Devlin's Story Analysis

While bearing some resemblance to the author’s life, Keeper’n Me illustrates an intriguing story behind a young man, Garnet Raven, who going through residential schools and the foster care system starting at a very young age, eventually finds his way home to White Dog Reserve where his family awaits his return. The novel begins with the protagonist along with his siblings, Jane, Jackie, and Stanley, being taken away from their family then becoming split up among themselves. While his brothers and sister find their way back, Garnet faces a more troublesome path. Following his escape from his foster home in his teen years, he

The foster parents couldn’t keep me forever, so every day I waited for my chance to have a stable home, but as each year went by with no calls or visits hope began to vanish.

The author, Nina Biehal, tells of the treatment in foster care and the need for correction in her article, "Maltreatment in Foster Care: A review of the evidence." The author gives many facts about how the government needs to change the level of care provided for the children. This article is more of a constant reminder of how much still needs to change and the level of care offered to children of abuse today. Unlike the article by authors Kristen Turney and Christopher Wilderman, which bases their article on the number of children in foster care receiving mental health care, Biehal gives evidence to support the problems that result from being in foster care. My essay can use this article to paint a picture of the number of children in detrimental conditions and how foster care developed problems with their system to support my argument.

Sonny has a “rough” time where he finds himself in “jail” for “narcotics trafficking” (208). Skloot reveals how not having a guardian and guidance leads someone to turn to occupations they would have never committed to before. Also, she emphasizes how authority is needed in a child so they may stay in the right path of life. Also, Deborah becomes so upset she cries out for help: “‘...Just being sad and crying to myself..Why, Lord, did you take my mother when I needed her so much?’” (218). Deborah changed from a happy child to someone in desperate need of a parent when she lost her mother. Skloot reveals how the requisite fostering of a parent lifts the children up in awful

(INTRODUCTION)Being abused and neglected should not be occupying a ten year old’s mind. In the the book Ellen Foster written by kaye Gibbons, a young girl undergoes abuse from her alcoholic father after her mother commits suicide. Ellen is then left to fend for herself and along the way she becomes mature and responsible . Eventually she ends up finding herself a loving home and a family to take her in. Being abused and neglected by people who should have loved her , Ellen is traumatized; she ends up fending for herself causing her to become more responsible, and becomes mature.

Though most children in the United States are raised in a safe and secure environment, there are many who are not. In 2013, 3.9 million children were the focuses of at least one Child Protective Services report in the United States; close to one-fifth of these reports (679,000) were confirmed (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015). In his novel, The Lost Boy, author, Dave Pelzer, describes the life of a young boy during his abusive times at home, court room hearings, and movement from foster home to foster home. He depicts the story from the child, David’s perspective. This allows for the reader to understand how a child views the welfare system, foster system, child therapy, and more. The main problem David experienced, besides the abuse from his biological mother, was an overall lack of support. “Facts for Families” (2000) claims that children have basic needs for both physical and mental health, including unconditional familial love, a safe and secure environment, and appropriate (emphasis on the appropriate) support and discipline. After being separated from his family, David jumped from foster home to foster home. Many times, this was simply due to a misunderstanding or circumstances that were in no way his fault, though he blamed himself a lot. This book illustrates the trials of one young boy, yet it speaks for the millions of children in the U.S. who go through these same hardships in their everyday lives.

Norah Stoakes and her brother Gavin, are children from Britain that are sent to Canada as war guests during World War 2.  When the children are delivered to a cottage out in the Muskoka region, the two are taken care of by their guardians Aunt Florence and Aunt Mary for the summer.  Soon after their arrival, Norah falls into a problem as she quickly falls in love with an older boy named Andrew.  For weeks on end, Norah constantly thinks about Andrew and continuously follows him wherever he goes and watches his every move, hoping that he and others around her won’t catch on to her feelings towards him.  As a result of Andrew’s age and the fact that he doesn’t return the same feelings to her, she is filled with distress.

Mary Keane was a loving lady who had the dream to turn a mansion into a group home for lesbian girls because of their struggles they encountered. Although her dreams did not come true as there are not many lesbians in the foster care system, she still opened a group home to girls only. Mary fostered 11 kids and practiced “moral adoption’, which is committing to a child for life. She didn’t want to only help a child until the day they turn 18, but until they stop needing assistance. She said that many times after a foster child would move out after 18 they would soon regress and need someone’s help, but not receiving any help from the foster care agency or their old foster parents. Mary mainly focused on safety and praise and told her foster children that nobody would be kicked out, but they would work

The main goal of Foster Care is to help children learn and grow in a different environment when they are no longer safe in their home with their current parent/guardian. Although there are always ‘kinks’ in the system, where certain children may be misplaced or separated from their siblings, the

In the article ‘Growing Up in the Care of Strangers’ Jon Seita and Waln Brown explore the untold truth of the foster care system. Working alongside 11 former foster kids they explain how the system puts some kids in excruciating experiences what can cause trauma. The former foster kids tell their stories To help spread insight along with compassion on the lives of someone in the system. One of the foster kids reflects on her childhood, saying how she and her siblings were made to beg on the street along with being pushed by the burns of a cigarette that scared all over their bodies. When the kid's age out the system their problems don't end there. Many of them are ill-prepared for society due to not having any choices growing up. The authors

Some adopted children create their own story about the circumstance of their adoption. Whenever they lack of information, they use their ‘magical thinking’ in describing the scenario of their adoption just what they watch in television screens. Adoptee who knows very little about his adoption and his biological families compares their knowledge in a book without its first chapters or lives written in pencil that can easily be erased. Some researchers have found that ambiguous loss often peaks for adopted youth during adolescence when identity becomes part of the teenager’s developmental tasks. Boss also added that the greater the ambiguity surrounding one’s loss, the more difficult it is to master (the loss) and the greater one’s depression,

Boys ripped away from their parents; angry with the world, not comprehending why this happened to them. Today is the day that my sister and I have one of many serious conversations with my parents concerning our thoughts and feelings about our family taking in, and possibly adopting foster boys. Now Corissa and I didn’t quite know what to expect because we had never experienced bad behavior from little kids; both of us obeyed our parents. These boys will most likely not obey my parents because they haven't had parents who made them obey. Knowing this, my mom and dad wanted to discuss the possible scenarios we could encounter. We then agreed we were willing to put aside our uncomfortness to make a difference in these boys’ lives.

At the age of 15, Aiden has had more foster parent than he can count. All he has ever wanted is to be released from the grim clutches of foster care, he dreams of the day he'll be free. When Aiden saves a young boy from being kidnapped, he earns the appreciation of the child's wealthy and powerful grandfather Mr. Bai. When asked what he can do in return, Aidan says "Can you make me disappear?” Mr. Bai creates a new identity for Aiden an 18-year-old man named Julian. Equipped with fake identity papers, a job, an apartment, and even a credit card, Julian is set to begin his new life!

While Christopher is aware of the interconnection between his past and present, he refuses to learn from them, rather he just deems them “cause and effect” and life complacently in his own life. Christopher’s desperate attempts to convince the reader and himself of his superiority and his capability way of fitting in just reveals the extreme insecurities that come with being alienated from society and family. The language of this novel is a powerful tool because in it’s unsophistication, it pushes the boundaries of the role of a reader in a novel. Orphanhood in this novel is a representation of the consequences and alienation one experiences when they try to run from their past tragedies; whether it be from family, cultural, or even from one’s true self. This novel attests to the fact that no matter how hard someone attempts to separate themselves from their past while failing to acknowledge the truths of their orphanhood they are running from, then they will perpetually be in a cycle of orphanhood rather than

They present multiple points of view from various age groups. ‘A Painful Case” came from the maturity section and is, overall, about loneliness and isolation, but the selected passage represents the portion of the story that is about the fear Mr. Duffy feels toward his friendship with Mrs. Sinico and the doubt that any good will come from the friendship. My passage connects back to the overall theme of the work by presenting Mr. Duffy’s urge to not be lonely, but not knowing how to go about changing it, in a visual representation; a