Westside Story

Westside story is a broadway play/movie that is set in the mid-1950s. It is about two New york gangs, the Sharks and the Jets. The Sharks are first generation americans from Puerto Rican families. The Jets are working class white boys who believe they are the true americans. The two gangs are always going at it. Tony a member of the Jets falls for Maria the sister of Bernardo the leader of the Sharks. They try to find ways to sneak around so they can be together. Than the Sharks and Jets have a rumble where Riff(the leader of the Jets) is killed by Bernardo, and Bernardo is killed by Tony who than runs to find Maria. Everything is against them so they make a plan to run away together. But than when Anita goes to Docs store and tries to give Tony a message the other gang members mess with her until tells them that Maria was killed by Chino because he found out about them when it waasnt true. When Tony finds out about he goes looking for him so he can kill him to. When he sees Maria and runs to her Chino shoots him and kills him. At the end of the movie you kind of see a little bit of reslove from the the to gangs. This movie pretty much shows how hate will kill us all.