Shelter is the main antagonist in the book Stone Cold by Robert Swindells, he is a middle aged man who used to be a soldier but got discharged due to his mental health. He says “If I can't turn garbage into men any more, then I can clean up the garbage, can’t I?”. So he starts killing the homeless people of London and hiding the bodies under the floorboards of his house. He focuses on killing the protagonist, Link, and his friend Ginger because they were laughing at him and he felt insulted. In this essay I will talk about his history, his murders and his mental health. This book does not tell us a lot about Shelters history or even what his real name is but the book does say that he is 47 and was a Sergeant-Major working for the National Service where he would, in his own words, “Turn dirty, scruffy, pimply youths into soldiers. Into men.” When they stopped the National Service he was fired on medical grounds, though he says this is just an excuse and he is “Fit as a butcher’s dog.” Later on in the book it becomes clear that by “medical grounds” they are referring to his mental health not to his physical health. Shelters unique and mysterious …show more content…
One of Shelters sayings is “The secret to victory in any campaign is planning and preparation”. Shelter only targets homeless people who are alone, most of the time he pretends works at a homeless person shelter and tells the kids that they can get food and a bed if they follow him but instead he takes the victims to his home and kills them. He plans everything down to the last detail, for example he makes sure to buy a house that has a basement where he can store the bodies without them rotting. He even buys thick curtains and low energy light bulbs so his neighbors can’t see any light coming through the windows. As you can see he does not leave anything to chance and despite his poor mental health he is still very
Grant successfully managed to treat Mr. G she comes to the realization that a doctor should not judge a patient no matter how they may act, as each patient may have a reason for acting the way they do. Dr. Grant has managed to learn how to combine her own personal experience with her doctoral skills she had learned in medical schools. Dr Grant believes. “ …[A]fter twenty-eight years of schooling, my education continues, both inside and outside the classroom” ( 183). Mr. G was the key figure in changing Dr. Grants judgement. If Mr. G had not shed light onto why he was in the hospital and how he felt stripped of his freedom to Dr. Grant she probably would have just branded him as crazy, she probably would have done the same to similar patients. As Dr. Grant states, “ … I was proud of myself for having accomplished my task… I was proud of myself because I had decided not to prejudge Mr. G” (182). Mr. G exposing his true emotions to Dr. Grant was the reason that she learned that she should not judge unique patients but instead, she should try to communicate with them and better understand so she can better help
Managing a Homeless Shelter Program, with a new interest in researching not-for-profit statistics on senior citizens requires being able to predict the services needed. Often we think of the homeless as individuals or the family, but the elderly are also a homeless population that we should be working towards resolving. “As this vulnerable population continues to age, addressing complex care and housing
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This disadvantage is based on a reduced access to goods, services and accommodations which all contribute to increased rates of poor health. Furthermore, those who are homeless have limited opportunities to protect their well-being. Authors Johnstone, Jetten, Dingle, Parsell, and Walter (2015) claim, as being homelessness is often viewed as to some extent controllable due to reasons such as unemployment, drug addiction or mental illness, those individuals are perceived as responsible for their lack of adequate housing and therefore not worthy of assistance or as a matter of fact not fully human. The homeless, as a group, are seen as incompetent and “the lowest of the low” which elicits the disgust and contempt as well as a prejudice that can make people associate the homeless as subhuman. Noted by author Fischer (1992), data indicates that crimes perpetrated on homeless victims including offenses against property and against the person between seven and forty times more often than the general population. Also, one fifth of homeless adults surveyed in New York had been raped and one of every thirteen shelter users in St. Louis reported sexual
Shelters, however, only represent a small percentage of homeless individuals. Hidden homeless persons, the largest percentage of the homeless (Gerdes, 2007), are people who live in cars, abandoned buildings, family or friends, and often with strangers (Jencks, 1994)). An official estimate was released by the National Secretariat who estimated that there were 150,000 Canadians who were homeless (Think Student Canada, 2009). However, this estimate was mostly based on shelters. Most organizations and groups estimate a larger number of 250,000 homeless Canadians including hidden homeless individuals (Echenber & Jensen, 2005). This paper examines the importance, causes and solutions to a problem of such critical importance and suggests that the government must fund a variety of long-term solutions to aid and rehabilitate homeless persons in order to end this social concern.
Yet, according to the National Resource Center (NRC) on Homelessness and Mental Illness, 80% of the homeless population is off of the streets within 2 to 3 weeks. The NRC is the only national center specifically focused on the effective organization and delivery of services to the homeless and the mentally ill. It is important to note that the NRC reports 10% of people are homeless for 2 months and only 10% are chronically homeless. This fact shows that many people want to get back to ordinary lives and will work hard to do so, in spite of Awalt’s
Studies have shown that, due to the sheer stress and anxiety of being homeless, 30% of the population increase their use of drugs and alcohol. Many homeless people are employed either fulltime or part-time. According to the US Conference of Mayors2008 report, approximately 2% of the homeless population is employed for a period longer than 30 days. Most homeless people are men. The number of homeless families, single women, and unaccompanied youth continue to be a large growing group. Men currently make up 43% of the homeless population. (US Con. Of Mayors 2005). Homelessness is an issue that has become prominent within the last century because of government handouts and assistance programs. The homeless are more likely to be the victims rather than the perpetrators of crime. They are less like to commit crimes against persons or property. Crimes associated with the homeless population are non-violent and non-destructive crimes. At least one homeless person is murdered each month due to hate crimes.. Many of the homeless don’t even report crimes committed against them. Creating more shelters and programs for e homeless will only enable them to stay in their situation. The goal of projects and programs all over the
They plan to give them housing services, production, agencies or entities. Housing and authority permanent houses or the homelessness. Mayor Landrieu prevent to help stop homelessness by trying to bring the state, city and community together to help the homeless as well. Members of New Orleans join together to see and talk about what they can do to stop homelessness ( Medina 4 ) . They plan to start a program to help homeless to have homes where they can stay instead of sleeping on the street. National coalition for homeless thinks that the cause and solution to homelessness much that the community group have to help with there are ways to make a difference with women, men, and children that are homeless ( Medina 4 ). Volunteers worked with the homeless by helping with their needs. Staff members are trying to meet there needs and coping with emergencies. To try or to end homelessness is a very long process it 's not easy at all it 's a lot to deal with and go through in New Orleans homeless people need to have help every single day with programs to get them back on track so that they can help get through homelessness. Its an unsolved problem that the united states and city can do to end homelessness and know how.Obama plan to end homelessness by the year of 2020. ( Rather 2 ) . America has more homeless children and women in the world then men. One quarter of homeless people spend one night in shelters and back on
Looking at the environmental components in relation to the homeless and their mental health, this author found socioeconomic adversity, lack of health insurance and health care, lack of food, clothing, and shelter as the predominant variables. Zlotnick, Zerger, and Wolfe stated that “Limits on shelter stays during the daytime and competing needs to seek food and employment also in...
The stresses of this transitional living even caused one of the Lost Boys to undergo a mental break, for which he had to be hospitalized.
Homeless Shelters are described as “temporary residences” to protect vulnerable populations. Homeless shelters basically supply a bed for the night and are also a first come...
“Homeless is more than being without a home. It is tied into education needs, food, security; health issues both mental and physical, employment issues, etc. Don’t forget the whole picture.” (“Boxed In” 2005 pg. 108)
The National Coalition for the Homeless (2006) is the most effective strategy as it seeks to address the problem of homelessness through various means, including volunteer work, advocacy efforts, and contributions. Firstly, the strategy requires people to volunteer their time to work directly with the victims of homelessness in the city to help them meet their immediate needs. People can volunteer their time to work with children in various programs, share hobbies, and help build houses and shelters among others (Miller, Hess, & Orthmann, 2011). This is extremely important and can help victims of homelessness to acquire some of the basic needs they lack.
They have shelters for them to sleep for a night, and meals for them so they can have. But they don’t have enough of them, and can’t shelters every homeless people in the country. There are over 500,00 people that are living on the streets. In reality they can’t house 500,000 people they don’t have the money for the moment. Unfortunately, not everyone is willing to help the homeless, because they excuse themselves and tell the homeless to get a job, earn things like they did. They are against helping them, because they should not earn things for free. But then again people throw out their money on useless things rather than helping the people who are need of that money to buy food and
The same research indicates that a segment of the total homeless population, precisely eighty percent, will have the opportunity to enter and exit a shelter quicker and never return for a protracted period or somehow never return. The temporal or transitional homelessness is catapulted by series of life-long experiences such as job loss, natural disaster, abuse or divorce, or medical conditions. This kind of people can only over...