Two completely different stories, they are both set in LA, but the two worlds couldn’t be any more different. Well the settings definitely had a great impact on the narration of the story. ‘Dangerous Days’ was narrated from a person living in the ‘ghetto’, an area where a lot of Mexicans and African people live. There are gangs everywhere, people with shaved heads, others with pants around their knees, high crime rates and the streets are usually ruled by gangsters. In this story our protagonist seems to be tougher (and eye for an eye) than the protagonist in ‘Midnight in Silicon Alley’, he grew up in a neighborhood where if you didn’t push you got push around. That is why when Yippie was killed he didn’t hesitate to go after the killer, he lives in a world where someone doesn’t have to be blood-related to be your brother. Mr. Chen on the other hand is a man who likes to follow the rules, even though Cravitz is a cop he tends to make his own rules. In ‘Midnight in Silicon Alley’ the setting is completely different than ‘Dangerous Days’, here we see life in the suburbs, low crime rate, people dress more professionally to got to work, and ‘slang’ is rarely used among the citizens. Chen is more reserved and doesn’t like conflict, he actually thrives in following the rules and keeping order, that is why he prefers the suburbs. Cravitz would drive himself crazy in the suburbs’, he is the type of man who likes action and thrives on getting things done by any means necessary.
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