nnrsatn Essays - We Beat The Street, The Three Doctors, 9, Quakers

Title: We Beat the Streets (2005) Author: Dr. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt Genre: Action Pages: 194 Reviewer: Terrence Johnson Hook/lead: We are real people. We started out as kids in the toughest neighborhoods of Newark, New Jersey, and today we are doctors. We had to fight drugs and crime and hopelessness. We had to overcome obstacles like poverty and apathy and violence in our community. Individually we would not have succeeded, but together, we are able to make it through high school, college, and medical school. Background Info: Three friends work together fighting for one another. Born and raised together they faced police, violent enemies, gangbangers, and other delinquents. All ended up being high paid and well known doctors. Short plot summary: George is 16 years old when he says his own mother blown to bits by a drive by. He lives in New Jersey. George also was born with HIV. With the help of his two friends he has made it from a harsh life style to being a doctor. That is just one story of the three friends; who were like brothers. Quote from story: ?All I need is my friends! Everyone else has played or manipulated me. And I?m sick of it!? That was his remark before he attempted suicide; and also before his friends came to save him from suicide. My opinion: I liked the story because it shows that no matter what you go through, anything is possible with friends. Friends will have your back no matter what.