Durango Street | Social Sensitivity
Although his subject is a rough, antisocial element of the population, Bonham neither sensationalizes nor romanticizes gang society. Rather, he aims to dramatize the factors that feed such gangs and show that gang violence only promotes more violence. The gang culture of the 1960s that Bonham portrays in his novel seems far less brutal than contemporary gang society, where drug wars dominate most activity. Although he condemns drug use as self-destructive in the novel, Bonham does not specifically focus on either the drug market or on racial tensions, two commonly discussed aspects of...
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