Driven By Donald Driver Essay

As a young child growing up in the ghetto, selling drugs, stealing cars, running for your life from another gang trying to shoot you, and getting into all sorts of mischief. Would you think you would be arrested, end up in prison? Or even possibly die in the crossfire between two gangs? What would you think is going to happen to you in the future? In this incredible story Driven by Donald Driver it tells you a story of exactly this. Of his childhood growing up with little to nothing to live on day-by-day and trying to just survive out on the streets. It goes through what he had to go through to survive and just make it to see another day. The risks he took, the family struggles, and the constant threat of others. In the book Driven by Donald Driver, Donald takes you through a brief overview of his life growing up. The struggles he went through, the crimes, and his life in sports going through school. When Donald was growing up, he was always moving from home to home because of his family situations. His mom was a single mother who had three children. Growing up in a bad part of town, Donald did the only thing he could do to survive, and that was to join the drug trade. He was selling …show more content…
This is my favorite book I have read in all of the books I've read so far. This book is not a very slow paced book. With him growing up doing these drug deals, stealing cars, and getting into mischief. It is a very well written book, it's very interesting and keeps your attention unlike other books that I’ve read. It's so inspiring considering he was homeless, in gangs, stealing cars, and dealing drugs. To how he can become what he became known as today. Overall I would have to give this book a 9/10. Mainly because of the inspiring story it told, and how in depth it tells you about the situations he had to fight through just to get where he got. In the end it tells a very well thought out story of how Donald Driver went from, homeless to