Young lives are being cut short by other young people sometimes even their own neighbors. The poor communities are getting hit harder with more petty violence. All of the small violent acts grow into things like organized violence with gangs focuses around “street pride". In Geoffrey Canada’s Fist Stick Knife Gun: A personal history of violence, he depicts how from an early age violence is instilled into young people through life and media.Through his own personal expiernce Canada is trying to reach everybody he can to inform and try to stop the horrific cycle of violence in America's poor communities and ghettos.
