Griffin Simon AP English Language Ms. Donohue Gang Leader for a Day Chapter Summary CH. 1- Characters 1 's Name: Sudhir Venkatesh. Sudhir is Indian, he was born lived in California. He walks into the projects and stays overnight with a gang even though he knows he doesn 't fit in. Sudhir respects J.T. 's rules and isn 't intrusive with the gang. Sudhir is a university student wanting his degree in Sociology. Sudhir is also intelligent because he goes undercover into a gang for his project that will gain him Harvard admission. Character 2 's Name: J.T. J.T. is a Chicago gang leader who was born and raised in the projects. He is well educated and understands Sudhir’s purpose and befriends him and keeps him under protection. This chapter is about a man named Sudhir Venkatesh he is 25 years old. He is a University student studying Sociology. After Sudhir has attended two seminars by the college he is invited to do a study on how black people live day to day. After finding a specific building he was looking for, the Robert Taylor projects, he walks right in. When walking in from left to right he could see the use of drugs. Right off the bat Sudhir is treated like an intruder, even though he is there for information and is not known around the city of Chicago. The gang that Sudhir runs in to in this book is everything but pleasant if you’re not their "own kind". Sudhir is called a Mexican, the only reason he was called Mexican was because of the way he looked. The gang, the
allowed him to know more about the world in which he claimed to hold power and status of law enforcer as well as protector. Sudhir soon came to understand how much of an impact the Black kings had on the Robert Taylor homes, but also took note of how much they also negatively impacted the community too. Although J.T. held most of the power in Robert Taylor homes, Ms. Bailey was just as influential, she represented those who did not support the presence of the gang in Robert Taylor. Despite the people’s effort to be unaffiliated with the BK gang and their money, they found themselves yet still intertwined with the web of dirty money that ran through these housing projects. In more ways the one Sudhir came to realize that the gang affiliation in these parts were more than just crimes but a way of survival for the people of Robert Taylor community. In “Gang Leader for a Day”, Sudhir Venkatesh brings forth the truths and mishaps of a life in the Chicago Housing Projects by allowing the readers to get an insight on how racism, crime, and social class affected the everyday community and individual
Joe Starks: Joe is a power-hungry politician, a businessman, and an abusive husband. He objectifies Janie and treats her like a possession. Also, he forces Janie to cover her hair with rags.
How does Sudhir’s Memoir Book give the insights on what’s happening around the world today? He dives into this risky task onto discovering the social structure of gang leaders in Chicago. The book demonstrates that Sudhir deals or sees what the gang faces with would be discrimination, racism, poverty, and fighting for survival. These happen all around the world, but to finally know the emotions, and decisions that people in slums go through everyday gives us the insight that privileged people have also the same intentions but different ways to getting there.
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The one the ten year old chooses is to be with a gang because he says I give up because both my parents died and he just does not care anymore .So he ends up on the streets with no food or money. Then he gets a little visitor the police and the officer asked him where are you currently living at and he said um I don’t have a home because both my parents died. And then the officer asked if he would like to go to a group home he said sure and when he went to the group home there was eighty five kids there. He quickley became friends with a kid named Mario. Mario was eight years old and has been in the group home for two years he had the same thing happen to him both of his parents died too. So when he became old enough to live on his own
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The novel succeeds at showing the pain of unrequited love and the feeling of being lesser than other people. Sepha, the anxious protagonist, falls for his new neighbor Judith. Judith is an outsider as an educated white woman with a African-American daughter living in Logan Circle, a poor neighborhood in the process of being gentrified. Sepha quickly becomes attached to this
We are the Wah Ching Triads, a group of triads who hang around in Downtown Los Santos, running our bar. But, behind the bar.. are we criminal triads who're smuggling guns and crack all day, making illegal business with other companys from the whole word.
This mission could have been my last. With an eight calibre pistol glued to my temple, and a Russian mafia boss with his finger on the trigger. I watched as six of his lackeys followed my partner; hiding within the shadows provided by the tall abandoned buildings that litter the city.