Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Cyber-Assignment on Yummy
Today in class students completed Essay 1: Sentence Punctuation. Some students had not typed their essays; other students were still working on exercises.
We divided the class and reviewed the essay together. If you are a student who did not complete his or her essay. Email it to me after checking it to make sure it is correct (pp. 50-51). Bring a copy of the essay to class if I do not respond with a grade.
In House on Mango, read stories: "Cathy Queen of Cats" & "Our Good Day." Students can respond to one or both. Remind me to backtrack and have students respond to "Boys & Girls." We skipped it by mistake.
The Interrupters Film
I have lots of tickets left for the film at the OM tomorrow the James Moore Theatre (10th & Oak in ). Students can start arriving at 4 p.m. for the reception. Be at the OM by 4:30 so we can go in together and get good seats. Call me if you are running late or cannot find me. I will be at the OM early. I have an interview with Aminah before the film.
If you can't make it, don't forget to watch the film on Feb. 14, 2012 on Frontline World (Channel 9). The link is below. There will be a writing assignment attached to this film.
I will show you a film on Monday entiled Juvies. Visit http://www.juvies.net/index.php
Homework
Homework is the continue in Pidd. Keep doing the exercises. We will have a quiz on "Sentence Punctuation" on Monday. We will also complete the next quiz, "Pronoun Agreement." The Monday-Wednesday sessions are going well. We are entering week 4 next week. I will not continue the two days--I am getting tired. Forgot to eat lunch and I am still here (smile). I will host a drop in writing workshop in March at the same time.
Yummy Homework: Food for Thought
Writing homework is to reflect on Yummy. The reflection should be 250 words min. It can be longer. Bring the response into class on Monday. Post here.
Questions to consider
Why was Greg Neri drawn to the story? (Read the end flap of the cover). What are your initial impressions to the Time article and to Neri's book? Was your response visceral as well? Does Yummy's story make you want to do something too?
How well does the author capture Yummy's character, personality and circumstances that led to his behavior and ultimately to his death?
How does what happened to Yummy impact his community and the larger society?
What do you like the most about the book? Be specific.
How is Yummy's nickname insight into his character. Use examples to support your claim. For example, he liked candy and stuffed toys.
He was a complicated little boy. Why is it sad that his only photo was a mug shot? Talk about the narrator, 11-year old Roger. How is Roger's story a glimpse into the larger question American society needs to face? How could someone know "100 Yummys"? Why is Yummy's grandmother's cry justified to a certain extent: "Why'd y'all let my baby go like that? Why'd y'all get Yummy killed?!" (Neri 86). Why does Roger's father comment on the Time article that the only way his community gets press is when someone kills or is killed (Neri 89)?
Different themes come up in the story: neglect, fear, safety, pain, addiction, crime, approval, faith, regret, forgiveness, home, society, family, judicial system. Which ones struck a cord with you? Talk about why you were affected by certain themes and how the both the author, Greg Neri and the artist, Randy DuBurke, illustrate this?
If you profile Roger, the narrator, how does he escape Yummy's fate? Why does Roger's brother have a change of heart? Why do you think about Roger's parents response to Gary? What do you think about the scene from the classroom?
Why does Neri include scenes from the school where Yummy went to school, the garage where he learned mechanics, the places where he played with friends and foes? Was there a chance that Yummy could have ended up differently?
Is Shavon's death a symbol, just as Yummy's is as well? Did they die by the same sword? How?
Is this story one about choices? Did Yummy have a choice? How many times did he say, "I didn't do anything wrong?" and eventually, "It was an accident"? How does society hold an 11 year old accountable for his deeds? Is there such a thing as redemption? Who decides whom gets to atone?
How do the two boys, brothers, Cragg and Derrick, who kill Yummy, get trapped in the net? They were book smart, but street stupid? Look at their choices.
There are many biblical references. In fact there are scenes where Yummy prays and the community prays, not to mention the name of the gang, Black Disciples. How does this further complicate an already complex, not easy to rationalize or dismiss, story.
Why or how does a city come under siege like Yummy and Roger's? Does it seem as though the community caves in or gives up? Do you know places like this? What happened? Do you have any answers? Are there any answers?
What are your lingering questions?
We divided the class and reviewed the essay together. If you are a student who did not complete his or her essay. Email it to me after checking it to make sure it is correct (pp. 50-51). Bring a copy of the essay to class if I do not respond with a grade.
In House on Mango, read stories: "Cathy Queen of Cats" & "Our Good Day." Students can respond to one or both. Remind me to backtrack and have students respond to "Boys & Girls." We skipped it by mistake.
The Interrupters Film
I have lots of tickets left for the film at the OM tomorrow the James Moore Theatre (10th & Oak in ). Students can start arriving at 4 p.m. for the reception. Be at the OM by 4:30 so we can go in together and get good seats. Call me if you are running late or cannot find me. I will be at the OM early. I have an interview with Aminah before the film.
If you can't make it, don't forget to watch the film on Feb. 14, 2012 on Frontline World (Channel 9). The link is below. There will be a writing assignment attached to this film.
I will show you a film on Monday entiled Juvies. Visit http://www.juvies.net/index.php
Homework
Homework is the continue in Pidd. Keep doing the exercises. We will have a quiz on "Sentence Punctuation" on Monday. We will also complete the next quiz, "Pronoun Agreement." The Monday-Wednesday sessions are going well. We are entering week 4 next week. I will not continue the two days--I am getting tired. Forgot to eat lunch and I am still here (smile). I will host a drop in writing workshop in March at the same time.
Yummy Homework: Food for Thought
Writing homework is to reflect on Yummy. The reflection should be 250 words min. It can be longer. Bring the response into class on Monday. Post here.
Questions to consider
Why was Greg Neri drawn to the story? (Read the end flap of the cover). What are your initial impressions to the Time article and to Neri's book? Was your response visceral as well? Does Yummy's story make you want to do something too?
How well does the author capture Yummy's character, personality and circumstances that led to his behavior and ultimately to his death?
How does what happened to Yummy impact his community and the larger society?
What do you like the most about the book? Be specific.
How is Yummy's nickname insight into his character. Use examples to support your claim. For example, he liked candy and stuffed toys.
He was a complicated little boy. Why is it sad that his only photo was a mug shot? Talk about the narrator, 11-year old Roger. How is Roger's story a glimpse into the larger question American society needs to face? How could someone know "100 Yummys"? Why is Yummy's grandmother's cry justified to a certain extent: "Why'd y'all let my baby go like that? Why'd y'all get Yummy killed?!" (Neri 86). Why does Roger's father comment on the Time article that the only way his community gets press is when someone kills or is killed (Neri 89)?
Different themes come up in the story: neglect, fear, safety, pain, addiction, crime, approval, faith, regret, forgiveness, home, society, family, judicial system. Which ones struck a cord with you? Talk about why you were affected by certain themes and how the both the author, Greg Neri and the artist, Randy DuBurke, illustrate this?
If you profile Roger, the narrator, how does he escape Yummy's fate? Why does Roger's brother have a change of heart? Why do you think about Roger's parents response to Gary? What do you think about the scene from the classroom?
Why does Neri include scenes from the school where Yummy went to school, the garage where he learned mechanics, the places where he played with friends and foes? Was there a chance that Yummy could have ended up differently?
Is Shavon's death a symbol, just as Yummy's is as well? Did they die by the same sword? How?
Is this story one about choices? Did Yummy have a choice? How many times did he say, "I didn't do anything wrong?" and eventually, "It was an accident"? How does society hold an 11 year old accountable for his deeds? Is there such a thing as redemption? Who decides whom gets to atone?
How do the two boys, brothers, Cragg and Derrick, who kill Yummy, get trapped in the net? They were book smart, but street stupid? Look at their choices.
There are many biblical references. In fact there are scenes where Yummy prays and the community prays, not to mention the name of the gang, Black Disciples. How does this further complicate an already complex, not easy to rationalize or dismiss, story.
Why or how does a city come under siege like Yummy and Roger's? Does it seem as though the community caves in or gives up? Do you know places like this? What happened? Do you have any answers? Are there any answers?
What are your lingering questions?
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Myungshin Kim
Professor Sabir
Eng201B
9/February/ 2012
The author, Greg Neri, wrote the book “yummy” because he wanted to pull out the social problem of American society like youth gangs on the street. My first impression of this book was, like a watching a movie, so absorbing for me since the graphic and usage of slangs are realistic. this story gave me a time to think about the neglected youths from dysfunctional families. And I want to help them by organizing clubs, where they can play and learn, for those children.
The author describes Yummy, who gradually increased the criminal records, well by describing him baddest child you could ever imagine but he also explains Yummy’s loneliness too. How his heart, wanting to impress somebody, was abused by adult gang members.
A story like Yummy’s has an impact on a society with the ways of being an example to others. For example, everyone who went to his funeral surely had a feeling that what would be a consequence if they live on the streets doing gang activities. Also, it would give questions to a large society such as “what should we do to stop this happening?”, and” who is responsible for the child’s death?”
What I like the most about the book is the language. In the article, they converted to the words to format of articles except quotations from the interviewer so I couldn’t get into the circumstances of Yummy, but I could feel how rough street was and what would Yummy feel in the street situation. It gave me a more details of the street.
The nickname Yummy reflects his character in a way that he was child so he liked sweets l animals, and bicycles.
It is sad his photo for funeral was a mug shot because that was only picture his relative could get. Is it means he didn’t have a time to take it? No, he didn’t have a family to take picture together and a person to take a picture for him. The boy was neglected! There are words it says “100 Yummys” in the book. This means there are tons of children like Yummy on the streets who could turn into criminal like yummy. Therefore the Roger’s father’s words “this is the only way someone from our neighborhood is ever gonna be on the cover of TIME” (p.89) was not weird to say.
The thing hit me most in themes of the story was fear of the little boy Yummy. Even though he committed heavy crime, he was afraid when polices were chasing him. The boy was asking for help from his grandmother and wanting to get rid of fear from asking a prayer from his neighbors. He was just a child.
The narrator, Roger could escape from the fate of yummy by staying close to his family. The family was one of the reasons why the Roger’s brother could turn back. As described in the last page of the book, Family is the big value we must keep it in our lives by putting all of our efforts.
Yummy had interests in many things so he was looking for a place to belong, but decided being the member of gangs. They showed him love and care. If he had found the, place where can give him love and care, his faith could have changed.
The Shavon and Yummy were died in the same community by the gunshot. The situation where gun fires could hear anytime is a problem.
This story is about how children who born in dysfunctional family around the gangs on the street and didn’t get a chance to have proper education from his society atoned from a media by his murder and died by gunshot of his people.
Even though the street was full of gangs, a place existed which have warm heart and care each other neighbors lives.
This was the first time I realized there is a streets like Yummy’s really exists so I am thanking that I read this book.
My lingering questions after reading the book are why Cragg and Derrick killed Yummy? Weren’t they owed something to the monster in the book? And was Yummy’s mother really sad at the funeral? If she was sad, how could she answer so well to the media about her boy? Wouldn’t you annoyed with interviewer if somebody who you really like is killed?
Professor Sabir
Eng201B
9/February/ 2012
The author, Greg Neri, wrote the book “yummy” because he wanted to pull out the social problem of American society like youth gangs on the street. My first impression of this book was, like a watching a movie, so absorbing for me since the graphic and usage of slangs are realistic. this story gave me a time to think about the neglected youths from dysfunctional families. And I want to help them by organizing clubs, where they can play and learn, for those children.
The author describes Yummy, who gradually increased the criminal records, well by describing him baddest child you could ever imagine but he also explains Yummy’s loneliness too. How his heart, wanting to impress somebody, was abused by adult gang members.
A story like Yummy’s has an impact on a society with the ways of being an example to others. For example, everyone who went to his funeral surely had a feeling that what would be a consequence if they live on the streets doing gang activities. Also, it would give questions to a large society such as “what should we do to stop this happening?”, and” who is responsible for the child’s death?”
What I like the most about the book is the language. In the article, they converted to the words to format of articles except quotations from the interviewer so I couldn’t get into the circumstances of Yummy, but I could feel how rough street was and what would Yummy feel in the street situation. It gave me a more details of the street.
The nickname Yummy reflects his character in a way that he was child so he liked sweets l animals, and bicycles.
It is sad his photo for funeral was a mug shot because that was only picture his relative could get. Is it means he didn’t have a time to take it? No, he didn’t have a family to take picture together and a person to take a picture for him. The boy was neglected! There are words it says “100 Yummys” in the book. This means there are tons of children like Yummy on the streets who could turn into criminal like yummy. Therefore the Roger’s father’s words “this is the only way someone from our neighborhood is ever gonna be on the cover of TIME” (p.89) was not weird to say.
The thing hit me most in themes of the story was fear of the little boy Yummy. Even though he committed heavy crime, he was afraid when polices were chasing him. The boy was asking for help from his grandmother and wanting to get rid of fear from asking a prayer from his neighbors. He was just a child.
The narrator, Roger could escape from the fate of yummy by staying close to his family. The family was one of the reasons why the Roger’s brother could turn back. As described in the last page of the book, Family is the big value we must keep it in our lives by putting all of our efforts.
Yummy had interests in many things so he was looking for a place to belong, but decided being the member of gangs. They showed him love and care. If he had found the, place where can give him love and care, his faith could have changed.
The Shavon and Yummy were died in the same community by the gunshot. The situation where gun fires could hear anytime is a problem.
This story is about how children who born in dysfunctional family around the gangs on the street and didn’t get a chance to have proper education from his society atoned from a media by his murder and died by gunshot of his people.
Even though the street was full of gangs, a place existed which have warm heart and care each other neighbors lives.
This was the first time I realized there is a streets like Yummy’s really exists so I am thanking that I read this book.
My lingering questions after reading the book are why Cragg and Derrick killed Yummy? Weren’t they owed something to the monster in the book? And was Yummy’s mother really sad at the funeral? If she was sad, how could she answer so well to the media about her boy? Wouldn’t you annoyed with interviewer if somebody who you really like is killed?
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Keno Mapp II
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1:00-3:00
10 February 2012
Reflection
In the short comic based story Yummy The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri illustrated by Randy DuBurke there are many question the story well indirectly ask you, and also leave you asking yourself when you get to the suspenseful ending of this eye opening book. The author G. Neri also explains why he was so drawn to this story, as it touched close to home for him. The book paints a vivid picture of how these incidents changed the community in which it happened.
This book is about a young man named Robert “Yummy” Sandifer as he lives his short but powerful life growing up in the gritty streets of Roseland Chicago. The book is narrated by what you could call his “friend”, another little kid how grow up around Yummy and also went to the same school as him. The story goes back and forth with Yummys character from being just a kid having fun eating sweet’s and loving his teddy bear to a mini gangster stealing car and trying to shoot people for fun.
A few of the questions that are indirectly asked of you in this illustrated story are; do you think if you were in his shoes growing up you would have ended up as he did, or even did the way he grow up have anything to do with him ending up the way he did. The question that kept running through my head as I read more and more of this book was, is this kid just looking for a place to fit in and someone to love him. On a personal not it reminded me of my youth and that fork in the road that all young people have to deal with, I found myself thinking that I could have easily gone down that road that Yummy did.
So I guess Mr G. Neri and I have a lot in common when it comes to what interest us about this book. We both were in similar neighborhoods and dealing with similar environments though we were in different roles in those environments we both still fell that thing that engulfed a young Yummy.
Professor Sabir
English 201A 1:00-3:00
10 February 2012
Reflection
In the short comic based story Yummy The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri illustrated by Randy DuBurke there are many question the story well indirectly ask you, and also leave you asking yourself when you get to the suspenseful ending of this eye opening book. The author G. Neri also explains why he was so drawn to this story, as it touched close to home for him. The book paints a vivid picture of how these incidents changed the community in which it happened.
This book is about a young man named Robert “Yummy” Sandifer as he lives his short but powerful life growing up in the gritty streets of Roseland Chicago. The book is narrated by what you could call his “friend”, another little kid how grow up around Yummy and also went to the same school as him. The story goes back and forth with Yummys character from being just a kid having fun eating sweet’s and loving his teddy bear to a mini gangster stealing car and trying to shoot people for fun.
A few of the questions that are indirectly asked of you in this illustrated story are; do you think if you were in his shoes growing up you would have ended up as he did, or even did the way he grow up have anything to do with him ending up the way he did. The question that kept running through my head as I read more and more of this book was, is this kid just looking for a place to fit in and someone to love him. On a personal not it reminded me of my youth and that fork in the road that all young people have to deal with, I found myself thinking that I could have easily gone down that road that Yummy did.
So I guess Mr G. Neri and I have a lot in common when it comes to what interest us about this book. We both were in similar neighborhoods and dealing with similar environments though we were in different roles in those environments we both still fell that thing that engulfed a young Yummy.
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Jennifer Calderon
Professor Sabir
English 201 B
12 February 2012
Greg Nery was drawn to Robert Sandifer a 11 year old boy better know as Yummy because he felt that he could relate to this child’s sad short life. This book is a very emotional and tragic story. The things that Yummy had to go through and the experiences he had so young are shocking. Yummy’s story makes me want to be more involved with the youth, and volunteer in centers where children like Yummy are in hopes of giving them hope for a better life.
Robert Sandifer was called Yummy because he loved cookies and snickers. Greg Nery captures Yummy in great detail as the book includes things that are included in the Times article. The author tells in great detail Yummy life from the people that surrounded him to the last tragic events where a 14 year old was killed, and to Roberts own murder.
The life of Yummy is a sad story that ultimately makes a huge impact in his community. Robert Sandifer story appeared in the Times magazine some people were bothered by this as they said that this was the only way someone from their community would make such headlines.
Yummy was a member of the Black Disciples gang it is believed he was following orders when he opened fire wounded a boy and killed 14 year old Shauvon Dean. Yummy was on the run during the last 3 days of his life. Yummy was tricked by 2 honor roll brothers when they acted like they were going to help him but instead Cragg Hardaway shot and killed yummy he was only 11 years old when he was killed. On the day of his funeral the only picture Yummy’s family had of him was one of his mug shot. It is sad that Yummy had lived that tragic life, but as a society we need to be more alert when cases like these are rising, and offer those poor children hope for a better life.
Professor Sabir
English 201 B
12 February 2012
Greg Nery was drawn to Robert Sandifer a 11 year old boy better know as Yummy because he felt that he could relate to this child’s sad short life. This book is a very emotional and tragic story. The things that Yummy had to go through and the experiences he had so young are shocking. Yummy’s story makes me want to be more involved with the youth, and volunteer in centers where children like Yummy are in hopes of giving them hope for a better life.
Robert Sandifer was called Yummy because he loved cookies and snickers. Greg Nery captures Yummy in great detail as the book includes things that are included in the Times article. The author tells in great detail Yummy life from the people that surrounded him to the last tragic events where a 14 year old was killed, and to Roberts own murder.
The life of Yummy is a sad story that ultimately makes a huge impact in his community. Robert Sandifer story appeared in the Times magazine some people were bothered by this as they said that this was the only way someone from their community would make such headlines.
Yummy was a member of the Black Disciples gang it is believed he was following orders when he opened fire wounded a boy and killed 14 year old Shauvon Dean. Yummy was on the run during the last 3 days of his life. Yummy was tricked by 2 honor roll brothers when they acted like they were going to help him but instead Cragg Hardaway shot and killed yummy he was only 11 years old when he was killed. On the day of his funeral the only picture Yummy’s family had of him was one of his mug shot. It is sad that Yummy had lived that tragic life, but as a society we need to be more alert when cases like these are rising, and offer those poor children hope for a better life.
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Viola Merino
Wanda Sabir
English 201A
11 February 2012
My Reflection on Yummy:
Greg Neri was inspired to write this book when he was teaching in South Central Los Angeles. He had students that had come from dysfunctional families, and students that belonged to gangs (Neri’s note). I think this book may have been his way of showing these children that the choices they make, even at their early age, would effect their lives. He knew his student and/or other youth might be able to relate to Roger (the narrator) or another character in the book and perhaps, they would learn something from it. Creating Roger enabled Neri to tell Yummy’s story through the eyes of an adolescent. I also think turning the book into a graphic novel definitely helped his young readers stay engaged. Randy Duburke did a tremendous job when it came to illustrating all of the facial expressions that helped the reader interpret how that character was feeling in the moment.
The book also points out the negative effects neglect can have on children, and how it affects our society as a whole. It establishes a need and leaves us all wanting to lend a helping hand. Some of my initial thoughts while reading Yummy’s story were, “Poor kid; he was never taught right from wrong. How can anyone expect someone to know something they were never taught? His gang affiliates were his teachers, and he was a good student.” His story shows why program such as “The Y,” and “Big Brother Big Sister” are major assets to our society.
Some of my lingering questions are: Which laws, and to what degree were they changed following these events? Did changing the law and/or laws create any sort of positive outcome? Was there a spike in crime within the surrounding cities of Southside Chicago after the projects were torn down? If so, how high? How were those communities affected?
Wanda Sabir
English 201A
11 February 2012
My Reflection on Yummy:
Greg Neri was inspired to write this book when he was teaching in South Central Los Angeles. He had students that had come from dysfunctional families, and students that belonged to gangs (Neri’s note). I think this book may have been his way of showing these children that the choices they make, even at their early age, would effect their lives. He knew his student and/or other youth might be able to relate to Roger (the narrator) or another character in the book and perhaps, they would learn something from it. Creating Roger enabled Neri to tell Yummy’s story through the eyes of an adolescent. I also think turning the book into a graphic novel definitely helped his young readers stay engaged. Randy Duburke did a tremendous job when it came to illustrating all of the facial expressions that helped the reader interpret how that character was feeling in the moment.
The book also points out the negative effects neglect can have on children, and how it affects our society as a whole. It establishes a need and leaves us all wanting to lend a helping hand. Some of my initial thoughts while reading Yummy’s story were, “Poor kid; he was never taught right from wrong. How can anyone expect someone to know something they were never taught? His gang affiliates were his teachers, and he was a good student.” His story shows why program such as “The Y,” and “Big Brother Big Sister” are major assets to our society.
Some of my lingering questions are: Which laws, and to what degree were they changed following these events? Did changing the law and/or laws create any sort of positive outcome? Was there a spike in crime within the surrounding cities of Southside Chicago after the projects were torn down? If so, how high? How were those communities affected?
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Fidel Medina
Professor Sabir
English 201B
In the graphic novel Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri it depicts the struggle that families have when parents neglect their kids because of money issues, drugs, violence, and how kids get into gang violence trying to find a place where they fell like they “be long.” My impression about the book and article was like if I was reading a crime movie about true gangsters, and it made me realize how coward is the system that we live in that child neglect is tolerated until something really big happens, and how the answer is to blame instead of help.
Yummy impacted his community and society because nobody thought how a child can be such a criminal in such a short age, and how gangs abuse problematic kids to make their dirty work. What I really liked about the book was how connected the drawings were with the story, and how the story was connected to the article. In the funeral there was only one photo of yummy which was a mug shot which made it sad because it shows that the family didn’t even pay attention to taking pictures of him like when he was growing up, his first day at school or events that happen in a kid’s life.
The brothers Cragg and Derrick didn’t just kill yummy but they trapped themselves in prison. Even though they were really smart in school they failed to realize that the gang was just using them to get rid of yummy; in that event tree kids were lost because of gang violence. It’s very important for a kid to live in a good environment, and to have an organized family. In the end yummy just wanted to be loved and not feel like a burden to his family.
Professor Sabir
English 201B
In the graphic novel Yummy: the Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri it depicts the struggle that families have when parents neglect their kids because of money issues, drugs, violence, and how kids get into gang violence trying to find a place where they fell like they “be long.” My impression about the book and article was like if I was reading a crime movie about true gangsters, and it made me realize how coward is the system that we live in that child neglect is tolerated until something really big happens, and how the answer is to blame instead of help.
Yummy impacted his community and society because nobody thought how a child can be such a criminal in such a short age, and how gangs abuse problematic kids to make their dirty work. What I really liked about the book was how connected the drawings were with the story, and how the story was connected to the article. In the funeral there was only one photo of yummy which was a mug shot which made it sad because it shows that the family didn’t even pay attention to taking pictures of him like when he was growing up, his first day at school or events that happen in a kid’s life.
The brothers Cragg and Derrick didn’t just kill yummy but they trapped themselves in prison. Even though they were really smart in school they failed to realize that the gang was just using them to get rid of yummy; in that event tree kids were lost because of gang violence. It’s very important for a kid to live in a good environment, and to have an organized family. In the end yummy just wanted to be loved and not feel like a burden to his family.
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Tesfaye Kekeba
Professor Sabir
English 201B
13 Febrary, 2012
Greg Neri wrote this book to search for social problem that is happening in today's society. This book really teaches great thing especially about poster children. What came to my mind as soon as I read this book was about homeless and street people. Sometimes we ignore people for they are homeless with out understanding their problem. But what is best is approaching the people and searching for the solution for their problems.
Yummy was a short boy who was born in chicago city. After sometime, he became a poster child for gang violance. An environmental factor is the most infuluencial factor in our everyday life. Yummy was spending most of his time with gangesters. He mother was also prisoned for a long years for different kinds of reasons. Yummy was grown in such situations. When our friends are doing good things, we also wish and try to do the same thing. On the other hand, when our friends do illegal things, we also want to apply the same thing. Yummy's friends was gangesters and his mother was was prisoned several times. So' these things have the power to take yummy out of his mind and push him to do unethical and illegal things.
Even though Yummy was a little boy, he killed hhis neighbor's gaughter called Shavon. Shavon's mother was used to take them together to the church. For that reason, nobody could believe that Yummy killed Shavon. Finally, he himself was killed in the same way like Shavon.
There are a lot of things I liked in this text book. especially, the way the narrotor narroted about Yummy by supporting each words and sentences with different picuters. One sentence explains only one singlesingle idae but one single picuter has the power to talk more than thousands of words.
Yummy's prayer was another thing I liked very much. Even though he killed her, the words he used when he was praying for her soul was unique.
No matter who he or she is, approaching and helping street people is the main point I got from this message.
Professor Sabir
English 201B
13 Febrary, 2012
Greg Neri wrote this book to search for social problem that is happening in today's society. This book really teaches great thing especially about poster children. What came to my mind as soon as I read this book was about homeless and street people. Sometimes we ignore people for they are homeless with out understanding their problem. But what is best is approaching the people and searching for the solution for their problems.
Yummy was a short boy who was born in chicago city. After sometime, he became a poster child for gang violance. An environmental factor is the most infuluencial factor in our everyday life. Yummy was spending most of his time with gangesters. He mother was also prisoned for a long years for different kinds of reasons. Yummy was grown in such situations. When our friends are doing good things, we also wish and try to do the same thing. On the other hand, when our friends do illegal things, we also want to apply the same thing. Yummy's friends was gangesters and his mother was was prisoned several times. So' these things have the power to take yummy out of his mind and push him to do unethical and illegal things.
Even though Yummy was a little boy, he killed hhis neighbor's gaughter called Shavon. Shavon's mother was used to take them together to the church. For that reason, nobody could believe that Yummy killed Shavon. Finally, he himself was killed in the same way like Shavon.
There are a lot of things I liked in this text book. especially, the way the narrotor narroted about Yummy by supporting each words and sentences with different picuters. One sentence explains only one singlesingle idae but one single picuter has the power to talk more than thousands of words.
Yummy's prayer was another thing I liked very much. Even though he killed her, the words he used when he was praying for her soul was unique.
No matter who he or she is, approaching and helping street people is the main point I got from this message.
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Rohan Maharjan
Wanda Sabir
English 201AB
10 February 2012
Yummy thought
Greg Neri was drawn to the story because when he was teaching in South Central Los Angeles; some of these students came from dysfunctional homes, their parents were in jail, and some family members had been in the gangs of war and got killed. He wanted to point out the social problems happening in the American Society about the youth gang developing day by day on the street and getting killed at early years. My initial impressions to the Time article and to Neri’s book was that I like the way he made this book by graphing it and we the readers can see what is going on the story at the certain time and how it would have been happened. Also, we can hear the conversation about people to people, what kind of languages are they using, and how they look like in real. By looking at Yummy’s story, I want to help these kids from not becoming gangs and for that I have teach them lesson about life. What is life and what is the value of it. I will give them more knowledge about it and develop organization. I will also tell the parents to look after their kids back and forth so that they don’t commit any crime. I will try to eliminate all kinds of weapons which will harmful to society and create enjoyable environment around the people. The authors capture Yummy’s character by showing his childhood time and how he developed his criminal record. He was born to a dysfunctional family. He was lonely because he had no family who would take care of him. He lived with his grandmother and his grandmother had a lot of children to look after His parents exaggerated him the most because if his parents didn’t commit crime then they would look after him and show him right path to walk on. Yummy didn’t get any guidance from anybody and he started to hang on streets. They were all nice and showed him love. He thought they are good people but they turned out to be gangs. He had no choice rather than joining them because they are the one who showed love to him. He started to rob, steal and he was already creating problem in the society. Due to those things, he already had a bad image and people didn’t like him that much. Even though people would say something to him and he doesn’t care about them.
Wanda Sabir
English 201AB
10 February 2012
Yummy thought
Greg Neri was drawn to the story because when he was teaching in South Central Los Angeles; some of these students came from dysfunctional homes, their parents were in jail, and some family members had been in the gangs of war and got killed. He wanted to point out the social problems happening in the American Society about the youth gang developing day by day on the street and getting killed at early years. My initial impressions to the Time article and to Neri’s book was that I like the way he made this book by graphing it and we the readers can see what is going on the story at the certain time and how it would have been happened. Also, we can hear the conversation about people to people, what kind of languages are they using, and how they look like in real. By looking at Yummy’s story, I want to help these kids from not becoming gangs and for that I have teach them lesson about life. What is life and what is the value of it. I will give them more knowledge about it and develop organization. I will also tell the parents to look after their kids back and forth so that they don’t commit any crime. I will try to eliminate all kinds of weapons which will harmful to society and create enjoyable environment around the people. The authors capture Yummy’s character by showing his childhood time and how he developed his criminal record. He was born to a dysfunctional family. He was lonely because he had no family who would take care of him. He lived with his grandmother and his grandmother had a lot of children to look after His parents exaggerated him the most because if his parents didn’t commit crime then they would look after him and show him right path to walk on. Yummy didn’t get any guidance from anybody and he started to hang on streets. They were all nice and showed him love. He thought they are good people but they turned out to be gangs. He had no choice rather than joining them because they are the one who showed love to him. He started to rob, steal and he was already creating problem in the society. Due to those things, he already had a bad image and people didn’t like him that much. Even though people would say something to him and he doesn’t care about them.
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Rohan Maharjan
Wanda Sabir
English 201A
13 February 2012
Yummy impacted his community and the larger society because he died at early age. Now, people will have to be aware of their kids and what they are doing so that they don’t get spoil and die at early age. Also, it brings questions to the society about fear and protection for everyone living on the street. Why was he killed and did he deserves to die at this age. What we have to do in order to stop happening these kind of crime in the society. Mostly about the book I liked about portrayed of this young boy named yummy because it gives a lot of message to the people around us and they can think about their life by reading this book. Furthermore, they will be able to protect their life and community around them. They will also able to stop from committing these kinds of crimes in the community. Also, I like the idea he graphed this book so we readers can understand the whole story clearly because picture also helps us to understand story more. Yummy’s nickname insight to his character because beginning from his childhood, he liked sweet things and candy a lot. He is kind of guy who loves candy to eat and that makes him happy. He used these kinds of words like please; thank you and pardon .It shows some people like him because he was so respectful but some people didn’t because the way he behaved them and he used obscene languages to the people. He was a complicated little boy. It is sad that his only photo was a mug shot because that’s only picture they could get from relatives and he didn’t have any family picture because of his neglect. Amercan society needs to face it because they have to deal this everyday in their life. If today yummy got killed, then next day somebody will get killed. People have to take these crime as a seriously; who knows someday their loved ones will get killed like yummy did. Someone could know “100 Yummy”. This means there are lots of children who could turn like Yummy on the streets and get killed one day. Yummy grandmother cry justified to a certain extent because she is blaming to all those people around him. She thinks that they are the one who killed him because of his behavior and the fact they didn’t support him about killing a girl. Roger’s father comment on the time article that the only way his community gets press is someone kills or is killed because he is sick of it the way people are behaving. Also, a person doesn’t care about them unless some kind of crime happens. He thinks that his community is being some kind of joke that people getting killed every day. The themes that struck a cord with me are neglect and crime because there are a lot of crimes still going on right now. I believe it is because of their neglect that these people couldn’t get guidance about the right path to walk on like yummy did in this story. They illustrate this in the book by showing yummy childhood time in the beginning, later he hangout the streets and joined gangs. At last, he gets killed.
Wanda Sabir
English 201A
13 February 2012
Yummy impacted his community and the larger society because he died at early age. Now, people will have to be aware of their kids and what they are doing so that they don’t get spoil and die at early age. Also, it brings questions to the society about fear and protection for everyone living on the street. Why was he killed and did he deserves to die at this age. What we have to do in order to stop happening these kind of crime in the society. Mostly about the book I liked about portrayed of this young boy named yummy because it gives a lot of message to the people around us and they can think about their life by reading this book. Furthermore, they will be able to protect their life and community around them. They will also able to stop from committing these kinds of crimes in the community. Also, I like the idea he graphed this book so we readers can understand the whole story clearly because picture also helps us to understand story more. Yummy’s nickname insight to his character because beginning from his childhood, he liked sweet things and candy a lot. He is kind of guy who loves candy to eat and that makes him happy. He used these kinds of words like please; thank you and pardon .It shows some people like him because he was so respectful but some people didn’t because the way he behaved them and he used obscene languages to the people. He was a complicated little boy. It is sad that his only photo was a mug shot because that’s only picture they could get from relatives and he didn’t have any family picture because of his neglect. Amercan society needs to face it because they have to deal this everyday in their life. If today yummy got killed, then next day somebody will get killed. People have to take these crime as a seriously; who knows someday their loved ones will get killed like yummy did. Someone could know “100 Yummy”. This means there are lots of children who could turn like Yummy on the streets and get killed one day. Yummy grandmother cry justified to a certain extent because she is blaming to all those people around him. She thinks that they are the one who killed him because of his behavior and the fact they didn’t support him about killing a girl. Roger’s father comment on the time article that the only way his community gets press is someone kills or is killed because he is sick of it the way people are behaving. Also, a person doesn’t care about them unless some kind of crime happens. He thinks that his community is being some kind of joke that people getting killed every day. The themes that struck a cord with me are neglect and crime because there are a lot of crimes still going on right now. I believe it is because of their neglect that these people couldn’t get guidance about the right path to walk on like yummy did in this story. They illustrate this in the book by showing yummy childhood time in the beginning, later he hangout the streets and joined gangs. At last, he gets killed.
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Rohan Maharjan
Wanda Sabir
English 201A
13 February 2012
The narrator, Roger escape from the fate of yummy by being close to his family and family are the only reason. Family is the one things that values for most of us, If family is there and then there will be no problem at all because, family are the one who gives guidance about the right path to walk on. Neri includes scenes from the school where Yummy went to school, the garage where he learned mechanics, the places where he played with friends and foes because he wanted to show his background history and we readers could tell what kind of life he had in childhood time. Yes, there might be some chance that could have ended up differently if his parents were with him all the time and giving him right directions. Because, it really matters about the guidance from whom they are getting it and kids will think more about their education rather than becoming gang or committing crime. Even though they are going to commit crimes, they will think more than hundred times because they have guidance from their parents so kids are able to figure out difference between right or wrong. In that way they will back up from committing crime. Shavon and Yummy’s death is a symbol of fear because people have to be careful about losing their kids lives. They both got gunshot in their community. It is because they came from dysfunctional families.
This story is about a young boy named yummy who came from dysfunctional families where he couldn’t get any love from his parents and right guidance. Yummy didn’t have any choice even though he told community he didn’t killed her because people already knew what kind of guy he was and had criminal records. In my opinion, if people of the community believed him that he didn’t killed her then there might be some chance of not getting yummy died. People of the community could support him by giving justice. The two boys, brothers, Cragg and Derrick kill Yummy get trapped in the net because they killed a guy who was very respectful to people and everybody knew because of his name Yummy. There are some scenes Yummy and community prays, not to mention the name of the gang, Black Disciples because they don’t want to create bad image for their community by showing how bad this street so that people will be scared to walk on the street and also fear of Black Disciple that they might create more problems in the society by killing many. In the book, if the community had taken it seriously about their surrounding then they might help these kids from not committing crime. Well, there are a lot of place where a lot of crimes happening everyday. People robbing, steal and getting killed. There are no answers for this because people can’t stop from happening these kinds of crimes because they already know what they are doing and they are happy about it. I think in my opinion, people should stop committing crime and they should understand that they are killing their own brothers life. Some of my questions are that: When will people understand the value of own and somebody’s lives? Why people are not giving that much attention to the crime? Why did Yummy get killed? Why Brother Crag and Derrick did kill him? Why aren’t people raising voice about the issues happening in the community? Was he looking for some love or he wanted to joined gang Black Disciples? For what reason, Black Disciples wanted to get killed Yummy? Why Grandmother didn’t didn’t care that much about Yummy? Why community didn’t didn’t believe him even though he was innocent?
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Wanda Sabir
English 201A
13 February 2012
The narrator, Roger escape from the fate of yummy by being close to his family and family are the only reason. Family is the one things that values for most of us, If family is there and then there will be no problem at all because, family are the one who gives guidance about the right path to walk on. Neri includes scenes from the school where Yummy went to school, the garage where he learned mechanics, the places where he played with friends and foes because he wanted to show his background history and we readers could tell what kind of life he had in childhood time. Yes, there might be some chance that could have ended up differently if his parents were with him all the time and giving him right directions. Because, it really matters about the guidance from whom they are getting it and kids will think more about their education rather than becoming gang or committing crime. Even though they are going to commit crimes, they will think more than hundred times because they have guidance from their parents so kids are able to figure out difference between right or wrong. In that way they will back up from committing crime. Shavon and Yummy’s death is a symbol of fear because people have to be careful about losing their kids lives. They both got gunshot in their community. It is because they came from dysfunctional families.
This story is about a young boy named yummy who came from dysfunctional families where he couldn’t get any love from his parents and right guidance. Yummy didn’t have any choice even though he told community he didn’t killed her because people already knew what kind of guy he was and had criminal records. In my opinion, if people of the community believed him that he didn’t killed her then there might be some chance of not getting yummy died. People of the community could support him by giving justice. The two boys, brothers, Cragg and Derrick kill Yummy get trapped in the net because they killed a guy who was very respectful to people and everybody knew because of his name Yummy. There are some scenes Yummy and community prays, not to mention the name of the gang, Black Disciples because they don’t want to create bad image for their community by showing how bad this street so that people will be scared to walk on the street and also fear of Black Disciple that they might create more problems in the society by killing many. In the book, if the community had taken it seriously about their surrounding then they might help these kids from not committing crime. Well, there are a lot of place where a lot of crimes happening everyday. People robbing, steal and getting killed. There are no answers for this because people can’t stop from happening these kinds of crimes because they already know what they are doing and they are happy about it. I think in my opinion, people should stop committing crime and they should understand that they are killing their own brothers life. Some of my questions are that: When will people understand the value of own and somebody’s lives? Why people are not giving that much attention to the crime? Why did Yummy get killed? Why Brother Crag and Derrick did kill him? Why aren’t people raising voice about the issues happening in the community? Was he looking for some love or he wanted to joined gang Black Disciples? For what reason, Black Disciples wanted to get killed Yummy? Why Grandmother didn’t didn’t care that much about Yummy? Why community didn’t didn’t believe him even though he was innocent?
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