Dont Forget to Finish!!

To see what young teenagers go through on a day to day basis in the ghetto’s of Chicago back in 1990’s is shocking. Watching some of the violence described in the book at such a young age is insane. Witnessing your neighbor one day, and then the next he’s shot dead in the streets; this must have had some long term affects on LeAlan and Lloyd growing up. It affects me because I was slightly naive to some of the things presented to me in the book. I wouldn’t say it was all new to me but to hear it first hand from a teenager makes it seem so much more real than if it was on the nine o’clock news. It upset me to find out about how common it was to hear gun shots with no consequences or to see a murder with no justice. How things could be so messed up in a city I live in.