Life And Death Book Report

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The story Life and Death by Candace Jaye and John Malcolm tells two stories about teens having to make hard life decisions. It tells the story about a businessman name Wes Moore, who meets a prisoner with the same name as him and a girl name Maria Reyes, who joins a gang and has to make the right decisions if she want to get out.This novel is a nonfiction, because their telling about their life and the struggle they went through in order to become successful in life. The theme of the book was dealing with family influence, poverty and pressure. The genre of this novel is an autobiography and biography, because it's based on real events and telling about two people life stories. This novel tells about the important decisions teens have to make throughout their lives.

The main idea of this novel is to persuade readers to make a difference in their life and make the right decisions. In the beginning, they started making wrong decisions when their families were becoming poor. They
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The first Wes Moore was a businessman and the other one was a drug dealer. They were both going through a hard time in their life and was trying to help take care of their families. They had to go in the right path in order to take care of them. One Wes was in the military, while the other one got arrested for murder. They had to make the right decisions in life, but the other Wes decide the wrong decisions. The first Wes Moore became a businessman and the other one got the death penalty for murder of an officer.

Bird in a cage is a story about a girl who lives in Los Angeles named Maria Reyes. She joins a gang her father and brothers all were in. she gets arrested, goes to juvie, has a remedial English teacher that changes her life, and is a witness in a murder trial. It was a major effect, because it tells about the bad choices she made and it makes you think about what could happen if you made the same

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