In Black Boy, by Richard Wright, Richard the protagonist, moves with his uncle Clark in Greenwood, USA. After his mother has a heart attack. There on his first day in the new school, on the school grounds at noon recess, a group of boys came to him and talked to him.
“‘Where you from?’
‘Jackson’ I answered.
‘How come they make you people so ugly in Jackson?’ he demanded.
There was loud laughter.
‘You’re not any too good-looking yourself,’ I countered instantly.
‘Oh!’
‘Aw!’
‘You hear what he told ‘im?’
‘You think you’re smart, don’t you?’ The boy asked, sneering.
‘Listen, I ain’t picking a fight,’ I said. ‘But if you want to fight, I’ll fight.’
…”
(p.91, l.3)
I like this scene because, of how realistic it sounds, this adds the scene more realism, because it’s really sound like a real conservation before a fight.