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I am almost finished with the book Down These Mean Streets. The book takes place when he was a teenager and the book is in first person. This book is about a boy named Piri that live in El Barrio and it talks about how he grew up and the problems he went through. Piri strongly dislikes his race because people were racist back then and he didn't like to be compared with his family members. His brother gets more advantages because of his lighter skin and blue eyes.Due the the reason that his not as imporant as his brother he started to sell drugs. We went from weed to heroin, he made alot of money but he still got caught. He was sentense for six years and when he got out he was on parol for another 3 years.

Piri joins and fights with street gangs and when he was selling heroin there was a time where he was suffers through heroin addiction. Piri's family didn't really like African American because of their skin color. Piri is cuban but his skin color is darker than his family so his family tent to issolate him. This causes Piri to spend much of his teenage and early adult life contemplating his racial and ethnic identity.Piri expends a lot of energy on his efforts to fit in. He put him self through alot of trobule to gain and maintain his reputation. Piri been through so many problem like robbing a night club, hitting teachers, selling drugs, and almost kill a police officer.The main problem about Piri is that hot-temper and violent thought.His family told them that he had ashamed them and their family name because he went to jail.Piri went through 6 years of jail all because of his anger issue.