Fist Stick Knife Gun Film Analysis

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In the novel Fist Stick Knife Gun a young boy named Geoffrey Canada grew up in the South Bronx on Union avenue. While the movie Cooley High follows the story of two high school students Preach and Cochise surviving in the gritty streets of chicago of 1964 chicago. Both the Novel and movie have many similarities and differences but tell the same story of a young child trying to survive and strive in a negative environment.
Both the novel Fist Stick Knife Gun and the movie Cooley High tell the story of young males growing up in the bad neighborhood of there city. They have many similarities such as they take place around the same time period. Also the protagonist in both the novel and movie are not only ambitious, determined but also confident

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