Cholos And Surfers Summary

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The article of Cholos and surfers is about the author Jack Lopez childhood growing up in East Los Angeles on the ghetto streets of Vermont avenue near its sandy beaches. where his love for surfing beings and his understanding of what society think of him and what he truly desires.
Growing on the ghettos streets of east LA, as a child Jack Lopez, want to be nothing but a surfer. he thought he could do this by wearing the traditional surfing clothing of "baggy shorts, larger penny's town craft shirts" or by owning a Surfer Quarterly magazine. even with his looks change. he was looked at as abnormal by his neighborhood. That it was strange for a boy who was born in a low classes family of his race to want to be a surfer that most boys his age

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