Daniel Sanchez

5/4/3/2/1 NOTES #7

COMMENTS:

*The narrator’s nickname was Louie (all his family called him like that /friends didn’t)

*Louie fights against Topo who was an old guy that had been in prison/jail.

*The author joins another gang called “Las Lomas locos”, because his old gang/club was gone.

*Louie plunged a screwdriver into the stomach of a driver who the gang had injured before.

*The narrator and his gang were committing many crimes, which were published in the newspapers (crimes such as shootings, rubbing, murders, and many more)

QUESTIONS:

*what were the reasons the police never stopped the criminality in Las LOmas and its surroundings.


*only Mexicans were into gangs, or were other races involved with it too?


*how many years did the gang activity didn’t stop increasing in South San Gabriel?

*what characteristics did the members of gangs had?

VOCABULARY:

*rife: widespread.

*moth: a four- winged, chiefly night-flying insect, similar to the butterfly: the larvae of one kind feed on wool, etc.


LITARARY TERMS:

*Personification: “do it! Were the last words I recalled before I plunged the screwdriver into flesh and bone, and the sky screamed”.

~the narrator gives life to the sky when he says the sky screamed/he attributes action to the sky that has no life.

SUMMARY:

This time, the author tells us that he joins a new gang, and explains with details and examples how the ganging works. For instance he gets into a club, and what he has to do to be respected (he had to plunge a screwdriver on a person/doesn’t tell if that person dies or not) by the other members of the gang. He also tells us that he and his gang become criminals, and he kind of liked it, even though he had to suffer many things such as being hit by all the members of the gang, and also fight against Topo to join the club.