Section 11 to 13 in the novel Innercity Girl Like Me demonstrates the vicious uncovering of the negative impact gang life has on the 4 main characters: Gina, G-Child, Jessica, and Violet. The 3 girls, excluding Gina, all begin to realize that gang life is tearing their friendship apart. For every individual in the Diablos clique, the pressure of selling becomes intensified. As their leader Gina becomes older, she starts turning her back on her friends and begins to lose her mind. She behaves in a manner that all her closest friends can recognize her changing. Conflict between the best friends happens when Gina begins to abuse them in their household . Gina became completely comfortable with only caring about money and selling drugs. In contrast,the
