The Destructors Essay

His attitude changed based on the environments he was in. The main setting in the book was unknown city. The unknown city was the birth place of TJ and it was where he grew. In his teenage years, he made bad decision, did everything the gangs want him to do. When he was 13 year old he was sent to the foster home care. There he had people who cared about him. After living in a loving home for two years, his mother suddenly wanted him back. When he went back the only way for him to survive his environment consequently is to join the gang. There wasn't much of a problem with his mother anymore. He has to fight to live.

Gangs have a lots of love for each other. “ Randy was supposed to be too cool to feel anything, and yet there was pain in his eyes .I'm sick of all this. Sick and tired. Bob was a good guy. He was the best buddy a guy ever had. ”. This quote shows how much Randy loved Bob and the bond between the two guy Bob was

The sad reality is that society does not take a minute to step out of their shoes and try to understand why someone becomes a gang member. Throughout Barking to the Choir, two common themes that arise is the lack of love, and growing up with a rough childhood. For many, survival becomes the priority, especially if they have siblings to look out for. Thus, gang life is not an ideal choice but rather a lucrative option. Through Rational Choice Theory, it is easy to place blame on the gang member, but the reality is that for a plethora of gang members there was no other

| Tom wants his old life back prior to the accident and he sees the accident as the end of his life as he knew it. He loses his sense of identity and sense of family in particular.Feels guilty and ashamed about the irrevocable consequences his brother’s irresponsibility had for other people and their familiesRetreats into a depressed state which feels empty and black.

As Hoover gang grew, he combined his gang with another leader named David Barksdale gang making the Gangster Disciples even more larger. In 1969, after Barksdale was killed in a shooting. Hoover took reins of the Gangster Disciples. Hoover formed not only a gang but a movement as well. He and his fellow gang members took over the South Side drug trade. Making more than 1,000 a day in profits.

Taylor receives no explanation from the woman who leaves Turtle with her, yet Taylor still takes on huge responsibility of caring for the child. Then, Taylor starts to notice a lot of things that makes her wandering what happened with the little girl. Taylor starts noticing Turtle’s smile while she was bathing her, and she also discovers that Turtle has been sexually molested and abused. By discovering these details of Turtle’s life, Tylor want to know more about Turtle’s life. She start working, but Tylor keeps thinking about Turtle. For example, in page (69) Tylor starts the work at Burger Derby, but after 6 days she quiet. She kept thinking about Tylor and who will take care of her while she is in work. That shows how Tylor start acting like mother when she left her job and tried to find a good place for her and

In one of the most repellent cases, Thomas finds Charlie smearing his faeces on himself and on the carpet floor. The thought of cleaning this mess makes Thomas feels e trapped in his brother’s world,. Thomas pushed Charlie to the ground and punched him angrily., This behaviour deeply enrages him and makes him break down. Thomas loves Charlie despite ofthe problems. But Thomas further feels embarrassed in front of his girlfriend Jackie on account of Charlie’s actions and longs for his brother to be normal, just so Thomas can have a normal relationship with everyone. He is also annoyed by the fact that his parents resort to using sign language to communicate with Charlie and often treat him like a baby. Thomas is also entrusted with the task of taking Charlie on the bus, which adds further to his discontent.

uses this advantage to manipulate the gang into taking on a task that is more extreme than their normal daily bad deed; his own ambition. He uses his higher education and adept social skills to trick the boys into agreeing to fulfilling his own ambition; destroying Old Misery’s house. The gang normally use their time to carry out petty crimes like, “At Blackie’s suggestion the gang was to disperse in pair, take the buses at random and see how many free rides could be snatched from unwary conductors.” This activity may be frowned upon and slightly illegal, but they would never get arrested for it. Which is one of Blackie’s main goal as the leader of the gang; he is trying to keep every one out of jail. “Blackie said, ‘Nobody’s going to pinch things. Breaking in-that’s good enough, isn’t it? We don’t want any court stuff.’” However, when T. challenges Blackie to do something more daring, Blackie is hesitant, and T. seizes the chance to replace him as leader of the gang. “‘‘You can stand down, Blackie, if you’d rather…’” T. did this by describing the destruction of Old Misery’s house as grown up and more of a challenge for the boys, leading them astray from their minor crime lives and into the big leagues. T. puts the gang at risk of being arrested for breaking and entering, and vandalism among many other things, he slowly pushes their limits and bends their morals with the project of destroying Old Misery’s

Frank Gottie is one of the most well known gang member of The Eight-Tray Criminal Hoover in Memphis.  Gottie believes that gangs are becoming to spin out of control, that it needs to be a solution to gang activity. On July 10, 2016 Gottie says “I ain’t never seen heaven before, but it was like a Memphis heaven everybody was on one accord “, if the gangs could be on the same page for Black Lives Matter (Jones and Fretland, 2016) . Why can’t it happen for the youth? Ar’tavius Brown was 18 years old and joined a gang called the Pirus the Blood Alliance. Brown joined gang activity in South Memphis because he saw “people with the cars, with the money”(Goggans, 2014). Brown was put with the ramifications of having a gun shoot out at Central High school,but the judge saw something within Brown and gave him a second chance.

This book was different than other literature that had been produced, because Duran was able to get closer and inspect the deeper characteristics of gang life and gang members themselves. This is something that other researchers in the field are typically not able to accomplish. He took on the perspective of investigating what role racial oppression had with the development of gangs. His perspective and his ex-gang membership background allowed him to be more trusted by all the gang members that he interviewed for this research.

this point, he has lost his friend, his job, his relationship with his spouse, and his house. Despite all of these things, he continues on. He reaches the climax of his change from a brain washed conformist to a justice seeking citizen when he seeks revenge on his fellow

Gang members are full of shame, because their past is made up of poor decisions. Father Gregory Boyle proves that many times people, in this case gang members don't realize how they are when he explains, “You show them the blue sky of their sacredness, and they are transfixed only by the ominous clouds” (Boyle 100). Gang members don't feel like they can be seen as acceptable people, everytime they are told something positive they think something negative to contradict what they just got told.

Why is gang affiliation such an alluring, appealing lifestyle? Admittedly, the appeal is conceivable. Watching Boyz in the Hood or listening to hip-hip may cause some to think, “I can live that life,” but thought does not turn into action while others never formulate such a thought. This raises the question, why does Monster Kody Scott, consider devout gang membership as a sole objective despite constant contingencies of incarceration and demise? To answer this question, this paper will take the social disorganization position in its review of Monster: An Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member. In addition, this paper will use examples to show that social disorganization explains the behavior portrayed the book.

Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies, soon after the creation of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father, and a full family raised solely by his mother, Kody Scott led the stereotypical “ghetto” life, a poor and broken home. However he does not blame this on his own personal decision to join the Crips while only eleven year’s old. The allure of the respect and “glory” that “bangers” got, along with the unity of the “set”(name for the specific gang) is what drew him into the gang. Once joined, he vowed to stay in the “set” for life, and claimed that banging was his life. After many years of still believing this, he eventually realized that the

This meant people in the project could not get rid of the gang, and therefore were subject to its leadership. And the main thing the gang liked to do was tax people. As a car washer, Michael explained it, “he and Kris paid T-Bone (a gang member) 15 percent of their weekly revenue. Just as J.T.’s foot soldiers squeezed a little money from squatters and prostitutes, his higher-ranked officers supplemented their income with more substantial taxes.” (Venkatesh 88). JT and the gang taxed anyone and everyone who worked or lived in the projects. It wasn’t just the gang however; as Ms. Bailey had power as well and also taxed people who lived in the projects. “If you sold food out of your kitchen or took in other peoples children to baby-sit, you’d better give Ms. Bailey a few dollars, or you might find a CHA manager knocking on your door.” (Venkatesh