Friday, March 4, 2011

unexpected deaths

A conflict in the book Dirty South by Phillip Thomas Duck, was and unexpected death. A five year old boy was outside of his grandmother house playing, when a group of boys decided to do a drive by.  They end up shooting the five year old, and he died. This was sad because he didn’t deserve what his innocents and life taking away. You never know what tomorrow brings , and its not promised to you.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

back up plans

In the book dirty south by Phillip Thomas Duck, a character name Fiasco, is a rapper, and he sold platinum’s and mad millions. Now he’s on tour and he’s not making any money. Clubs didn’t want him to preform, and the ones that did wanted him to perform didn’t want to pay him. I feel that this is a problem, because everybody need a backup plan , in case one of the plans fail .

Teenage Love Affairs

In the book Dirty South, is about girl who is going off to college with her best friend, and she is facing boyfriend problems. When her relationship starts to go downhill, both of the partners begin to lose a lot of feelings for each other. Then this causes one partner to cheat on the other. Cheating can cause a lot of distress and it can also lead you to a disturbed, depressed, and hurtful relationship. My advice to teens and adults is : if your relationship not going good, or well talk it out. If talking it out don’t help then its best to end the relationship before both partners get their feelings hurt.

Friday, February 18, 2011

Did You Think ?

The conflict I think is also an important conflict is misused information. Sometimes people get back inaccurate information which can lead to something else. In this book Dirty South by Phillip Thomas Duck the main character Kenya and lark , which is her best friend , they both think that Kenya’s exboyfriend Donnell moved on and don’t still have feelings for her anymore. So lark and Kenya decides to follow him and see where he’s going, he made a quick stop and brought out flowers, they thought the flowers were for another girl. But when he pulls up to a hospital and calls Kenya and told her that he see her. I believe that Kenya and lark could have dealt with this situation differently. Even though the situation didn’t get out of hand and nothing happened bad ,
 still it could have turned out different.
So  my advice is say what you have to say before
your actions speak louder than your words and you
 do something you’re going to regret.

Friday, February 11, 2011

It almost happend !

The most important conflict I chose was rape, in the story, Dirty South by Phillip Thomas Duck , the main character Kenya was placed in a bad situation where she was about to get raped by this man, named Alphonzo, he was known for raping younger girls. Kenya was very lucky when her brother Eric and some other people got there before the situation got any worse. This is a big issue in the urban youth because many girls get there innocents taking away from them. The tragedy caused Kenya to have many nightmares. She couldn’t get through it alone. That’s why her boyfriend helped her get through them. My advice to teens is don’t let someone put you in a situation like that,
 and don’t allow yourself to
be put in that situation.
This is just like Maya Angeloui.
She was an African American,
who faced the same situation.