Reading response #4

this book that I have been hooked on for a little bit now is called If I grow up and so far in the book the cousin of the leader of one of the gangs is killed by the other rival gang and it is right out side the main characters apartment and DeShawn is in the sixth grade he is used to the sounds of gunshots going off and people dying  and he doesn't like it in the projects and he wants to get out but all his friends and family live here and one day his teacher talks to him about going to this school in a better area where he could get out and get a better education cause he really does care about his education not like all the other kids.                                                   

  "by the age of twelve, seeing dead folks was nothing new. The gangbanger who lay glassy eyed in a pool of blood in the lobby. the lady who was stabbed and crawled down four flights of stairs, leaving a long brownish red trail before she bled out" this really shows how kids in the projects really see everything and it tends to be normal for them but take a kid who hasn't he couldn't imagine what it would be like to witness it I think this is why he wrote a book like this to get the point across that not every kid grows up the same way.



the picture I chose was bullets because this whole book so far has been based off of killing people and gangs and the imagines that come to my mind is bullets