In the book this girl named Netta grew up without a father and a mother that was on drugs. She fell in love with this man they called Black, and he ended up hurting her. So she felt like she did not have anybody that would be there for her so she started to use people to get that she wanted and what she needed. I connect to the part about using people to get what I wanted because there was a time when I was in love with this person and I felt like he was my world. But in the end he hurt me real back and I felt like my life was all over. So instead of getting my heart broken first I started to break other peoples hearts. I used them and when I got what I wanted to quickly dropped them. I learned from that though because I felt what I was doing was wrong, and just because I got hurt that one time I should know and understand how that felt, so I should not do that to other people.