against Manny for hitting their son. This lawsuit never comes to fruition, though, since Manny is shot and killed by Officer Tison. This deeply upsets Jared, who eventually does go to Yale. When he’s home for Christmas the following year, he bumps into Justyce at Manny’s grave, and he tells him that he has decided to become a civil rights lawyer. Standing over Manny’s grave, the two boys decide to be friends.
Plants are producers. They make their own food, which creates energy for them to grow, reproduce and survive. Being able to make their own food makes them unique; they are the only living things on Earth that can make their own source of food energy.
