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Reading the first couple of entries in The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll things get very intense. From the basketball games, stealing clothes, to all the drugs (sniffing glue, trying heroin for the 1st times, and marijuana). Just 13 and a half years old, Jim seemed to have been through more things than any normal teenager growing up in the streets of New York.
One scene that stood out to me was when Jim was told to go to confession by his “Brother” and told the priest that he was forced and he never went to first communion either. The priest then began to yell and told the Brother that he should have never done that to Jim. I always thought that the priest would have reacted the way he did. Do all priest act like that? What was the reason of him acting in such a way?
Quote: “That thing is going to blow up into a gang war soon.”(Carroll 11)
This section of the book talked about violence and how one boy beat up another boy and then revenge was taken place for the boy that was beaten up by his brother. Things just kept escalating into a bigger problem and that’s how it is living in environments’ such as Roxbury or Dorchester. If you were to touch someone’s family member they are going to come after you and then when you think about it, it’s like gangs going after each other and then someone ends up losing their life.
