Eddie runs away from Angel for two very good reasons. For one, he simply doesn't trust him. Ever since they were kids together Angel has proven to be a bully and a thief. He even stole the crucifix which hangs around his neck. His name is meant to be ironic. Eddie also suspects that Angel was involved in the theft of Mr. Stiles's truck. Secondly, Angel wants Eddie to help him kill the guy who...
Eddie runs away from Angel for two very good reasons. For one, he simply doesn't trust him. Ever since they were kids together Angel has proven to be a bully and a thief. He even stole the crucifix which hangs around his neck. His name is meant to be ironic. Eddie also suspects that Angel was involved in the theft of Mr. Stiles's truck. Secondly, Angel wants Eddie to help him kill the guy who stabbed and killed Jesús, Eddie's cousin and Angel's blood brother. Angel has a gun he received from Eddie's aunt, who also wants revenge. When Eddie refuses to help, Angel calls him a "sissy."
Later Eddie learns from Norma that it was actually Angel who killed Jesús over a bad deal involving a stolen car. From then on Eddie attempts to avoid Angel. When he sees Belinda in the street one day he imagines she is trying to set him up for Angel to kill. He runs away, hopping fences, avoiding both Angel and another young "cholo", Samuel, who Eddie believes is in league with Angel. Much of the evidence against Angel, however, is suspect. Most of it is just "chisme" or gossip. Nevertheless, Eddie's fears are very real and eventually he takes the fight to Angel, jumping him on the porch of Angel's house. They fight twice without a true victor, symbolic of the idea that no one ever really wins in the streets of the Mexican-American neighborhood of southeast Fresno.
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