I am now reading Yummy a south side story of a young kid who fell into the life of crime. The book is told in a comic through the voice of Roger a fictional character who wants to know the whole story of who yummy was a why he was killed. Though roger is a fictional character the story is still true with little fictional detail to make it more dramatic.
Its a great book if you want to read something quick and want to learn a little about the history of the Southside of Chicago and want to learn a little of how it was like to live there and the big stories that went down around that area. Roger who is only just 11 years of age never really knew yummy. it is said that they went to the same school and yummy would pick on him and bully him. but those were the day when yummy even came to school. Most days he would just skip school; doing things like stealing, fighting and blasting his gun all over the place. Yummy just being only 11 years of age himself joined a gang called the Black disciple Nation BDN for short which he felt showed him a family of brothers who would protect him.
I kinda sympythise for yummy. Both parents in and out of jail, forced to live with his grandmother who actually showed him love and care but he never apreceated it. He was taken away form his grandmother and sent to live in a special home for boy where there he was picked on. So I can see why he looked towards a gang so they he could feel security in his life.
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