Homeless Grisham Analysis

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Grisham talks about a reality that a homeless population is facing, the criminalization of the displaced. Some cities began to enforce laws very strictly that give no hope to the homeless. These rules are not looking to the homeless but lock them up so that they are out of mind and view. These rules include, loitering for a person who is asking for money, hindering traffic and for a person sleep in on a city bench it is public intoxications. Additionally, city officials have even relocated homeless people from affluent parts of town to more poverty-stricken areas. More serve than that has been to arrest them and now they are placed in the system. Grisham them turns the writing back to the title and with his strongest message yet writes “Everyone has to be somewhere. The problem of homelessness is not solved by removing the victims from our view” (Somewhere for Everyone). It is …show more content…

Teenage delinquency, depression and pregnancy are three areas that Wilcox describes are where a father’s role makes a difference. When it comes to delinquency, he states that children with quality contact with their father are less likely to be apart of delinquent acts and behaviors compared to other children who don’t have the same quality with their father or children raised with just a mother. Compared to girls who don’t have quality contact or who are raised by a single mother have a reduced chance of becoming pregnant in their teenage years according to Wilcox. Children have a reduced chance of becoming depressed when they have both parents. Children need stable male figures in their life in order to navigate through their lives successfully. These areas show how a father playing an active part in their child’s life can have an everlasting effect just as homelessness affects the individual and the

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