Pattern Of Self-Destructiveness

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In this week's chapters, I noticed a pattern of self-destructiveness behavior within the tenants. For example, Pam and Ned were approved for a good apartment in the Mexican south side which they were kicked out of because of Ned's drunken encounter with a neighbor. This led them to find a new place but this could have been avoided if Ned wouldn't have made a scene. I don't feel any empathy for Ned, I feel for Pam and her daughters who deal with a racist person every day. "One day he got a kick out of getting all the girls to march around the house chanting, "White power! (239)." This comment confirms that he is a racist and a white supremacist. Normally I would bash on Ned and how horrible of a person he is but through this book I've been

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