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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 the country feeling to the city. He did not want to give up his country life. He has an olfactory sense of ...

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