Write a distinctive paragraph about Tommy

Tommy Lewis enters the narrative at the age of seventeen. Tommy is an excellent student and a star player for the Curry Cougars. Tommy dreams of playing college basketball for Johnson City State College. Tommy is the son of Robert Smalls (Planter) Lewis and Virginia (Bates) Lewis. Tommy is an only child. Tommy's grandparents are Abby Lewis and Mary (Hardin) Lewis. Moses and Saran are Tommy's great-great-grandparents.

When the chapter opens, Tommy Lewis lives on Curry Island with his parents. By 1964, blacks across the United States are marching and protesting in an effort to be treated equally to whites under the law, but Tommy is far more concerned with his future as a basketball star. Tommy wants to go to college but he has no definitive plans beyond that.