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A 5 page report on the work Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada. No additional sources cited.
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city where life was incredibly dangerous and frightening. He offers up this look so that later in the book he can present possible solutions to the problem, which has become
a problem that is even more dangerous, obvious, and threatening than it was when he was growing up. The following paper offers a report on his book. Fist Stick
Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada Canadas book is separated into three different sections with many chapters in each section. There is the first part, titled Codes of Conduct, which possesses
chapters one through nine. The second part is A Matter of Time and consists of chapters ten through fourteen. The last section is titled The Best Way We Know How
and possesses chapter fifteen through twenty-five. This first section deals with his early childhood and as the title suggests it talks about how one needed to conduct themselves if
they were to survive in the inner city. It also talks about the code of conduct concerning how people behaved and lived. He begins the chapter with: "I was probably
four when I first became aware of violence. We were living in the Bronx on Cauldwell Avenue. My mother, my three brothers, and I in a small apartment. My father
lived there for some small portion of that early part of my life but he was not a strong presence in our family....He left us" (3).
He then tells the story of how one of his older brothers had his jacket taken in the park by another boy who threatened violence. Canada
illustrates how they did not know violence, did not know how to fight, and were incredibly frightened when their mother demanded they go back and get that jacket, even if
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