Blog post on Snitch

            In the novel Snitch, the protagonist named Julia lives in a neighborhood that is filled with gang rivalries. She tries to remain neutral, but when a new boy named Eric moves in nearby and starts going to her school, he joins a gang after Julia and him start going out. Eventually, she feels vulnerable without anyone’s protection besides Eric and her good friend Chuck she joins the Flatbush Junction Crips. Here, she feels a lot more protected and meets new friends after her old ones abandon her. Even though it might seem okay at first Julia’s experience in the gang leads to most of her friends getting arrested, hated by almost the entire gang, and Eric nearly dying from a severe stab. I think the author shows how becoming entangled with the wrong people is not a great idea, even if it looks okay at first.

            To begin, Julia is very optimistic about Eric, which seems okay at first, but then gets herself into a lot of trouble. For example, when Eric joins the FJC (Flatbush junction Crips) it persuades Julia to join because she wants to feel like a family. The gang does stuff illegal things such as smoke marijuana and bets on fights which gets Julia into bad habits. Additionally, Eric gets the whole gang to try and jump Julia after a misunderstanding. This would not happen if she would not have trusted Eric after he lied to her multiple times.

             Lastly, Julia leaves her old friends behind when she joined a gang, which meant they wouldn’t support her if she needed help. When Julia gets into a fight in the locker room, she calls her old friends after it happened. None of her friends came over when Julia asked them too, which was because she left them to join a gang. Julia decides to hang out with her new friends, who later on try and beat her up for setting the gang up for getting caught with drugs by the police. Had she stick with her old friends, she wouldn’t be wanted dead by the entire FJC.

            To conclude, the author shows how getting mixed up with the wrong people can be very hurtful to your life. It can ruin friendships, lives and get you hurt and in trouble with the police.