5/4/3/2/1 NOTES # 9

COMMENTS:

*Rapes bacame a common circunstance in LAS LOMAS valley.

*Luis starts to drink more and snorted heroin and cocaine.

*Payasa and Wilo leave the barrio, and Wilo is found dead a few weeks after, with shot all around his boby and head.

*August 29, 1970: tens thousands of people gathered in East L.A.'s Belvedere Park to protest the Vietnam War.

*Luis and the other gang members wanted to rub a store during the protest.

QUESTIONS:

*was the law being applied to the gangs by that time?

*did Luis' parents know about all the things he was doing as a ganger?

*what was the porpuse of the Vietnam War?

*who started the Vietman War? And in what ways did it affect the country?

VOCABULARY

*clawed: past of claw( a sharp, hooked nail on an animal's or bird'a foot.

*sought: pp. Of seek

*gnawing: to bite away bit by bit; consume.

*brew: to make from malt and hops by boiling and fermenting.

LITERARY TERMS:

*Indirect Characterization: "officers drove my face into the dirt; there was a athobbing in my headd where a black jack had been swung".

~It is showing the bad actions that the police do against no "anglo" people even though the quote doesn't say it directly to the reader.

SUMMARY:

In thi chapter, Luis writes about how the level of criminality is getting even higher than before, because now they are committing crimes such as rapes, murders, and rubs to stores, as he tells us that in the protes against the Vietnam War they rub a store with shotguns in their hands, and after that the pilice finally take action against the gang activity.