Jim Carroll is not just any ordinary Irish 13 year old boy. He has been through it all; drugs(cocine,weed,meth,ect.), sex, and always out on the street getting drunk to the point where he doesn't even remember anything that happened the next day. Everytime when school is over he would go to hang with his friends and they would just sniff glue and get "wasted." At the age of thirteen roaming in the streets of New York.
There was a point in the story i thought that he was going to change, which was when his friend Bobby Sachs lost his life from a night that they all got drunk, but Bobby took a little too much more than everyone else and he began to puke so they decided to talk him outside for fresh air and he ran away from them and feel to the ground when they picked him up they realized that he wasn't moving or saying a word and a police man noticed them and came over to help and they found out that he was dead. Knowing that his friend past away Carroll didn't seem to be affected by the whole situation and kept at it with all the drugs and alcohol.
Quote: " I left dazed out in the street like I had just come out of a four hour movie I didn't understand" (Carroll68)
How come he didn't change? Knowing that this could happen to him he still kept with it, why? He didn't understand what took place at the funeral, looking at a 16 year old that look 40.
When do you reach that point and say when am I going to make a difference?
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