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Two Badges: the Lives of Mona Ruiz

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Mona experienced:

  • economic hardship
  • gangs
  • "It was . . . a series of surrenders and lapses that combined to deliver me into the very lifestyle I had been raised to most despise." (48)
  • death
  • "Oso's death was a warning to escape the gang life, so I wondered if [Isela's death] was a sign that the badge was too costly to carry." (275)
  • abusive relationship
  • "The violence that night was a passage, it turned out, the first stone in an avalanche of heartache." (152)
  • discrimination
  • woman, cop, gangster, hispanic
  • "'Is that why you don't smoke dope? You a . . . spy for the [cops]?'" (64)
  • "'I thought you looked like you belonged in the back of the squad car, not the front." (237)
  • drugs
  • marijuana, heroin, PCP
  • "Like every hype, [Little John] traded his life for a needle." (283)

by Mona Ruiz with Geoff Boucher

Logos

Figurative Language

Anecdote

  • "He glared at my unlikely group of vigilantes." (255)

  • "'Am I in trouble? I'm sorry, Mommy . . .'" (264)
  • "A trained dog. That was how she talked to me." (75)

  • "He would rattle off a long list of facts and orders, and then tell me to parrot them back." (232)

Why Turn to Gangs

  • "He told me that one of the reasons he and his friends formed the gang that would eventually become the Orange branch of F-Troop was for protection." (245)

Dreams

  • "I was stunned by the education requirements needed to become a cop and decided that I could never fulfill them." (77)

Time and Evolution of Gangs

  • "Everything seemed to be escalating as the 1980s loomed. Guns . . . now seemed to be everywhere. More drugs meant more money . . . meant more opportunities for flare-ups. . . it felt like everything was about to explode." (60)

Compare Cops and Gangs

  • "The two worlds were not far removed, I had learned often, but the similarities still surprised me." (238)
  • "the PD is . . . a group that bought more pain to the neighborhood than help. . . . 'couldn't you say the same thing about the gangs?'" (215)

Purpose

Context & Audience

  • "I worry that [the message of rap and dance culture today] glamorizes the same wrong paths that nearly sidetracked my entire life." (284)

  • "Prejudice is part of our culture, and to deny it defeats any chance of changing it." (287)

To prevent others from making the same mistakes she did and call others to do the same.

To help create a world without prejudice and discrimination.

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