Analysis Of Gang Leader Of A Day By Peter Pan

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“All the world is made up of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan. For most people, trust on someone is hard, especially when they are new people in their community because the appearance of the person does not show what he or she has inside. In other words, some people dress and look nice, but in reality they full of hate and danger inside. However, many people give you a peaceful feeling when you meet them at the first time, which make you feel comfortable with them such is in ‘Gang Leader Of A Day” when the main character who is name Sudhir had a research that made him moves to Chicago to begin a new chapter of his life. Sudhir wen to a poor neighborhood in order to do his research on young poor people, but he did not realize how dangerous this place was. After several actions, finally he met a man names J.T, who is one the important characters in this book. As a new person in the neighborhood, J.T did not trust Sudhir from the beginning, but …show more content…
In “Gang Leader Of A Day”, Sudhir took a risk by going to a neighborhood that was full of gangs and drugs addicted. Even though he thoght that going to that dangerous place and introduce himself will finish his research easily, which is not correct because most of people do not trust others in the first meeting. J.T’s and Sudhir’s relationship took a long time to have trust between them. They started to hang out, and after a long time, J.T told Sudhir about his past days. After little trust between them, Sudhir got to know about Robert Taylor. In addition, one day Sudhir went to J.T’s daughter birthday, and during the party, he met J.T’s family. After many years, J.T and Sudhir became very close to each other, which means J.T finally trust Sudhir. Even though they were friends, Sudhir did not understand how much hard J.T work was. Therefore, J.T lets him to be a gang for a day in order to know how his job

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