Bronx Masquerade Perspectives- Take One

            The book, Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grime is about several teenagers that live in the bad part of Bronx. They talk about their struggles in living in the bad part. Every Friday they hold an Open Mike Friday where they each present a poem that they made. All of these poems each represent the persons personality or what they have gone through in life. The main character Tyrone, after each supporting character shares something about themselves in the book, Tyrone has an opinion on what they say.

            Two characters that I found similar in this book were Lupe and Gloria. I found these two characters alike because one of them is a teen mom which is Gloria, and the other one which wants to be a mom which is Lupe. I think that Gloria will end up telling Lupe that a baby isn't the only person that is going to lover her, she is soon going to find out that other people care about her. I think she won't have a baby after the book is over.

           I think Devon and Tyrone are two different people. Devon actually wants to be successful in life where Tyrone doesn't really care if he is successful or not. Tyrone said the only reason he is going to school now is because is best friend Wesley is encouraging him to go to school, he said without him he wouldn't show up at school at all. Devon actually seems like he wants to learn something and actually do something in life instead of being a bum. Devon is really good at basketball and Tyrone is really good at rapping. He is like Kendrick Lamar, he actually sings about life experiences instead of irrelevant stuff like drugs, alcohol etc.