I've been reading the book We Beat the Streets. The book is a true story about 3 doctors who grew up in the ghetto in New Jersey. The book tells us about the lives of the 3 boys and what they had to go through in a rough neighborhood.

When Rameck, Sampson and George were in high school they started hanging out with other friends. Some were crack sellers and they liked to get into trouble a lot. For example, Sampson started hanging out with this one guy that ended up selling crack to a crack head. The told the crack head to not smoke it in this place but he did it any ways so they beat the crack head up. The cops came a they arrested them all but sampson got out because he had good grades.

They all went down with the bad friends to jail. But they all had each backs(Rameck,goerge, and sampson). but they all had somthing in common they al wanted to go to college(Rameck,goerge, and sampson) but the other bad kids doubted them because no one from there hood ever went to college. But they wanted to be the first and they did.

Reaction: 3-4

my reaction was some kids profed the streets that anthing is poisable. and they also had to do it with the treats of drugs, crackheads and that they where black.what suprised me the most is how many times they went to jail and got out.

Connections:i use to be in the ghetto then my mom graduated from college and she got a good job and then we moved. it was hard because there was drugs and gangs everwhere where i use to live in NY