The Importance of Being a Follower

He's always looking around out of the corner of his eyes to see what everybody else is doing and then he copies that. And specifically he copies the one who gets the most respect. But it seems like he latches on to a figure until he finds another figure that's bigger and better and more charismatic. So it's interesting that he is throughout this book right up until, right up until his break with Elijah Muhammad.