Yvonne Chavez was a girl who had harship in life. Yvonne had grew up without a father When Yvonne was little she kept asking her mother who and were was her father and she answer "your father is never comming back". Yvonne father had left her mother when she was pregnant. Another situation yvonne had faced was she was five years was molested. She also faced unhappy experiences in elementary school. She was teased because she was overweight and illigetimate. But in junior high school she was exposed to different things such drugs, parties, sex, and gangs. Yvonne grew up in a neighborhood where gangs are all there is. Where crackheads and gangsters are the only people you have to look up to. Yvonne was also invloved in the gang called the diamond street. She felt as though the gang was a easy solution to all my problems. She wanted to belong to a crowd. She also wanted to be someone others would look up to.even though her drug use and fights with other women would cause her pain she thought the love and respect she recieved from her gang made it worthwhile. Yvonne then met her boyfriend who were also a part of a gang. Her mother had dissapproved him not because he was part of the gang but because he was older than her. He was 19 she was 14. Yvonne then got pregnant when she was 15. Yvonne said being pregnant at such an early age created difficult and shameful experiences. But that was the turning point. It made her look at life and realize what bad shape she was in. She stated that i didnt want my child to see me this way, so she vowed to change . Around the year 1990 her son was born. But as a child herself (16) she was blinded by the fact that life would hold only good things from now on. She then proceded to marry her boyfriend samuel. But was not her choice. But soon her relationship with samuel would continue to deteriorate. Samuel begin to become