Independent Reading: Changes (Prompt #12, Chapter 7)

Page 71, "...he 'took a bullet' in one arm trying to escape (a matter of particular pride)..."

Lee Stinger chose to include certain events from his time on the streets, while leaving other things to our own conclusions. He always seemed to include other people, and their story, along with his own. He described his encounters with people in detail. He wrote not only what they said, but how they said it. The reader could tell how the person seemed to have felt while speaking. It was interesting to read such descriptions. Stringer would especially go into detail when writing about a person's choices. In the quote above he was describing a person who he saw just for a moment, but was prideful in his attempt to escape the police. I think that Stringer enjoyed writing about other people's choices. It was as if he were studying them, or learning from them. He noticed reasons behind actions, similar to that of his own. Stringer wrote about his life and choices on the streets, but he also included to write about the people he met on the street.