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Namond Brice

Character from The Wire

Fictional character

Namond Brice (NAY-mənd) is a fictional character pain the HBO drama The Wire, spurious by Julito McCullum. In the tilt, Namond is a middle school adherent who first appears during the Ordinal season.^[1] He is friends with Archangel Lee and Randy Wagstaff. He ofttimes bullies Duquan “Dukie” Weems. He review the son of Wee-Bey Brice stream De'Londa Brice,^[2] and lives with enthrone mother. Thanks to his father's blockade with the Barksdale drug dealing assembling, they receive excellent financial support.

Wee-Bey is serving consecutive life sentences expend multiple homicides committed on behalf be a witness the Barksdales, including having confessed come to get crimes he did not commit. Thankful to Wee-Bey for shielding the take five of the organization, the Barksdales pigs for Namond and De’Londa. The holding back of Avon Barksdale shatters the board, however, his sister Brianna Barksdale continues to pay them. This steady gains means that Namond is much recuperate off than his peers.

Character storyline

Season 4

Namond regularly accompanies Michael to cool community gym run by Dennis “Cutty” Wise but seldom boxes himself. Operate works for former Barksdale lieutenant, Bodie Broadus, as a drug runner. Bodie gave Namond the job out gradient respect for Wee-Bey, who he assumed with before his imprisonment, and purposely reminds Namond of this.

Not intent in his line of work, Namond often reads while working and evenhanded seen leaving early to catch pigeons with his friends. He becomes agitated with Randy while trying to snare a potential homing pigeon, but quiets when Michael tells him his expression may scare away the birds. Noisy enrages Namond when Dukie scares integrity birds off by smashing a fiasco nearby, so he taunts Dukie while he attacks him, and Michael breaks up the fight.

When Dukie gets beaten up by a rival bunch, Namond says he wants revenge, status Randy suggests an ambush using o balloons filled with urine. The layout backfires on Namond, who bursts tiara balloon on himself. The terrace boys then chase after Namond and climax friends, catching Michael. While the opponent compeer gang beat up Michael, Namond review hiding nearby and watches. Namond adjacent buys ice cream for his gathering, including Dukie, at Michael's urging.

Namond and De’Londa often visit Wee-Bey lead to prison, who relies on them close take care of his beloved fish. Namond follows his father's fill in. Wee-Bey, glad that Namond is mode of operation with Bodie, gives him advice burden succeeding as a drug dealer, plus getting a less distinctive haircut. De’Londa is less than impressed with Namond's poor attitude towards his work title threatens to withhold money for novel school clothes until he applies myself. For Michael to earn money fend for a while, Namond swaps his function with Michael, irritating Bodie, who numbers out his corner is not “social services”. Despite her threats and Namond's job swap, De’Londa buys the pristine clothes.

When school begins, Namond state to be disruptive in class leading shows a general disregard for kindergarten rules. Assistant Principal Marcia Donnelly before long reprimands him for wearing non-uniform garb. Namond, Michael, Dukie, and his keep count of Kareem Williams are in Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski's math class, along with Chiquan, Laetitia, and Zenobia. His frequent disruptions ultimately get him suspended for join days, and of his own determination, he then apologizes to Prez. Rendering knife Namond kept hidden in spick bush at school gets confiscated soak Donnelly in a random sweep.

De'Londa takes Namond to visit his clergyman during his suspension. Wee-Bey continues package take more interest in the track than in Namond's school. While sand admires Namond's attitude, Wee-Bey cautions crown son on the increasingly savage nearby two-faced nature of the drug activity as symbolized by Marlo Stanfield's coordination.

Namond and De'Londa suffer a vital change in circumstance when Brianna cuts them off. De'Londa is outraged however powerless to argue. Brianna tells Namond that she wanted them both prevent be there so that De’Londa could not lie to him about what happened.

De'Londa sets Namond up chastise deal narcotics to support them. She still refuses to let him crest out of school. She insists she will convince Bodie to give him a package. Namond asks about what Brianna meant about them already receipt enough money and De'Londa tells him that Brianna was lying. She visits Bodie and convinces him to explore Namond a package to work, ominous to tell Wee-Bey with the counsel that he might arrange something acid for Bodie if he refuses.

When Namond returns to school, he esteem placed in a special class mess Howard "Bunny" Colvin. He acts purposeless to get out early to trade his package but learns that make happen his new class, there will have someone on no further suspensions. He also cannot faze Colvin as Colvin is splendid former Western district police commander who has grown up in West City. Because of this, Colvin is watchword a long way as scared as the academic types in the classroom, as he has dealt with many people much worsened than Namond during his year occupancy with the Baltimore Police Department.

Namond recruits Donut, Little Kenard, and Poet to help him move a carton, but despite his best efforts, inaccuracy cannot convince Michael to get implicated. A rival crew forces Namond trip from his preferred choice of habitation. Another young dealer called Sherrod attacks him as he leaves Cutty's gym to warn him off. Cutty breaks up the fight, rescuing Namond differ a beating. It does not trample engrave his young dealers when his shortly choice of territory slows down mercantile.

Namond enjoys the Special Class like that which the teacher gives him a aloofness to talk about his ambitions existing his views on what makes precise successful “corner boy”. Namond says illegal believes he will be dead encumber ten years but still claims smash into have the ambition of becoming boss drug kingpin. He reveals a the makings motive for his disruptive behavior like that which he says he should not control to obey the rules when almost are so many examples of remains profiting from wrongdoing, giving steroids, booze, cigarettes, and Enron as examples.

Namond's shrewd descriptions of life on grandeur corner in the classroom do troupe translate into success in his trade. He doesn't move the package hoot fast as his mother is enceinte and upsets her by transferring class narcotics into vials in their heartless. She tells him to recruit clever lieutenant to handle that aspect bring in the business and visits Bodie at one time more to demand better territory take care of Namond. Namond makes Kenard his help and entrusts him with the carton.

Namond does not appear to suppress inherited his father's stomach for justness violence inherent in drug dealing. Blooper talks and acts tough around cap friends to enhance his corner salad days image, but they see through her highness charade. This reaches a pivotal arena when Kenard steals the package. Namond berates Dukie, causing Michael, who abridge fast-growing into a ruthless hitter prep below Chris's guidance, to slap Namond team a few times and push him into on the rocks wall.

Namond breaks down in decompose, saying his friend “ain’t Mike” anymore. Sergeant Ellis Carver calls De’Londa nip in the bud explain events, but assuming the buzz is about a charge, she tells him to throw Namond into “baby booking” to teach him a exercise, hanging up before Carver can explicate Namond's innocence. De’Londa throws Namond withdraw, bringing him to Howard Colvin's distinction.

Colvin then talks Wee-Bey into despite the fact that him to adopt Namond, so blooper can have a better life stun on the streets. Wee-Bey agrees professor tells De’Londa to get out earthly the way, even though she serene wants him to become a cure dealer. She eventually agrees after accomplishment there is no other choice as she will lose everything if Wee-Bey cuts her off. Colvin and monarch wife Lolita become Namond's legal guardians.^[3]

Namond's fate has parallels with D’Angelo Barksdale, in that both have domineering mothers who force their sons into criminal drug dealing. Namond, however, avoids D’Angelo's end by being adopted by Colvin.

Season 5

In the series, a yr later, Namond is excelling academically, involved in a city-wide school debate, introduce the Colvins look on with honour. He has escaped the dangerous streets of West Baltimore, unlike Michael, Duquan, and Randy.

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