Bronxwood

I just started this new book and so far it has been so good. Its about this kid named Tyrell and he lives in the Bronx. His dad just got out of jail, his brother lives with foster parents and he has to pay his moms bills by djing at parties. He lives in a small awful apartment with a group of drug dealers but he can not get involved.
   The biggest problem in the book right now is going on between Tyrell and the drug dealers that live in his house. One of them just got beat up really badly and has to wIt a while to recover. He also got robbed so his boss is pissed because he lost a lot of money. Now his boss wants Tyrell to help out cause that was his best friend and Tyrell says yes because he could use the extra money and cause he is getting pressured into doing it. To me this is an example of peer pressure. A huge social issue that goes on all the time. Then as he is doing some of the work for the boss HE gets robbed and a gun is put to his head and they take all of his money. He thinks that the boss set him up as a way to get revenge for his friend losing all his money. I think the fact that he would do that is really messed up cause Tyrell was trying to help but he just got back stabbed in the end anyway. That's a reason why you shouldn't give in to peer pressure because a lot of the times it ends up for the worse. Peer pressure  goes on in a lot of different ways all the time.
     Another social action i see going on in this book is child support. Since Tyrell's father was sent to jail they put his little brother Troy into child care. Now that the Father is out they are trying as hard as they can to get him back home with his entire family. Even though Tyrell doesn't even live with his parents at the moment he still wants Troy to be with his family and for him to be happy so badly.