Theoretical Analysis of Hell's Angels

Theoretical Analysis of Hell's Angels

Introduction

Sonny Barger, the ruler of the road variety, chopper pilots is a true American idol, and his memoirs is an account of the lifestyle of a biker. Being the president of Hell's Angels Oakland chapter, he has come across and survived altercations and issues with the Rolling Stones, peaceniks, and the police (Barger, 2001). He observes fine points, for instance the detail that it was Emmett Grogan, who proposed that the Angels work safety measures at the Stones' unfortunate free show at California. He very indifferently and casually admits to offensive acts, like pulling his weapon on Keith Richards before a live audience (Barger, 2001). However, withal, he takes in only rather more violence and sex in his life history than one comes across in majority of contemporary memoirs. Without doubt, specific expressions of the biker attitudes of Barger may horrify the particulars. This book is a fine cultural document. Sonny Barger draws an interesting image of a distinguishing subculture that acquires valuable little literary concentration.

Discussion

Hell's Angel by Sonny Berger is book that presents the atrocious truth on the subject of the life subsequent to war in the United States of America. It provides personal imminent to how the sub cultural life in the U.S. was affected by the effects of this war. The book is not projected for the politically insightful or readers who look forward to an idealistic perspective of the sub-cultural post war life in the U.S. It is a captivating and compelling personal description of the life of Sony Barger and the scratches that he coped to get into. Barger was born in 1938 in California and spent his juvenile years developing in Oakland (Barger, 2001). This was the time period between 1940s and 1950s. He got abandoned by his mother for the first time when he was scarcely four months old. He spent his childhood with an elder sister and an alcoholic father. According to Barger, he was suspended from school many times for attacking the teachers physically and fighting aggressively with fellow students.

Though looking back at that time now, he declares that he does not regard himself as an aberrant or bully person (Barger, 2001). In spite of losing concentration in school he used to spend a good time reading and working at a store. Barger highlights that he did not fall back on stealing or robbery. In the year 1955, he joined the army (Barger, 2001), however he was thrown after out fourteen years since it was discovered that he was just sixteen year old and was underage for this profession at that time and had submitted a fake birth certificate. After returning from the army, he found a few tiresome jobs but he did not carry them on for long (Barger, 2001). Barger was on the watch out for an intention in his life, a motive why he lived and he was to find out with time that his intention in life would afterward ...