Street Pharm, written by
Allison van Diepen takes place in inner-city Brooklyn. Tyrone is the main character of Street pharm. Orlando, his father was put in jail for getting caught drug dealing. It's only right that Ty should take up the 'family' business. Right? Well, that's what he did. Ty knows what he needs to do.
His mom dosn't suspect anything in the beginning, but when he started getting kicked out of schools, she knew something was up. Especially when she found out he was hanging with Sonny, one of Orlandos buds.
"Darkman's in town and he's shutting us down" (page 107)
This Darkman guy is trying to take over Ty's customers, and more importantly, his business. Ty isn't going to stand there and let it happen. He's going to do something about it. Two questions, how is he going to do it, and does he succeed?
Ty learns his responsibilities as a teenager. He shouldn't have to worry about what his fathers done, or what his father wants him to do. There's a reason that Orlandos in jail.
Friends, enemies, everyones got them. Ty tries to stay away from friends outside of the business, and that means girls too. He dosn't want to get distracted and he dosn't want to put them in danger.
Ty is very smart and has a lot of common sense. I like this quote from him, "I DIDN'T OWN NO GUN. Having a gun wasn't gonna change my chances of getting shot. You don't hear about people saving themselves from drive-bys by shooting back. If you shoot back and you lucky enough to survive the drive-by, you still got the cops charging your..(butt)" (page 15).
Throughout this story, Ty goes through many emotions about life, and he wants to find out if his life is what he wants it to be. Does he want to deal the rest of his life, and possibly get thrown in jail right alongside his father, or does he want to make that one step forward on a new path?
Ty figures out what he needs to do, whether that be following his dads footsteps, or making his own.
When I started reading liberty and tyranny I have to say it was pretty amazing. I have had to listen to talk radio with my dad for a lot of my life but I never really knew why he did and now that I'm coming to voting age this book helps to put a lot of things into perspective especially why he always listened to it. it talks about a lot of things from the near communistic power of f.d.r. to current issues plaguing this country. Mark really impressed me when i read this book because it wasn't a biast vote republican book. he just said that the people he supports could come from any party but right the best way in is through the republican party. he talks a lot about conservative values, the attacks on freedom, the rise of the welfare state, the parental disconnect with their children education, the loss of morality, the rise of the global cooling then global warming scandal, the hundreds billions of dollars in debt and tens trillions in unfunded obligations, the great communicator ronald reagan, the liberal takeover of the media, the liberal takeover of schools and union groups, the breakdown of national security through reduction of our nuclear arms allowance for communist dictators to acquire them, the breakdown of the border, backroom deals, bills passed that the american people have made known they dont want, an activist supreme court acting outside there abilities and the list goes on and on. The real purpose of this book is a warning to the people of america that if we keep going down the road were going america is no longer going to be the land of the free. We are now on a fast track to socialism and if we become socialist there will be nowehere free left on the planet, we are the last great bastion of freedom, and freedom is never more than one generation from ectintion. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
