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Jughead is introduced as the president of the first gang Ali joins, although there is no writing that goes into great detailed about who or how he is as a person. We see that Ali did not benefit greatly from Jughead because in the end we understand that

1. Although it starts off with a cliché "I will never forget the day" hook, Tariq Ali's experience is one out of the ordinary. Ali grabs your attention by using a life event unique to everyday life and builds it up by adding more detail to what happened to him on that day. As he vaguely describes the state he was in during this memory, his statement on how he believed that he "was going to die," is enough to further pull the reader into the story. Ali knows that with this, he will leave us, the readers itching to read on in order to find out what went on and how he managed to survive to tell his story.

2. As the short story is named "Mi Abuelita, My Grandma" we go into the story already assuming that his grandmother will be of importance throughout the whole thing. However when she is actually introduced in the story along with his auntie, Ali immediately dives into talking about his grandmother, about how much she had hurt as she was comforting him in the hospital. It is clear to us that she cares about him as her heart aches to just the thought of him in pain, but immediately after, we learn that this is merely a small fraction of what she has already been through in her years of living. Ali briefly writes about how his mother and father had met, the failed relationship of drugs and abuse that lead to his grandmother taking him in as her own. We learn more about her life, the hardships her children bring her from being involved in gangs and how they had influenced Ali himself into joining a gang by living with him. We come to realize how much his grandmother has given up and had to put up with; her children may do wrong but mothers love brings her to care more about them than ever, especially with all the danger they are put in. As the reader, with this knowledge we are meant to share the pain Ali's grandmother went through yet we are also supposed to feel some sort of gratification towards her.


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