In this book an occurring issue was being pressured. seventeen year old Tony, was often pressured into fighting for his moms defense against her abusive boyfriend or selling drugs with a gang.
Tony often had a hard time controlling his emotions and he would outlash at people using verbal violence or physical fighting. Tony would get in trouble a lot with the princiopal of his school but in his school the principal, who Tony called Big O, would threaten tony saying that he could not do his favorite activit, Vo-Tec, once when Big O saw ton'ys reoccuring problem he said that tony should try fighting. Tony joined a gym with his friend Rob and other friends, Amir, and they went far. Rob was able to fight against other counties to bring his fighting status up, and even thhough Tony looked scrawny and didn't look strong, he was very powerful and strong when he was fighting the older more mature boys.
The book is told from Tony's perspective so even though other characters said it looked like Tony wasn't worried when he was getting prepared to fight the bigger and more experienced guys, on the inside Tony was freaking out and was contradicting himself.
Tony's best friend was Rob and they always followed each other. And I think that there friendship was really important in the story because it helped show Tony's feelings even more.
One thing that I found interesting was the fact that the book started with a saying and ended with the saying. In the beginning, it wasn't as significant because you really didn't know about all the characters and all there background life yet but at the end of the story it was really a significant saying because you knew about the characters and knew more about Tony was thinking. Since it is told from his perspective.
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