Breaking Night Sparknotes

Breaking night is a biography about a young girl called Liz Murray, who grew up in the Bronx. Her parents are poor, and they are drugs addicts. When her mother boyfriend become cruel to her Due to her mother getting HIV, and family falls apart, at the age of fifteen ends on the streets. While on the streets she lives day by day trying to find food and a place to sleep. Fortunately, she does meet individuals in her life that support and encourage to finish her high school and eventually she gets into Harvard University. This paper will discuss the risk factors and protective factor that Liz experience throughout her childhood.

RISK FACTORS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Many risk factors threatened Liz wellbeing wither these are her individual, peers, and others in the community. In regards to individual factors, because she did not interaction anyone other than her immediate family, she showed antisocial behaviours. Due to her environment occurred to the many factors that she faced at homes such as her parent's substance abuse, unstable home life, the absence of good parenting, mother mental illness and economic distress with the family. As a result of the stressful family life, when her mother tells her that

Due to the low socio-economic status, Liz resides in poor arrears, which also meant resources such as good schools, and safe recreation for playing. Liz grows up only being surrounded by her immediate family, but when she started middle school she makes a friend Sam. she is energetic, and ambitions and both of them are thinking of leaving travelling. However, like Liz, Sam also come from abuse family and often she wears a mask. The two of them spend much time together on streets and become. Liz hung around deviant peers groups which included Sam, and other peers resulted in were terrible influences because she was the reason that Liz was skipping school for the