It's hard to be strong when others around are not.
Turn your cheek. Yes, we have all heard the saying but who can actually do that when the chips are down. I thought of this saying a lot when I read this book as fifteen-year old James tries to do that many times but it’s ole’ so hard. James lives with his mother and his stepfather, I guess you call it living if you sleep on the sofa and you leave early so you can avoid a beating (verbally and mentally) from your stepfather. The mother, yes she has checked out years ago. His brother Louis, James still looks up to and I thought that was a good thing until Louis’s runner had problems and Louis get James in the business. James was leading a good life, well…. I say as good of a life as James could live, going to school trying to stay out of trouble but someone trouble just seemed to find him. I cheered James on throughout the whole book as I thought he had potential, he knew right from wrong, he wanted to do right. When the police cruiser turned on their red-blue lights, I cringed. I wanted James to run faster. Outrun the cops James! Run! James would learn his lesson, he was scared now, he seen his life flash before his eyes. Go James! But when they slapped the cuffs on him, I feared for him. What would happen to him, would he become of “them”? It’s about standing up for yourself and knowing yourself.
Anxious to see what Sea Wolf is all about now since this book was mentioned a lot in here.
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