Essay: The Last Days Of A Southside Shorty Yummy

Yummy Essay More people are killed in Chicago than U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. There are also 100,000 gang members in Chicago, and only 12,000 cops. Chicago homicides are also up 24.7% since last year. Some people have to join gangs to protect their families from the gang, and some people just want to be in a gang because they think that it’s cool or fun, like Yummy in the story, Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri. Yummy can be described in the story as a victim due to the way he died, and the way that he was raised. I believe that Yummy is a victim. I believe that Yummy is a victim because as it states on pages 21 to 24, “His daddy was in prison for drugs. And I heard that his mama had been arrested 41 times for drugs and prostitution … Social Services sent him to live with his Granny. She had a whole mess of grandkids living there. Sometimes up to 20 of ‘em … There were so many kids, Yummy could disappear for days and nobody’d notice.”. These …show more content…
The Black Disciples provided that for him, and he felt like he belonged there. People can say that he was a murderer and not a victim. I would agree to a point, but he was also trying to impress the gang’s leader. When he saw the the Black Disciples enemy around their turf, he went to grab the gun and shoot them down as a warning to the enemies that they are not allowed there. Yummy is a young kid that has never held a real gun before, and he also hasn’t learned how to shoot well yet. He might have also been nervous, and when he went to shoot, something terrible happened, he shot Shavon, a childhood friend on accident. If the other rivals were shot, instead of Shavon, most likely none of this would’ve