Durango Street
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Publicado: 19 de diciembre de 2012
Durango Street
Overview
Durango Street Summary
In Durango Street the main character is Rufus Henry. He is just getting out of a youth work camp because he got caught stealing cars, and wascharged with Grand Theft Auto. When he leaves he is given a probation officer and is told to stay out of trouble and away from gangs.
Rufus feels that becasuse he is black and fresh out of jail he hasno real chance. His first day out he gets into a fight with a gang called the gassers because his sister tells on them to the police. The only option, to join the rival gang the Moors.
Soon afterbeing beaten into the gang Rufus fights, and beats the head Moor, Bantu, and becomes the leader. Because of constant fighting with the Gassers, a social worker named Alex Robbins is asigned to theMoors, with the intent to break up the fighting gang.
Of course Rufus and his Moors think they have Alex pegged out, but they don't realize the good he is actually trying to do. Alex finds out aboutRufus' hero being Big Ernie Brown. Little does he know that Rufus' mother had lied and told Rufus that Ernie Brown was his father. So sure enough Rufus winds up getting humiliated in front of all hisfriends and enemies.
With Alex's help Rufus regains face. Him and the Moors but on a graduation dance and even make a profit on it. At the end Rufus starts to see that life can be made into whateveryou want it to be. His feelings of being trapped because of his background and race start to leave and a positive aditude is left behind.
<Frank Bonham>
Frank Bonham(1914~1988)was an authorof Westerns and young adult novels. Bonham wrote 48 novels, as well as TV scripts. He was a UCLA graduate.
Bonham was known for his works for young adults written in the 1960s, with tough, realisticurban settings. Several of his works have been published posthumously, many of which were drawn from his pulp magazine stories, originally published between 1941 and 1952. Durango Street was an ALA...
Overview
Durango Street Summary
In Durango Street the main character is Rufus Henry. He is just getting out of a youth work camp because he got caught stealing cars, and wascharged with Grand Theft Auto. When he leaves he is given a probation officer and is told to stay out of trouble and away from gangs.
Rufus feels that becasuse he is black and fresh out of jail he hasno real chance. His first day out he gets into a fight with a gang called the gassers because his sister tells on them to the police. The only option, to join the rival gang the Moors.
Soon afterbeing beaten into the gang Rufus fights, and beats the head Moor, Bantu, and becomes the leader. Because of constant fighting with the Gassers, a social worker named Alex Robbins is asigned to theMoors, with the intent to break up the fighting gang.
Of course Rufus and his Moors think they have Alex pegged out, but they don't realize the good he is actually trying to do. Alex finds out aboutRufus' hero being Big Ernie Brown. Little does he know that Rufus' mother had lied and told Rufus that Ernie Brown was his father. So sure enough Rufus winds up getting humiliated in front of all hisfriends and enemies.
With Alex's help Rufus regains face. Him and the Moors but on a graduation dance and even make a profit on it. At the end Rufus starts to see that life can be made into whateveryou want it to be. His feelings of being trapped because of his background and race start to leave and a positive aditude is left behind.
<Frank Bonham>
Frank Bonham(1914~1988)was an authorof Westerns and young adult novels. Bonham wrote 48 novels, as well as TV scripts. He was a UCLA graduate.
Bonham was known for his works for young adults written in the 1960s, with tough, realisticurban settings. Several of his works have been published posthumously, many of which were drawn from his pulp magazine stories, originally published between 1941 and 1952. Durango Street was an ALA...
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