Summary

“Holler, Child” begins with Quinten arriving home to his mother, the narrator; a lot of people are after him, and he has been accused of raping his boss’s daughter. His mother does not want to believe he is capable of such a thing because she knows that he was conceived through rape and does not want him to be like his father. She fondly remembers when he volunteered to start working to help his mother with the bills; he is only fifteen. Quinten tells his mother that his boss’s daughter “wanted [him]” and that he would have “stopped if she really wanted [him] to” (126). She asks him if she explicitly consented, and he does not say yes but simply says he knows that she wanted it. He confesses she did not say yes and she slaps him in the...