Throughout our lives, we have passed through different phases that try to change the type pf life we have. Change cannot be predictable. It is difficult for one to change when we have people around and drift us away. This usually happens to those who want to fulfill their dream. For example Oscar "Buffalo" Brown. Buffalo Zeta's dream has been to write and publish his own book about his life. Despite Zeta's drug-addiction problems, he chooses to either be a Chicano lawyer, a "sell out" or a disappointment to his people. In the book, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, by Oscar Zeta Acosta, Brown faces many challenges that made him a real person by having temptations that couldn't be resisted.
Zeta Brown, as a Chicano lawyer, fights for the Chicano Movement, a movement full of actions, and considers himself as a "professional revolutionary" (153). Zeta didn't know what role he had in the Chicano Movement but talking to Cesar Chavez gave him an advice, saying, "Listen, Viejo It doesn't matter if I approve or if anyone approves. You are doing what has to be done" (46). Cesar Chavez tells Brown to never give up for what he wants to be. He just has to accept life as it comes like the way Lopitos did it. He gets confused because he has been "tired of being a legal spokesman, a leader who is always exempt from danger" (82). As a leader that Zeta wants to be, he wants to be sure of what he's going to do and he wants to change society. He wants to start with "the church to become more democratic more involved in social-action programs" (79). Brown goes against the church because the church only wants money from us to get the church going and sometimes we don't know where all that money goes. Buffalo Zeta Brown participates in a few trials and makes everything possible for his people to give him support and by giving them hope for them to follow him. Brown fights for the Chicano Movement and leads his "cockroaches" to the struggle with the power and passion he has.
