Yummy
When everything seems to be going against you remember that a airplane takes off against the wind not with it. - Henry Ford. Yummy has been a victim all his life and his past made him into the monster everyone thinks he is.
Yummy experienced a lot growing up which made him the “monster” people think he is. In the book everyone is already convinced yummy is the bad guy and the narrator wants to know why. G, Heri wrote on page 54 & 55 “ Some people say when yummy was away from his gang he was as sweet as jelly,” and “ Sometimes he was more of a kid than a thug”. Theses quotes from the book proves that he constantly put on a front when he was with his gang and running the streets, that mean kid everybody knew wasn 't the real Yummy. A child, a boy can 't be a monster when he hasn 't been taught the right way page 57 “That 's like packing dynamite”. Yummy was set up for failure and when it happened people didn 't even think twice on why it happened. My thought is that if Yummy was in a good neighborhood he would’ve turned out to ne a professional football player or basketball player. Right after the mother of the fallen soul found out who shot her baby girl she said something that G.Heri wanted us to think twice
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American Psychological Association studies found children who are emotionally abused and neglected face similar and sometimes worse mental health problems than kids who have sexually and physically abused. Yummy was neglected , physically abused and mentally abused. I agree with the quote on page 57 “That 's like packing dynamite”. Yummy had no role model or direction, at a very young age yummy was in and out of juvie. Why didn 't anyone help him from going down this dark path just like on pg 57 “so they just stuck him back on the streets didn 't give him therapy or a direction” Sounds to me like he was just another black