The Brave

The brave by Robert Lipsyte have many things that connect to life today. In the book the main Character is Sonny. Sonny is a Indian who live on the reservation with his great grandfather who pursue him to be a boxer.After his fight against a farm boy which sonny got cheated out the fight he realize that he did not want to box any more. He wanted to go to the city to find his mother who had to give sonny up because she could not take care of him at the time. sonny grandfather Jake told Sonny that he can not go because he could not go live with his mom to he was 18 but Sonny left any way after along bus ride he was greeted by some character one which name was Doll and the other Stick who don't seem to be good but he still hang with them. Getting in to trouble fighting cops put sonny in jail. The head cop let sonny go because he new he was not from there, after getting out of jail sonny got back with Doll took him around to meet some more people. This book so far connect to life because Many people today Leave home in go places they don't no about in get caught up with the wrong people today that get them into trouble