Ganglife

In the middle of the book we began to see Luis Rodriguez as a real gang member. His gang being involved in rapes, robberies, and murders however, he seems to not do everything his gang does. This is also where he begins to see his childhood friends and well as his new gang brothers slowly die one by one. Everyone around him seems to end up dead, shot, or incarcerated.

This is also the part of the book where he begins to meet his loves from 15 year old Roberta who ended up being a prostitute in order to pay  her sister rent to Viviana a girl from the rival gang who ends up leaving him when her brothers see her having sex with Luis on the porch. The girls in the gang life seem to end up dead or pregnant at a young age, some with a father and some without. Roberta's friend Shoshi ends up pregnant by Luis' friend Chirarron and is later left with the child alone after Chicharron is sent to prison.