Please dont steal my air jordans reading responce

Diego Ogando      please don’t take my jordans reading response 12/1/14

In the poem, “please don’t take my jordans,” I can really see what this world could really be like because things like this happen everyday. You need to look cool, you need to have people notice you and i think that this poem shows just how far someone will go to look “cool” or to get some people to notice them. the kid in this book would literally kill to have a new pair of jordans.

This poem starts off on a boy bragging about his new jordans. He says it goes well with his leather adidas cap and his fake gucci backpack. But then he says that things things are not free and they cost money. But he doesn’t have a job. So it turns out he stole the shoes. He stole the the adidas cap. He stole the fake gucci backpack. And it leads me to think that this isn’t very peculiar. Things like this happen everyday. There are just some people that would something like this on a normal basis and from what I have read it sounds like he does it on a normal basis too. He then says it is the end of the school year and he needs new gear. But he mentions that the malls security is getting more controlled and harder to steal things so that day, he packs his gun and gets ready. Just hearing this, I know what just is going to happen. He is going to kill some kid just to get new J’s. And he did. He skipped school that day and took the train to a basketball court with his, “crew.” His friends said that he wasn’t going to do it but i think that just pushed him to do it even more. He looked for an easy target. Someone who wouldn’t fight back. And once he found the kid he started to wait until the kid left. And once he left he trailed the kid to where it was a safe place to get him. He tried to take them but the kid resisted and he shot him and took them away. But something that caught me was when he was taking the sneakers the kid said, “please don’t take my air jordans away.” But he was dying. He wanted the sneakers so badly he didn’t care about his own life. He was bleeding out on the street not giving a care in the world.

This confuses me because why would he want the sneakers so badly. If i was him i would be worrying about my life. How could i get out of this alive. And what makes me uneasy is that the boy just runs away with the j’s. He didn’t even think twice. He just takes them. If i was him i would leave them there for him. It’s really sad to just shoot someone and run off with their shoes and not even think twice about it. That kid is now probably dead because you just wanted new shoes that you don’t have money for. And at the end of all this he come into school the next day like nothing happened and he says, “i don’t care cuz now… I need a new jacket to wear.” so He is going to do the same thing to just a get a new jacket which is not good at all.

and the end of this it makes me realize just how bad someone can be when it comes to how they look or how they get attention. It’s really sad that someone would actually kill to just get new clothes and not even think twice about it. I think it’s just wrong.