Ivan Sanchez, Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx

Ivan Sanchez, Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx

Part 1

Discussion Point 4

While attending the funerals and witnessing his peers going off to prison, Ivan Sanchez observed himself fighting to earn a truthful and straightforward living however gave the call of trouble-free money a way (Sanchez, 2008). Sanchez remembered an employment he had while working at a clothing store which was Korean-owned where he remembered the alarm code and utilized it to rob the shop afterwards with a bunch of thugs. In a declaration of guilt filled with remorse and reflection, he acknowledged that he had no business mugger those painstaking Korean people, who earned a living working 16 hours in a day, and he is pleased he didn't gain anything from that robbery.

Yet, Sanchez by no means really provides details on his revolution from street life to a respectful lifestyle. The present motivational speaker and youth supporter, who holds both a bachelor's as well as an associate degree, concludes his chronicle with a discourteous praise to his graffiti days and overlooks to point out the turning points that guided him to the narrow and straight path (Sanchez, 2008). There is a very fine line between glorifying and retelling and this book does stagger on the right side, however time will settle on the lasting message of the work and its impact.

Discussion Point 5

Ivan Sanchez's Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx, the coming-of-age chronicle, pursues the in illustrious customs of first-person stories, like Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, in which the protagonist of the book rises above the unholy urban subversive to attain deliverance. Thus, Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx is a classic story of a young boy who goes on the right path after a full of crimes life narrated with a hip-hop background. Away from the protection of news headlines of the New York city, Next Stop is a journey into the Bronx heart all through the late 80s and early 90s at the peak of the crack outbreak, a turbulent era when hip-hop was given birth and greedy slumlords were incinerating apartment buildings with occupants still within (Sanchez, 2008). This grainy chronicle, from one stop to the other, tags along Ivan Sanchez and his boys on their hunt for individuality and a run away from poverty in a bleak world where all-night crime symphonies, street wars and drug-fueled chaos were as scheduled as the train number 4.

Discussion Point 8

In the book “Next Stop: Growing Up Wild-Style in the Bronx”, cocaine dealing and graffiti vandalism indicate the flourishing of rap culture as the author narrates the chronicle of his young boys finding the way in the perfidious Bronx in the eighties and nineties. Although this book shows correspondence to classic memoirs by writers of color, this memoir appears to lack the political insight and organization to make an extraordinary mark on the field. Nonetheless, Sanchez's stories of territorial beefs on Health Avenues, ...