" He knew about their valuable and special natures, and offered them freedom from being locked up as "freaks of nature" - by joining him as recruited members of Team X -- an elite group of mutants.]In Midge""s apartment, Scottie pours himself a whiskey drink and then asks Midge for a recommendation of an authority on San Francisco history for research purposes, focusing more on "the small stuff, you know, people you""ve never heard of.Its documentary authenticity vividly re-creates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Jews in Nazi-occupied Krakow were first dispossessed of their businesses and homes, then placed in ghettos and forced labor camps in Plaszow, and finally resettled in concentration camps for execution.Norwood snapped back: "Poor-white is poor-white, and books won""t change him." Marvin burst in, interrupted the Norwood family at dinner, told Mr.Norwood hat his father was dead, and summoned him to help.The Death of Marvin""s Father, and Norwood""s Sponsorship of Marvin""s Education and Offer of a Job:Following a somber funeral service and burial ceremony for Tom Blake (in a simple pine coffin), the guilty-feeling Norwood - partially due to his daughter""s intercession for her classmate - begrudgingly but supportively assisted Marvin by sponsoring the continuation of his education.