Priscilla (MSCOZY) reviewed on 10/28/2009

I wanted to try and learn why anyone would want to join a gang. From Monster's point of view, he saw it as becoming something big, maybe like a rite of passage and he joined when he was 11. Eventually, after years in prison, Monster comes to realize that he was actually doing harm to his family, friends, neighborhood and race. It saddened me that it took him so much tragedy and time to figure this out. Once he sat down and learned to read and began reading and became educated, his outlook into life took a turn for the better. This book is an eye opener into the mind of a youth looking to belong to something; I only wish all this energy was put into something positive in their neighborhood. I came from a gang area, growing up in projects. You have to believe that there is more out there and work toward that , getting out of the projects or bad neighborhoods. Education is the primary way to advance in life. Drugs, guns, sex, gangs and all that material stuff won't make you happy, just dead.

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