Dale had spent time in intensive care after one of his step father’s vicious beatings. Soon after, he was kicked out of home. Dale turned to crime for food and to feed his newly acquired drug habit. By age 17, Dale had been stabbed, had spent time in juvenile detention, was drug dependent and was suffering from malnutrition. Dale is a real person.
For example in “Destroying Avalon” Avalon had to face the death of her best friend Marshall who took his own life because of being bullied for so many years and not letting anyone to support him through his tough times. “Marshall is dead” was repeated in the book to emphasize the feeling of grief Avalon faced. In “The Colour Purple” death and loss is shown when both Celie’s children are taken away from her at birth and is given the impression that they where killed. Bullying occurs the day you are born by society determining colours, interest and behaviours that suit the type of gender you are. However bullying doesn’t really show it’s self until we go to school, this style of bullying can be verbal, physical or electronic.
The Tragedy of Child Abuse A Child Called "It" is a real life story about a boy brutally beaten and starved by his mentally disturbed and alcoholic mother. Dave Pelzer was the third-born of five children (Ronald, Stan, Russell, and Kevin). His father was a firefighter and, according to Dave, his mother was originally a loving, kind, and wonderful person. This all changed when his mother began drinking and eventually became an alcoholic. Even though advocates against child abuse work diligently every day to put an end to child abuse, it is tragic because child abuse can cause physical and emotional distress along with many other factors and child abuse can lead to developmental issues and detachment from others.
The True Meaning behind Alcoholism In “Under the Influence” by Scott Russell Sanders, he portrays, “guilt, shame, rage, and fear, along with the specter of insanity and abandonment. This represents the legacy of alcoholism, in which Sander’s father dies at the age of sixty-four from excessive drinking.” When Sanders father turned to drinking, the liquor would transform him into a different person; the type of person who would be taken away and hidden from world. Moreover, his father’s drinking became a huge part of his life and has made him the way he grew up to be. In brief, Sanders convey his message to his audience consisting of his family, other alcoholics and their families who have dealt or are dealing with alcoholism, and most of all his one and only son about the effects of alcoholism that impacted him as a child and still to this day as an adult. Sanders claims while growing up, his father’s drinking became the family secret because there was no one to turn to for help.
As the years kept going by, my father had moments of sobriety and converted to Christianity; however, it was a vicious circle. I was a teenager, and to me it was very embarrassing going to school and seeing my dad walking drunk around the school area. There was a time when a friend of the family went home to tell my mom that my dad had fallen asleep in a corner of a sidewalk between a car that was parked. My mother had told me to go running and wake him up, since I was younger and faster. So I ran and saw him there… to my surprise, the moment I went to wake him up, there was a man in the car getting ready to take off; as he saw me helping my father he couldn’t believe how he didn’t realize that there was someone laying there and he could’ve ran over him.
Scheller, growing up extremely poor herself, explains that spending your childhood in incessant, unflinching poverty can replace normal self-esteem with a feeling of shame (356). She also speaks of her financial situation being her “shameful secret,” stating that she preferred having no friends to having anyone find out (356). Some impoverished children are in such terrible conditions that they “think that only rich people have their own bedrooms” (Quindlen 359). Another mental side-effect of poverty on children is the creation of prejudice - the undesired conditions of people must be explained somehow, perhaps by blame. Groups form and some “are united by nothing more – and nothing less – than a hatred of the white world and all its works” (Baldwin 364).
I was the first born and was the only child till I was six, but during those six years I witness my mother getting hit by my father and him being drunk every day and never home. I was scared and didn’t know if this was okay and normal for my parents but what I did know is whenever it happened I was hiding and covering my ears. My dad would go on drinking binges for days with his cousins and would never be home, my mom would worry and leave me to go find him, usually he was at a bar or at his cousins house and she would bring him home. That’s when things would get throw, slaps would be heard, cries as well, and another beer opening. It got worse and not only was he hitting my mom but now me as well.
I am Homeless Many different circumstances can be attributed to my current state homelessness. First off, I grew up in a broken home which consisted of my father not being present in my life, and my mother was disturbingly addicted to crack cocaine. My mother’s addiction left me, as well as my seven brothers and sisters dirt poor. In order to feed ourselves we would have to go out and steal food from stores and rob people. I got caught robbing one day and I was sent to jail.
I foolishly believed him and ripped up the divorce papers. A year later, he got me hooked on crack, a secret he hid from me over the past year. Over the next two years, after we had paid our bills and bought what we needed for the house and the boys, we would spend the rest of our money on drugs. I knew in my heart that I was not being a good mom, but I could not walk away. It was not until my boys and I were living in a shelter and my now ex husband living in a car that I started to think that I was not on a right path in my life.
He’s living at home in the beginning, but gets kicked out by his parents because of his drug addiction. Though he is only fifteen he knows a lot about drugs and dealing, and the writer makes him sound like he has been doing drugs for a long time. The environment he is born in, the environment we all are born in is not self-chosen. We don’t choose were we are born and which conditions we are born in to, but the question is, can we break out of the environment we are born in to a better environment? Or perhaps a worse environment than