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Plot Summary of Choices Made: The Street Years
"Shocked into a new life with his mother's death, Jamy begins a search for his biological father but gets raped.

Becoming another lost kid, beaten, pimped, and drugged, Jamy grows more introverted by the barrage of abuse until, in defense of others like himself, he finds a dark future as a gang leader, the Street Lord of the 42nd Neighborhood.

Jamy, a teen father, wants off the street for the sake of his son and agrees to become a 'mole' for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (BNDD) in exchange for freedom from prosecution.

Though freedom is at hand, he returns to the street to save the undercover agent he befriended. "

Christine McMahon, Resident Scholar




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Plot
Tone of book? - depressed
Time/era of story - 1960's-1970's
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Age group of kid(s) in story: - high school
Parents/lack of parents problem? - orphan story
Wild kid(s)? - druggie culture (& crime)

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - prostitute
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - artist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - throughout most of the book.
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
United States Yes
The US: - Midwest
City? Yes
City: - dirty, grimy (like New York)

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references - impregnation/reproduction - rape/molest (yeech!)
Unusual Style: - a lot of stream of consciousness
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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