Friends Come And Go Dont You Know ?

   In the book If I Grow Up by Todd Strasser friends come and go each time, Deshawn the Character shows it perfectly his friends Go away because of violence this book is the life in the projects. Many people call them names but they have no choice but to do what they have to or else they die. People dont think that the people of the project are dumb but its not like that Deshawn is actually smart and his best friend Terrel takes him to the danger life and this is when he sees the world different. Deshawn does everything he could once he joins a gang but his so called friends back stab him talk about him and dont respect and he learns whose his real friend and some of them just got shot down