Compare And Contrast Living On The Street

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The author Wes talks about what living on the street is like. He explains the description of the streets very well. It influences young boys that are in school to do things that no one their age should do. It influences them to get caught up in the drug game and doing things that men three times older than them are doing. They have things in their hands like drugs, and guns that shouldn 't even be talked about that they are dealing with. Kids are dropping out of school just to mess around in drugs and they are blind by all the money they are receiving. Also, all of this is highly illegal and even men get put in prison for doing these kinds of activities. I think this is so attractive to this boys because I think they have all this freedom to …show more content…

These ladies were both very similar but very different on how they support their son. They are very similar because both are in poverty don 't have a husband to help out the family. They both have to decide what they young son’s life is going to be like because at the end of the night they are the ones that should be deciding the rules. Not letting them go out and do what they want to do. How Mary is different is she doesn 't have much money. She doesn 't take care of Wes discipline wise, she calls tony and he has to take care of it. After he got in the drug game she really only flushed his drugs down the toilet and she lost her son after that. She really didn 't want to have her kid back anymore. I honestly think that Mary is a very selfish mom. How Joy is different is that it 's not that she didn 't have a lot of money, it 's just she was having trouble to continue to pay stuff either be college or to help pay Wes’s school. She continued to want Wes to go to school even if that meant all the struggling. Even the Joy was very depressed during the story she was still trying to make Wes happy with the school. I think that she tried very hard for Wes. With not going to college anymore for Wes. Paying for the military school for Wes. Joy isn 't selfish at all she wanted to help was become the man of the house. “She took the boxes into the bathroom, lifted their tops, and emptied the contents into the toilet. She watched every once, every rock, every leaf, every crystal float to the bottom of the toilet bowl until the water was cloudy and white. She flushed it away once and then again and again until the water in the bowl returned to its normal clarity.” said the author (pg. 73)I think this shows that she cared that she didn 't want her son to be doing drugs but at the same time I think she flushed them so if she got caught with them. She didn 't get in

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