Han Rong Ma
            EN 102
            2/25/15
            Reading Response #3
            The story is a captivating tale of a relationship between two trouble makers in Harlem neighborhood. As I was reading the story I had a feeling that like I've been into the same situation as he was when trying to fix things with his brother. As the older brother we had to take care of the younger in the family by doing something that they might see it and understand as if we are interfering with their personal life which may lead to problems. I am an only child, but I have a very good friend since kindergarden.
            Sometimes it is hard for me to show him my feeling when it comes to giving him advice I do not really know where to start. But the narrator of the story seems to have real feeling for his blooded brother who is actually younger than him, but his kind of afraid letting his feeling out and also he feels the responsible  for his brother because his mom told him to look after him. In my opinion memories its important in this story because as the author was narrating the story he was remembering things that had happen to him in the past. Flashback, the time in the story throws back and forth between the past and the present. Like when the narrator hears his students, they remind him of his brother at that age. And it was difficult to accept the facts that their father is passed away, no longer exists in the same world as them. Its like he is narrating the story he has a lot of flashbacks. In today's world, people would always try to ignore the bad memories but in this story mostly all the memories that he have were bad memories that affected him.