We Real Cool By Bill Lee Analysis

In both “What It’s Like to be a Gang Member” by Bill Lee and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks gang life is portrayed as dangerous, hard, and useless demonstrating that joining one is not worth it or good.
In “What It’s Like to be a Gang Member” by Bill Lee. Lee quotes “the gang I was in was responsible for the golden dragon massacre.” Because of gang life Lee was part of a mass killing and has to deal with the trauma of being in a event like that also there were lots of weapons and he could have been hurt of even killed there. Lee also had no coping skills when he left the gang and resorted to violence when conflicts arose leading to issues when doing business. The gang Lee was a part of turned him into a man with no essential life skills.So because of this Lee went to therapy for many years to help but only that and hard lessons could help transform his life and he is still trying to recover. He has to go through lots of hardships that the gang created, thus slowing his success. …show more content…
Brooks uses the line “we left school” as the second line in the poem and the line symbolizes that they don’t care about how to do things anyway other than their own, because in school you learn how to cope with things, spell,read and much more so if the poem is formatted like gang life then the first thing they do is throw their life outside of the gang away. The line “we thin gin” means that the life of a gang member is very alcohol linked. Drinking to much can get you drunk and if you are drunk you’re sense of judgment crumbles. This leads you to do stupid or dangerous things like picking fights. This all leads to the final line “we die soon”. The life each gang member leads causes him/her to do dangerous or stupid things that lead more often than not death at a young