A great piece of realistic fiction: perhaps a bit too real for younger readers. Noire holds no punches with this one. The fireworks explode from page one. The title-caption “On these streets, no one can protect you.” Though it is somewhat predictable, I think Noire and 50 Cent www.nobodysmiling.com did a good job of twisting the main prediction of the story.
Baby Brother is about six brothers who made a promise to their dying mother that they would make something of themselves, stay together and most importantly take care of Baby Brother. Even though the eldest of the seven Davis boys did everything and anything under the sun when he was younger, and introduced his younger brothers to the fast life. He went away to prison and is now trying to walk the straight and narrow without preaching to his brothers about the very thing her introduced them to.
Baby Brother has a very bright future ahead of him, but suddenly it turns bleak. The one thing the Davis brothers could not deal with was anybody standing in the way of Baby Brother and Standford University. www.standford.edu He was to be the shinning star of the family. Revenge for the turmoil caused by the death and destruction brought two families together to fight for vengeance.
I think this book is attracting the younger readers, because they are drawn in by the illustrations on the-cover and the co-author 50 cent. Overall, it’s a great story, but the sheer reality is that it’s true. The problem is that it really happens. And there are too many books depicting what’s wrong, and too few about positive resolutions and resources to help combat the problems.
4 comments:
Very well written from the first few sentences Dwilette. I'm reminded of a movie starring Mark Walberg and others about adopted brothers who come together to avenge their adopted mother's death (the name escapes me at the moment).
Interesting that this is a true story. I agree that there is too much focus on what is wrong and too little focus on how to fix it. 50 cent (I hate that name) needs to send a different message to the impressionable boys and girls who will read this novel because of his attachment too it.
I'm disappointed by the fact that it was even written and published with associations to him. He doesn't come off as a positive role model. He may be like others who say they don't 'want to be role models', but the reality is that they are! You look around today and see their influences in the way children talk, walk, and dress.
Sadly disappointing, maddening, and frustrating!
I'm a little confused you say in the end paragraph that "the sheer reality is that it's true" Do you mean that this is a true story? Or are you saying that something like this often happens in reality?
this sounds sort of like that movie with mark wahlberg...four brothers i think
That's it Amanda! That's the movie I was thinking of.
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