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His gang name

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Andy was dying and he wanted to keep his identity for himself because the purple Royals jacket represented the gang not him and who'm he was.

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By Robert Trocchia, Jonathan Chammas and Marc Richardson. Adapted from the short story, the dramatic film captures the last moments in the life of a young gang member. Winner of the 2010 Loyola Media Idol: Term 2 Winner of the 2010 Loyola Media Production Award Hope you enjoy/ed.

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It was dark about midnight it was raining

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-Purple jacket
-teenager
-gang member

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" He wore a bright purple jacket, and the lettering across the back of the jacket read THE ROYALS."

"He was sixteen years old"

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"…He had fallen to the sidewalk, clutching his stomach, trying to stop the flow of blood."

" But he squirmed and fought and twisted until one arm was free and then the other. He rolled away from the jacket and lay quite still, breathing heavily, listening to the sound of his breathing and the sounds of the rain and thinking: Rain is sweet, I'm Andy."

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The couple didn’t want to help Andy because he was a royal. The police call him a royal instead of calling him Andy  he just judge him by the leather jacket.

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"Andy lay and thought: Laura, Laura. Are you dancing:?"

"Andy finally realize that he was going to die."

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" Someday he would marry Laura. Someday he would marry her, and they would have a lot of kids, and then they would get out of the neighborhood."

"…If he died, he was Andy. He was not a Royal. He was simply Andy, and he was dead. And he wondered suddenly if the Guardians who had ambushed him and knifed him had ever once realized he was Andy? Had they known that he was Andy or had they simply known that he was Royal wearing a purple silk jacket? Had they stabbed him, Andy, or had they only stabbed the jacket and the title and what good was the title if you were dying?"

"He felt weak and very tired. He felt alone, and wet and feverish and chilled…He was filled with sadness that his life would be over at sixteen ."

"If he had not been wearing the jacket, he what was robbing him of his life."ouldn't have been stabbed. The knife had not been plunged in hatred of Andy. The knife hated only the purple jacket. The jacket was as stupid meaningless thing t