Killing In The Hill Sparknotes

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America is one of the most developed countries in the world but some areas do not reflect that prosperity, they are the graveyard of the American Dream. They are neglected and ridiculed by the media, politicians and even ordinary citizens because they remind people of the negative aftermath of the Bootstrap ideology and policies which permeates our culture. Julia Keller novel A Killing in the hill considers one of those forgotten towns named Acker Gap: which is facing a drug crisis fueled by addicts who require opioid based on their life of pain (caused by economic hardships). The book main protagonist is Bell a prosecutor trying to find and fix the troubles of the town murder and drug infestation while battling her own inner demons from childhood. …show more content…

They couldn't afford therapy or any mental services that would have helped him cope with his conditions (Julia Keller 79). Furthermore, the effect of poverty isolates Albie from normal interactions because his mom did not have any resources to find a suitable playmate for him. Albie is also illiterate because he couldn't go to school because there is no facility or school of special needs kids in Acker Gap. Therefore, his needs couldn't be met, and he integrates better with the society. If Albie is born in the city, he will have lived a more desirable quality of life and would be had been less of a burden to his sister and mother. Furthermore, Albie disability is less likely to happen if his parent could afford to pay of a doctor and did not have complications during his birth His family members will less likely live in abject poverty because of the lack of opportunities to earn an income because they have to take of …show more content…

We see that in the kids who are living in hostile conditions to their well being in the sense of severe unemployment and abusive parents. Julia Keller's shows that the villains don't make their decisions in a vacuum but are hardened by the harsh conditions which they are raised. The example of that is Chill who is kidnapper of Carla and also the HIRED ASSASSIN of the murdered people in the first chapter, Chill is a nineteen-year-old lad who is bruised physically and emotionally by his father. There is a time he even threw a boot on him because he woke him up on a Sunday Afternoon. (Julia Keller 107). His teachers did not believe the tales he told about the incident in school the next morning they had too much on their hands to be worried. That event is a turning point in Chill life in the sense that he believes he is worthless, and his life trajectory didn’t matter. Which is shown in the sense that when a new teacher starts to take an interest in him he becomes uneasy with the love and care that he retails instead by being lewd. Chills father should have been reported to Child Protective Services by his teachers and made to require a parenting class. Chills will not have fallen through the systems if the school could afford a competent social worker or his father isn't either stretches from the arduous manual labor. This abuse is replicated in the way he is maltreated by the

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