The Basketball Diaries: The Classic about Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets

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Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.Here, memories of drag queens playing doctor with young boys are presented, as are images of hapless New York cops and pounds of drugs; weed, speed, smack and more begin to make every-page appearances in the latter half of the summer of 1965. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. This phase of Carroll's life, brimming with regrettable actions and risky behaviors, presents the stark and sobering truth about the struggles of an addict. Carroll has a conversation with a friend and notes that a junkie on a high often curls up like a fetus.

So we made it for a change because sometimes we’re not so lucky with that mutt and it will tear the leg of your pants off in one chomp, perhaps a good part of your ass with it. Then we recovered enough to hear shouts coming from the bottom deck and wiping off our eyes we realized that we had zeroed in over the head of some dude. Finally, as the largest American city and one which contained a significant number of landmarks and economic centers, New York—especially Manhattan—was thought to be a prime target for a nuclear warhead during the Cold War, a fear that Carroll expresses on several occasions. What methods of enforcement have been used in each time period to slow or stop the sale and use of drugs?

Man, she really let fly some nights, yelling so that everyone in the building almost could hear her. Having written the novel as a teen, Carroll provides a sense of maturity found amongst the juvenile sense of humor and adolescent angst littered throughout the text. He was born post-World War II in 1949 and spent his youth in the midst of the Cold War and Vietnam War in the 1960s; all three wars impacted his psyche and worldview. So he statued himself in some insane position and the mutt came up to him, sort of sniffed at him for a second or two, and just as old Sam felt relieved, it bit him accordingly right square in the bum-bum. I kept it up for about ten minutes, but by then I was getting too dizzy to handle it and I had to fling down the rag and make it to the side rail, sick as possible.

As a result, the diarist may jump around and discuss many topics, instead of developing one major plot, as other kinds of storytellers do.Carroll's mother receives a notice from his principal about Carroll's bad grades and behavior problem.

He critiques everything from the Catholic school he attends to the cops arresting dealers and profiting from the drugs they put back into the market. Well, we made it to the cut and poked around the bushes at the base to find our hidden swim suits and jocks.It is available on DVD from Ryko Distribution and contains many special features, including interviews with several cast members and an antidrug trailer. Carroll’s diary chronicles his teenage years of drug addiction in New York City during the mid-1960s. Like this house where I got to sometimes tear out a room and make it another size or shape so the rest make sense… or no sense at all.