On The Side Walk Bleeding, By Evan Hunter

On the side walk bleeding by Evan Hunter is a story of a boy’s mistake of joining a gang. A boy called Andy that is 16 years old joined a gang called the royals. There are many risks in beings in this gang, including “The Guardians”. The reason for his death. Andy was stabbed. He was stabbed because he was a part of this gang.
This short story gives a deep and sad response to me because of how young this boy who just died was. “The jacket was a stupid meaningless thing that was robbing him of his life”. In what we read throughout the story a 16 year old boy’s life is ruined by one single mistake, joining a gang. This is a similar connection to reality, as all over the world under age kids are getting into trouble, for example when teenagers make bad choices by getting drunk. This could lead them getting into dangerous situations.
This is very relative to this day because all around the world people are very violent. For example Child abuse, statistics show that every 10 seconds someone around the world commits child abuse and every day at least 1 child dies because of abuse. To me, just the thought of this is disgusting, so that is why the violence in this short story had a big effect on me. Child abuse is not the only type of violence happing around the world every day; Murder is a very common act of violence. A lot of murder is cause by arguments and fights. I know this because some males resolve their problems by physical contact. This happens because males always try to prove that their stronger than the average male, so therefore fighting is a good solution. I think proving that you’re stronger than everyone else’s is very unnecessary because everyone is different in their own way. As a male this really affected me because in the future this could happen to me, my friends, or even my