The article that I read was about the violence and how it has become an unavoidable part of life for children who want to just go to school and learn or even a place to live and lay their heads. Well, I’m one of those teenagers that live in the Englewood area and are faced with walking down the street of violence. Every ten seconds I’m watching my back to make sure a fight hasn’t broken out and the gangs haven’t begun to shoot. It’s not a day that goes by that I’m not worried about my family or me. They have to walk down the same path as me. I’m worrying that I will be the next person on their list to have my life taken away before it even starts. Not only do I have family, but I have friends, best friends that live around me and face the same things I have to face. So far there have been 24 public school kids killed from a gun shot and one from getting beaten. So for every time a teen, a little girl or a little boy has been shot in my neighborhood, I wonder if that could’ve been me, my little sister, one of my cousins, one of my classmates or even just someone off the block that I know. The killings that are going on in the Chicago area, especially in my area, are having a big effect on all of us including parents. You might wonder what effect that is, it’s the effect of fear.





Teonna Chism
1st period