Brent Staples' A Brother's Murder

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severity of these problems. His brother, Blake, leads a life molded by this
street life. His official cause of death was murder. However, at the young age
of twenty-two years old, they should have noted his death as a casualty of war.
He played a part in the war of gangs and guns. If he did not live in the inner
streets of Roanoke, Va., he would probably be alive today. In most other parts
of the country, you can have an argument with one of your best friends and not
get killed over it. Blake was shot six time s by a good friend over an argument
about a former girlfriend.
Brent Staples grew up in the same type of atmosphere as his little
brother Blake. As Staples explains in paragraph four of "A Brother's Murder," he
chose a different lifestyle. He disagreed with the childish attitude of the
death-ridden people on his street. He chose a path of going to college and
leading a successful career. He was lucky enough and smart enough to leave
those streets. "Upwardly mobile" ...

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