Chapter 8: People Get Ready Summary and Analysis

Marley loves the look of his new look onstage and his mother catches him looking in the mirror at himself, appreciatively. Ciddy has recently gotten pregnant again with Marley's half-sister Pearl by Toddy Livingston. As soon as Ciddy finds out that she is pregnant, she goes to Wilmington, Delaware and likes it there. She decides to move there with only herself and Pearl.

The Wailers are getting to be highly successful in 1964 on all the summer stage shows, but the band is getting jealous of the higher-quality recordings they hear from some of their competitors. They try to get their producer, Dodd, to find a better way of recording.

As they are walking back and forth to the studio every day, they pass by Rita Anderson, who hangs out on her porch to solely try...