In the short story “The Somebody” by Danny Santiago, teenager Chato de Shamrock describes his history of being in a gang and his decision to quit school to become a “writer”. He makes several decisions without fully thinking them through, like the one to quit school to vandalise the buildings in his area by writing his name on all of them. In spite of his tendency to make rash decisions, Chato manages to remain content with them throughout the story. Chato’s rash decisions and his ability to remain somewhat content with them demonstrates the way in which he chooses to live his life. He lives without regrets and maintains his content mindset by focusing on fantasies of what he could do or what could happen next in certain situations. Throughout
