The Crash 5/11/10

When Art started his own business company he did great, but the union still wanted to give him his job back because he was fired for an illegal reason. While he was driving one rainy morning he got into a crash and was worried that he might've killed the kids in front of him. Thankfully he hadn't. This reminds me alot of the first crash I had with my parents.

Fired 5/10/10

Art gets a good deal and buys a dumpster truck. He gets fired for having one because he was supposedly in competition with his boss. He buys some 20-yard dumpsters so he can drop off the trash. I feel happy for Art that he was able to get through his life and start a company.

Gold 5/6/10

While Art worked in the dumpster business he found out that gold was put into circuit boards and that they could be sold to the gold jewelers. He found a whole pile of them one day and only took some because he wasn't sure they were actually gold. It turns out he got hundreds from the small pile he got, but when he returned to pick up the rest they were all gone.

Work 5/5/10

When Art was younger his father took him and his brother Ed to go work in an apricot field to show them what it was like to work in the fields and to work like a man. They did well when they started, but they started to fool around during the afternoon. A man reported on how they did to their father and he said they did well. This reminds of how I go to work with my father every once in a while and I feel like I always make him proud.

Business Man 5/4/10

Art learns that his father is very well known in Los Angeles as a business man. He also finds out that he makes deals quickly and sometimes without even handling the merchandise he sells. This inspires Art to start his own company. I feel really happy that Art has finally gotten his life on track and that he was able to realize his wrongdoings.

Father 5/3/10

In this section Art decides to give up his life of being a delinquent and tells his buddy that he wasn't going to smoke pot anymore. His Father calls him and tells him to meet him at Long Beach because he was only going to be there a couple of days. Art talks about how his father really did love him, but it was his hard personality that made it hard to talk to him.

Sorry 4/30/10

When Art got kicked out of his house he had to go find a job at the American Can Company where his father used to work. Everyday he would step outside with his friends during lunch and he would make slobbish comments to girls. One day he found out that one of the girls he was being a slob to was actually very religious so he went and apologized to her.

The Uncle's Fight 4/29/10

Art went to L.A and didn't tell his parole officer. His grandpa was playing music extremely loud and people called the cops on them 3 times after they finally arrested them. Before they got arrested his uncle's fought each and every cop they had seen and so did Art, but he went and hid because he didn't want to go to jail for any longer period of time.

Richard 4/27/10

When Arthur was younger he would always get into fights with other people, but one day he wanted to fight a certain guy who also wanted to fight him. Both of them acted tough and they never had the opportunity to do it, but when they did they did it at Lover's Lane. In the end Arthur beat up the guy really badly even though they said he was a good fighter.

Out 4/26/10

Arthur finally gets out of the cell they gave him and they tell him he can leave because everybody found out that he hadn't done anything. He dreams about his sister and how when they were younger she yelled for no reason that Art was hitting her when he really wasn't, after that their father would come and hit Arthur because of it.

Back Again 4/23/10

After Art was finally released he came home and started partying a lot. Once he went out with Dennis and his other friend to cruise around when they told him to stop at a couple of phone booths. It turns out they were stealing the money form the phone booths and they got stopped by the cops. Art goes to jail again in the exact same cell he was at young 3 year before.

Free 4/21/10

Finally released from jail, Art goes home and finds out that everybody is doing good and that his mother already has another boyfriend and that they moved houses. Everybody got along with Bob, Art's mom's new boyfriend, and nobody had any trouble with him. One day Bob was a little drunk and was yelling at Art's mother and Art got mad and yelled at him. Eddie walked in and they both beat up Bob because of the way he was acting.

Glue 4/20/10

Since Art is the supply person in his leather shop he got some glue for his friends so they could get high. It turns out that all the guys who got high with him became sick and started throwing up green stuff. This makes me feel kinda bad for Art because he didn't know that was gonna happen from getting loaded.

In Love 4/19/10

When Art had a nanny she would always try to get them in trouble for the stupidest reasons. Once she held the kids in the room because they had supposedly stolen the bread from the kitchen. When their father came back home he was furious at the nanny because it was their bread to it. When she was fired she left a note saying that she had been in love with Art's father. This makes me pretty mad because I feel that when a person is married or if somebody is with someone else nobody else should tell them that they like them or that they're in love with them.

Cheating and Messing Around 4/6/10

When Art was younger him and his father wouldn't get along, but one day his father arrived to visit him at his cell which was very strange for him. When he was younger he found out that his father was cheating on his mother and this really tore him apart so he ran away. This really makes me mad that anybody would do this.

Blow Your Horn 4/5/10

Art would always go to a place called "Blow Your Horn" with his friends and family. On one particular day a lot of kids went and they left Eddie by accident. After this they all counted the kids before and after they left.

The Shower Room 4/1/10

When Art was still in school he decided to ditch his P.E. class with a friend and they just walked around the locker rooms. They found a window and it was a view right into the girls' shower room so they decided to look through. After a while a teacher came through and Art played it off as if he was the innocent one.

Girlfriends 3/31/10

Art tells of how while he was Game Boy he punched Ernie and got into a fight with him. He criticized the way that Ernie fought because he would always talk about how he was a great fighter. There was a lot of tension in between them after that. Art also wrote to a couple of his girlfriends while he was in prison and he talked about his ex and how she got together with somebody she ended up marrying. He talks about one of his ally's sisters and how she looked like a gorrilla with lipstick. I found it pretty funny that he would compare that to one of his friend's sisters.

Ernie 3/30/10

Art talks about how he got hit by a car when he was younger because he didn't want to follow his dad's rules and hold his brother's hand. He talks about a new guy in the prison named Ernie and how he would always make jokes about him and one day he becomes the Game Boy, the person who picks up all the games before everybody goes to bed, and he finds he can make an excuse for fighting Ernie by saying he wouldn't turn in the cards.

Preston 3/29/10

Art describes how Preston looks like and talks about the guards. He gets into a fight with a big black guy and he gets extremely intimitaded. It reminds me a lot of me and my cousins when we were younger and fought a lot.

3/25/10

Art talks about going into the unknown referring to jail, but gives a story about how he went to go by bread from the store around the corner when he was a little kid and how scared he was because it was dark and because he had thought that there were monsters around trying to get him. He arrives at Perkins YA and finds that the ethnic groups there thought that he was white since he was so pale and then the "Locos", or Nahuatl, found that he was actually one of them and they let him in the group

3/24/10

In this part of the story Art tells of how he was in prison and that his lawyer comes in to tell him that the charges were dropped from murder one to assault with the intention of murder. They tell him what to expect at prison and how they shouldn't grab a pack of good cigarettes because that might lead to somebody having sex with him and sodomizing him.

3/22/10

In this section of the book art talks about being in jail and his little brother. When he was in jail he would right letters to his girlfriend and they started writing a lot of sexual things and his girlfriend's mother came back to visit Art telling him to stop. This reminds me a lot about my ex's mother and how she would always look at me in a weird way since she didn't know we were together.