They were not like the other kids in their grade. They “spoke only when spoken to” (Flack, 4) and they were regarded as “born scavengers too, for they spent hours foraging in the town dump.” (Flack, 4) This gave their peers a strange feeling towards them. Furthermore, the kids were also teased for other reason and “some of their classmates scoffed at the leaf, lard and black bread sandwiches they ate for lunch, huddled in one corner of the recreation room, dressed in their boiled-out ragpickers’ clothes. After school they headed straight for home, never lingering on the playground.” (Flack, 4) The Duvitch children were different from the rest, they would do certain things that were unlike the rest of the boys and girls and they were not accepted because of this. Towards the end of the story, during the dinner with Andy’s family, Andy began to realize the children’s real personalities.
This is a major problem that we need to solve. The Bliss type of homeless should not be incorporated into the statistics we as a nation gather this is because they are not the true homeless people, they are the lazy and unmotivated people of society. They can choose to be houseless if they want to, but they should be excluded from any sort of statistic that we
She must fight off the influences of her grandmother, who encourages her to marry for security, and her first two husbands, who thwart her development. Her second husband, Jody, has an especially negative impact on Janie's growth as his prevailing aspirations turn her into a symbol of his stature in the town. She is not allowed to be herself, but must subdue herself to his ideas of propriety, which means she cannot enjoy the talk of the townsfolk on the porch let alone participate in it. “This business of the head-rag irked her endlessly. But Jody was set on it.
Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. Prejudice,”(245) which shows that her teacher is against persecution. Later on, Scout over hears her teacher saying that it is a good thing Tom Robinson was being convicted because colored people were getting too “high” and “mighty.” That subject has Scout’s head roaming around thinking how hypocritical her teacher was being. Scout’s view against her father were also changing. Before she thought that Atticus was different from the other fathers in Maycomb because he was too old and couldn’t do anything fun with them.
His own family disapproved of it. The reason for that was because they knew it was going to be biased. There were too many risks in taking that case. He risks being criticized by the townsfolk in Maycomb. Mrs. Dubose criticizes him at one point and says, “Atticus is a Nigger lover!” or when she says, “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!” He also puts his re-election for legislature in jeopardy because of all the racist people living there.
The detail in this book also brings out the topic that Holden doesn’t want to accept adult hood in his own life or that of any other child. Saying that the life of an adult is “phony” because of the goals and desires they pursue. But also Holden’s life is out of place because of this. Holden doesn’t understand why people want to change or why they have the loss of innocence after adolescence. Jane, Holden’s friend, is one of the many people that Holden wants to save, along with phoebe and the rest of the adolescent world.
At home, he lived in fear of his mother and resented his father for not helping him. His siblings, at the insistence of his mother, often joined in abusing him. Dave Pelzer had every reason to develop into a product of nurture. After entering the foster care program, Dave Pelzer did not know how to behave in society. He defied his foster parents rules and go in trouble at school.
McCandless thought that society was corrupted and evil institution. He wanted to go as far away from it as possible. He did not want to be linked to the type of society that we have point blank. His attitude towards life i was very hard to get yet simple depending on how you looked at it or explained it. He abhored society but couldn’t help, but be a part of it.
However, Elijah did struggle with some things. Elijah was what we call an introvert, meaning that he did not like to work with other people. He chose to work alone and as a result, paid for his choice through isolation. He also fled in fear from Jezebel when she threatened his life. Elijah should have stood firm before Jezebel because if God be for you, who can stand against
It is a group of individuals that want to find their place but have no direction to guide them. In the end though, a functionalist would view a gang as a dysfunction because it does not really provide anything positive to a society and only brings harm and instability due to its unorganized and violent nature (Schaefer, 2011, pg.