Genre
Nonfiction
Setting and Context
Set in the 1970s and 1980s in New York City
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narration from the life in New York's point of view
Tone and Mood
Humorous, violent and, emotional astonishing
Protagonist and Antagonist
All young Latino Black men who live in New York City
Major Conflict
The major conflict occurs when Pops meets his estranged father, who is a police officer from Connecticut. The two fail to connect because of divergent societal standing. Similarly, a major conflict is evident when there is rampant police brutality against the young teens in the city.
Climax
The climax is evident when the protagonists endure their suffering and make up their minds to fight for their future and better treatment.
Foreshadowing
The meeting between Rob and his estranged father foreshadows police brutality that is later witnessed against the teens in the city.
Understatement
The depiction of the sister's arrival in the "Kids on Colden' as a happy beginning is an understatement. The events turn out to be worse after that because of the increasing rate of police brutality.
Allusions
The police refer to brutality in the larger context. Instead of the police being true law enforcers, they misuse their power by mistreating the Latino American boys in the streets of New York.
Imagery
The flushing lights are mentioned in various stories which depict a sense of sight.
Paradox
The main paradox is that the police are brutal creatures who turn their anger against the young boys of Latino origin in the streets of New York. The reader expects the police to be law enforcers but not racially discriminate against the Latino young boys.
Parallelism
All stories are parallel because they talk of police brutality in one aspect or the other.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Brutality is personified as having the human abilities to distress the young Latino boys in the streets of New York.
