Pg. 103 "While on spray i yelled. i laughed. i clawed at the evening sky. i felt like a cracked egg. But i wouldn't stop."
Luis shows the darker side of the barrio very well but he also shows the attractive part of the barrios. Not that the drugs and the constant "thrilling" crimes is what is attractive but the fact that they love the barrio because they find the support that these kids didn't find at school and at home .The attractiveness is the freedom and the adventure. The constant movement of adrenaline through out the bodies of the chicanos almost seems like its what calls them. They fight for territory that wasn't for them to choose but they fight for it blindly without fear of their death. They do drugs to distract themselves from the truth, this game of territory has very real consequences of death.
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