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"Nicky Cruz is a violent, out-of-control young boy who is sent to New York to live with his older brother in 1950's Brooklyn. A Puerto Rican immigrant with no respect for authority or any knowledge of the English language, Nicky drops out of school within weeks of arriving in New York and is driven out of his brothers' home as well.
Nicky finds himself desperate with no food or a place to live, and he nervously commits his first robbery to survive. On the streets with no friends or family to turn too, Nicky eventually joins the infamous 'Mau Mau' street gang, who become his 'family'. Nicky would spend several years in the gang, being its President during the gangs' most violent and often recorded period of criminal activity in the mid to late 1950's.
In 1958, a Pennsylvania preacher named David Wilkerson meets with the Mau Mau's and is nearly killed by Nicky, who decides to attend one of Wilkersons' arena meetings so that the gang can rob the offering. Instead, Wilkerson moves Cruz to attempt to abandon his violent, drug and sex filled gang existence and change his life into something positive. "
drury5@rogers.com, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
job/profession:
- criminal (general)
Ethnic/Relig. of subject (inside)
- Hispanic/Spanish
Gender/Class story?
- immigrant story
Job/profession/poverty story
Yes
If this is a culture clash:
- minority culture living in majority area
Ethnic/regional/gender
Yes
ethnic of society (outside)
- American (northeast)
Period of greatest activity?
- 1950+
Big/small town?
- Big city
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- religious figure
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Biography of famous person?
Yes
Ethnicity
- Hispanic/Latinic
Nationality
- American (!)
How sensitive is this person?
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 10 (a tremendous amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Century:
- 1960's-1970's
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
Book makes you feel?
- concerned
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- touching of anatomy
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- race
- selfishness
- justice system
- religion
Unusual Style:
- a lot of flashback and forwards
- a lot of stream of consciousness
Writer's slant towards subject:
- neutral
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of nearly entire life
How much dialogue in bio?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
A LOT of info about personal vices?
Yes
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life?
- 0-25% of book
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 0-25% of book
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