In this blog i will be anaylzing and summarizing the novel "A few Kind Words and A Loaded Gun" by "Razor" Smith, pages 185-262. In this section Razor gets off from his three year sentence and gets back on the gang scene. When he first gets out he thinks to himself, " I was a bundle of spite and visciousness clothed in a teenage boy, a war, looking for a place to declare itself" (smith 208). By saying this Smith tells the readers that he is angry with the system but is willing to take out his anger on anyone who crosses him or looks at him incorrectly. We can look back at his beginnings and start to realize that he is no longer a man of morality but a man of anger and rage. This change came from the constant abuse of the prison management and the lack of encouraging role models in his life. Smith then goes to his part of south london and organizes a gang called the Balham wildkatz. He makes plans to take his group to the top and fight the "skin heads". While doing this his crew goes around doing random smash + grabs, and assorted crimes to get money for drugs, alchohal, and style. This is also a serious change in Smith's character from before. He commits crimes not only to stay alive but to have fun and to make life easier. From our viewpoint we can tell that smith is slipping ethically and probably will continue to slip. Later in this section he has a run in with a rival gang member and promises to have a straight fight, he commences the fight and it is fairly even until some of Smith's friends join in and start to beat on his adversary. When Smith finaly pulls them off he gets verbal abuse from the adversary. This abuse causes Smith to run up and kick the other guy in the face with his steel toed boots. We can clearly see that Smith's anger dominants his actions and controls who he is. Finally we see a faint glimmer of the old smith when he is watching another "straight" fight between to guys. When he sees another guy try to intervene with a weapon smith attacks the guy for the sake of the two fighters.
In the second half of this section smith is captured by his age old enemy, the police. He gets out shortly and is seeing a girl named allison. When he finds out that own of his best friends was having a go at her while he was in jail he gets infuriated and starts a fight. Both of them fight for 15 minutes and then get to tired to even throw another punch. To put an end to the battle a bouncer jumped in and declared the fight a draw. We can see the pride and honor that Smith still retains from before.After this gang violence escalates and Smith is nicked for GBH and wielding a dangerous weapon, the razor blade. He is now in an adult jail getting his first real taste of adult jail.
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This biography should give the American judicial system a new perspective on prison. They figure that prison will make them feel sorry for what they did, or at least ensure they'll never commit a crime again. This biography contradicts it entirely. He's committing more crimes than before. He even organized a gang to help him ruin the community and hurt others. It's an interesting perspective on prison treatment and the judicial system.
This book just gets better every single time. However, this time your analysis seems to contradict mine. When you say that his morals are beginning to slip, I would say that they are starting to build in a different way from others. When he wants to have a clean fight with his opponent and his friends interfere, he pulls them away because like a man of his words, he wanted A CLEANED FIGHT. By stopping his friends, we still see that he is a man of his words.
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