L.A. Gang Member by Sanyika Shakur Essay -- Monster Autobiography L.A.

L.A. aggroup Member by Sanyika Shakur Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies, soon after the origin of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father, and a sufficient family elevated solely by his mother, Kody Scott led the stereotypical ghetto life, a poor and low-spirited home. However he does not blame this on his own personalised decision to join the Crips while only eleven years old. The allure of the respect and glory that cracker bonbons got, along with the unity of the set(name for the precise camp) is what drew him into the plurality. Once joined, he vowed to stay in the set for life, and claimed that thumping was his life. After galore(postnominal) years of still believing this, he finally accomplished that the thug life was no longer for him, and that gangs were a business on society and the Afrikan race(page 382-383). In his book Monster The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, he tells of his life story and how he came and left the gang life. For thirteen years he was a member of the Eight Tray Gangsters, a set of the Crips, and throughout the book he explains, sometimes in full detail, the life he led while in the gang and his many times in jail and prison. These life stories he tells, include drive-byes, shootouts in supermarkets, parks, streets, houses etc., fist fights, group beatings, kidnapings, doing drugs, selling drugs, car-jacks, amputation, robbery, friends deaths, enemies deaths, being shot, stab fights, police abuse, jail riots, jail rapes and any other part of the gang life possible. Now if possible, imagine that this all happened within thirteen years, and to a teenager. These crimes, more specifically the brutal ones, are what got him his nickname Monster Kody. none of this really affected him though, until when in jail, he was converted to a Muslim, when he changed his name to Sanyika Shakur. However, it took him a while to realize that what he was doing was wrong and it was not what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Although he now realized this, it wasnt because of religion really, but more for the survival and advancement of the Afrikan race, as he was now becoming more and more politically and chastely conscious(page 277). After coming and going out of prison, he was struggling between the two lives he was trying to lead, one as a banger and the other as a leader for the Afrikan... ...left the gang life backside in order to raise his family in a safer environment and in addition to settle his conscience down and feel better about himself. In conclusion, Kody Scott a.k.a. Sanyika Shakur, used this book as a tool to help allow society know the dangers of the gang life, and possibly some advice to help impede gangs from growing and spreading, and also to prevent his past from becoming somebodies future. Which is best summed up in his last paragraph from the book in which he statesHow do we come to grips with the fact that this thing has gotten way too real, out of take care like some huge snowball running down a hill, threatening to smash and kill all in its path, including those who originally fashioned it? Time is of the essence, and every thinking person with a postal service in life-especially those involved in the fighting-should put forth an effort, something more concrete than a media truce, to deal with this tragedy. The children deserve to have a descent childishness where they live. They shouldnt have to be uprooted to the suburbs to experience peace. We cannot contaminate them with our feuds of madness, which are predicated on factors over which we have no control.