In the short story it shows that their mother is a recovering addict. It shows the point of view of having a parent that is a drug addict. Noemi explained that their mother hardly took care of her and Olivia. The prospective on having a drug addict as a parent is that they are unable to take care of their children. The author added this into the story, because it is very common for children to have parents that are drug
It described in great detail all the long nights of drug use and partying. I felt like I had been up all night with Kristina. The ending was not at all predictable. When Kristina returns to her mom's house to get clean from the drugs and to have the baby you believe that she will succeed. After she talks to her mother about not being able to provide for the baby and how difficult it was to love him, she decides to give the baby to her mother to adopt and raise.
The car she is driving, some old blue bomb, is abandoned outside the drug testing office. She’s walking several miles a day to the drug court office because people who are unemployed or not in school have to put in hours cleaning up the place. Finally, in July 2006, Dawn uses drugs and knows she will get caught. She makes up a half-hearted story but, truly, she’s tired. Tired of being a failure.
Tracy is doing well in her school work, but has temper tantrums at home when things do not go her way. Harold was recently laid off from a job he held for over 10 years and is feeling very discouraged. His mother has loaned him money until he can find another job, but he worries about his ability to take care of his family. Shirley returned home from duty three weeks ago. She was initially very happy to see her family, but is having trouble adjusting to being back home.
Kristina and her boyfriend finally get an apartment together and the also move in Kristina’s son, against her mother’s wishes. Things are very tense in the tiny apartment due to a shortage of meth and the lack of income and it finally peaks one night when Kristina and Trey are especially irritable and it ends in a physical confrontation and Kristina calls her mother to take the baby back home with
As well as being unorganised she was caught skipping classes a number of times. The former students’ mother is also seeking compensation for moving expenses in excess of $39,000. After falling ill in term two of 2009, the former student did not return to Geelong Grammar. This article is inaccurate, because she does not deserve to sue the school as it is her own fault for
She wants to reveal these secrets to someone, but she can’t tell her friends because she assumes that they will criticize her. She writes about all her worries concerning her father’s alcoholism on scraps of paper and puts the note in a library book. A few days later she receives a note from a person whose initials are A.J.K and opens up even more about her father’s alcohol abuse as well as her crush on an older boy named Drew, but later finds out that A.J.K is a boy who works at the library. After that she goes to a party with Drew and that where everything hits rock bottom for her because she starts to drink and starts telling lies to everyone, but understands what she did was inappropriate. At the end her father finally admits that he is an alcoholic and goes to rehab for
But the day he go to the college came, while his mom drive him to the college he started crying and his mom tried to cheer him up. A few months later, he was getting into routine of studying and his thing, but he still feels homesick, and miss his family. His roommate
Madera’s desire to overcome her language barrier caused her to decide to go back to college and take English courses (79). Madera had taken her weakness into her own hands and decided to fix it by going back to school. She realizes that the way she speaks does not show the type of person that she, but her writing does (80). “The Bar of Gold” also talks about how the protagonist, Weeping John, is his own constraint, and because of that he is not able to move forward. In this folktale, Weeping John is constantly sick because he is worried about how his family will survive after his death (Gold 148).
Stories Theresa L. Flores in the book The Slave Across the Street, shares her story about her being a victim of the involuntary servitude: prostitution. Flores would move from city to city consequently since her parents job required it. She couldn’t have a stable friendship since she would move many times, and in order to change that she decided to join the track team. She thought she would be able to make some new friends since she was now involved in school. She had to stay for practice afterschool, and that’s how her nightmare started.