Themes In A Place To Stand

Many families in America are given the opportunity to showcase their compassion and affection towards one another, from parent to children, and vise versa. This unconditional compassion and affection is mainly transmitted through one’s parents. Unfortunately, many children take the unconditional love from their parents for granted. They take for granted what others would mourn and hope for. Eventually, as children age, their appreciation towards their parents tend to decrease, and shifts to a materialistic approach. The priority of child changes sharply to popularity, appearance, and everything thing else the American mainstream dictates as “important” and, in turn, then family principles and values become pure folly. There is a solution,

First and foremost, Jimmy’s life was bombarded by life changing events that ultimately shaped his personality and perspectives about life. From an early age, Jimmy was neglected by most, if not all, of his limited family. At only six years of age, Jimmy’s parents abandoned him and left him with his grandparents, but soon there after, they too did abandon him at an orphanage. At such an early age, Jimmy was forced to believe that he was the reason for all the negativity and hatred, which enabled him to believe he was responsible for his family problems. However, Jimmy did not merely blame himself. Jimmy thought “white” people had to a lot a do with the crisis his had been going through because what his own family was doing to him. For instance, his mother abandoned him to be with a “white” guy, in a “white” community. Since his mother left him to be part of a better cultural, Jimmy did not have a stable relationship with his mother and he resented “white people.” Additionally, Jimmy blamed his mother for the apathy of his sister. Jimmy stated, “she would tell me mother what happened, and my mother would convince her that I needed to go to prison” (Baca 96). Jimmy family was full of dishonesty and distrust, which disable Jimmy to believe or even trust in himself. Jimmy renounced,” it was difficult for me to feel good about anything I did” (Baca 63). Jimmy was tormented internally because of the problematic issues within his immediate