Gang Leader for a Day

Chapter 1
This was a good introduction to the book, it helped me get into the story and want to read further. He had a way of pulling me into the story with how he got into the whole predicament on the stairs.

Chapter 2
I was surprised that J.T would allow him to come back and continue his study. It was interesting to see how Sudhir went about conducting his research, how he told J.T it was a biography about him but he didn't even know what he was going to write. Also the end of chapter 2 was crazy since J.T beat up C-Note and Sudhir saw everything.

Chapter 3
This chapter had a lot of information in it, from the lady screaming at the store owner to Sudhir finding another person to talk to about the gang activity in Aultry. How J.T reacted to Sudhir finding someone else to talk to was actually kind of surprising, I thought he wouldn't care but he ended up making Sudhir not go to a certain meeting just cause he was there with Aultry and not him.

Chapter 4
This was one of the most interesting chapters, Sudhir got to lead the gang for a day. He didn't get to do everything of course but he did get to make a few decisions. I was surprised to see how much went into being a gang leader and getting instructions to people.

Chapter 5
This chapter was kind of surprising, it was weird to see what Ms. Bailey does and what kind of power she has over some people. It's almost like she is her own version of J.T, she is kind of like the leader of the tenants and collects what she has to when she has to.

Chapter 6
Sudhir continued to surprise me with how naive he could be, he interview a bunch of people about how much money they made and how they went about making it and then he told Ms. Bailey and J.T how much they made. People said that this was on the side so it should have been obvious that they didn't let them know everything about their financial situations.

Chapter 7
I was shocked to see that this was the first chapter where someone actually got shot, hearing the stories of gangs and stuff I assumed that someone would have gotten shot sooner. At the end I really wanted to know how the big meeting he was supposed to go to was going to go.

Chapter 8
Chapter 8 was just a closing chapter to me, it was one of the more boring chapters. It was basically just telling the reader what everyone ended up doing.

Book Reaction
Overall I thought this was a very good read, a lot better than what we have read so far in this class. It was interesting and I actually wanted to read the whole book to see what happend to the author. He presented his work very well and really pulled the reader into the story and helped the reader empathize with some of the characters. What I mean is that even though some of these people were in gangs I still could see where they were coming from and why they did the things that they did. I liked the way the author presented his findings, he created a story that the reader would be drawn into then along the way he would tell you his findings throughout the entire book and I just thought that it was a pretty good way to do that.

I did think that he wasn't entirely truthful in his book, some of the things that he did were just way too naive for someone to do. It was like he played off on that and just ran with it, like when he was surprised that J.T beat up C-Note, J.T was a leader of a gang in Chicago there was bound to be some violence and he really should have just expected it rather than be shocked by it. Other than that the book in my opinion was one of the best books we have read in this class so far and I probably would have read it outside of class had I picked it up and started reading it randomly.