Harlem looked like a place where there was only bad influence for young people and teenagers. Going into drugs and dropping school were the common in this age. It sounded sad, if we could say, the environment was either playing on the street or getting drugs. For Baldwin it was working with young students and finding similarities between his brother and his students.
Explanation:
Life in the Bronx has always been difficult. People have poor living conditions and children are not supervised because they have working mothers or a single parent at home. The wander around with friends, who are in the same situation, and are not much help. They get into drugs easily and it is very hard for them to continue their studies. Jazz was like a hope, something with which one got deeply involved and could express one´s feelings. In this case Jazz saved Baldwin´s brother from getting lost in the world of drugs.
I was always good at writing. You should start your introduction of with something that will grab the readers attention. For example, you could say "Tim and I(the two boys) have always been afraid of clowns, so why did we decide to go to the circus? Good question-it all started 3 weeks prior to us going." That's not a really good one, but i hope you get the idea!
