The Gun

I chose the book The Gun written by Paul Langan. I have read another book in his series. His series are about African American life. The series is called The Bluford Series. A few book titles are The Fallen, The Guy, and The Bully. This book could help you with real life situations. It can help you to stand up for yourself. I think the main message the author is trying to get across is that you can stand up for yourself also that you’re not the only one with feelings it try’s to show you that everyone wants to be treated well. I thought this book was good because of the lesson in the end of the book. It also shows how people can change for the good an even people who use violence first have a soft side and can be nice.

Tryray liked to solve his problems with violence. Tryray would steel money from other students, beat them, and mentally bully them. Tryray liked the feeling of being powerful. He had the reputation of being a bully. Darrel Mercer was the new kid Tryray started to bully. Darrel didn’t take the bulling and actually fought back and stood up for him. Tryray never had someone fight back, he though the only way to fight back with someone that fought back with him was to use a gun.

This book is actually very realistic because Tryray bought the gun and people do sell guns to minors in real life. Some people feel that they can only fight back with a weapon. In this book that’s how Tryray fells, he thinks that he needs to kill Darrel because Darrel proved to Tryray that he’s not the only one that can fight. I would recommend reading this book because it has a great life lesson in throughout the book. The book could really happen in real life also if you’re going through bulling you can learn something though this. The writing is intense, the writer, writes so well that you would think it was a true story. The writing is very descriptive and it turns into a movie in your head

Book Review by Nora C.