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The economic issues in American society have major effect on young on young children basic needs. Young children do not understand the economic issues their families facing in today’s society. In the short story “The Lesson” the author addresses the reader regarding social and economic inequality in America. In America lower family are suffering the most because of their monthly income and cannot afford things their children’s wants. Therefore, lower family cannot afford the expensive materials for their children because they have to think about their daily life styles. Also these lower families had difficult times affording clothing, food, house rents and other essentials. According to the article, “Children are especially vulnerable economically

To understand literature is to not only understand human nature, but to also understand how the surrounding conditions affect humans. It is often the situation that people are placed in which drives their actions. Similarly, the Marxist approach to studying literature focuses on how certain economic conditions can affect character’s values and actions. In addition, Marxism teaches that wealth is a critical part of society, as without it many opportunities are no longer present. For example, an individual with wealth can go through life leisurely, while a person without it is subject to greater hardships. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the struggle due to economic conditions is evident, as the dreams and aspirations of the Younger family become deferred due to their struggles with poverty. The economic conditions of the Younger family not only lead to the deferral of their dreams, but also to the neglect of their moral values as they begin to see wealth as a necessity.

In Toula’s family, her father lies in the top rank and he is the boss, so he has absolutely the largest power among all the family members. They tend to accept the father’s power and authority simply on the basis of the father’s position in the hierarchy and to respect the father’s right to that power. Authority is inherent in their position within this hierarchy. Everyone must listen to him and he is expected to make decisions autocratically. In the following part, four examples will be given to better illustrate the high power distance in Greek family:

In most if not all cases, the class you are born into will determine how you will be raised, and who you will grow up to become. Whether you can speak up for yourself, if you are humble with what you have or you have a more hectic schedule or not, it all plays into what class you are from. No two childhoods are equal and Annette Lareau in her book, Unequal Childhoods explains why this is the case. I will be examining chapters four, five, and seven. These chapters examine poor and working children and teenagers and how their childhoods differ and relate to each other based on the class they were born in whether that be lower class to the poor. What can be learned from examining these three kids, Harold McAllister, Katie Brindle, and Tyrec Taylor is the advantages and disadvantages of having a childhood in the class of the poor or working class.

My first example of him being judgmental is when he goes through pointing out the flaws of each one of his family members. When he gets to his father he says “He would be a better father than his father, but time has tricked him and mad him a son.” (2) pg. 1070 As the story goes on you soon learn how his parents interacted with each other. The father has a job as a high school math teacher and the mother is a stay at home mom. “The world which he fears is used as a flail on his wife.” I see this as the father getting mad throughout the school day from things unrelated to her then coming home and taking his anger out on her. “They arrived at a dominate/submissive relationship that society has assigned them.” (2) pg. 1072 His parents argued often and he was left to hide away and figure things out on his own. Lastly, I say he was independent because of what happened when his parents were called on to be recognized as his parents. “When their presence was announced to the audience, they did not stand; The applause groped for them then died.” Pg.

Establish that your character had a poor relationship with his or her parents (provide text details!)

“Children worked in very dangerous conditions in the picture represent in document 8” (Document 8). The children working in the factories have to be careful not to get their limbs or foreign objects lodged into the machines. If they got injured or ill and had to miss work in order to properly recuperate. “You are considerably deformed in person as a consequence of this labor? Yes I am” (Document 7), a woman that worked in a flax mill as a young girl was left deformed from all the harsh labor that was forced upon her while growing up. Not only did the parents have to work in order to be able to provide for their family, but their children had to work in order to contribute to be able to put food on the table for the whole family due to the parents lack of pay. “Children were uneducated and were unable to attend school as seen in document 6” (Document 6). Because of the lack of education many adults were illiterate, which caused many problems for example, learning basic life skills would be more difficult and time consuming because people are unable to self-educate by reading informational books on how to acquire basic skills “I am at work in a spinning room tending four sides of warp which is one girl’s work” (Document 1) Children were over worked the girl that spoke in the text about was forced to do the work of four separation girls all in one. Furthermore is unhealthy for anyone at any age

They needed to learn how to adapt to very low pay because they were “ hanging always on the verge of starvation” and if they didn't, they would starve to death. The factory owners treated their workers very poorly, and would have made them work so hard that they suffered greatly from the intense labor the job required In this system of capitalism, Sinclair discussed how it related to slavery; the poor would always be controlled by the rich. The rich tried their best to maintain their high positions by exploiting their workers for lower wages so that they won't be able to save money and break “the system of chattel slavery.” The businessmen and politicians took advantages of the lack of regulations there was. The workers felt oppressed of this system because they were not able to express themselves truly or strike against the factories because they were threatened to lose their

shows characteristics of great piety to his parents and the lack of desire to be

The first thing learned is that poverty is a way of life for these children. Although they know they are poor, it doesn't bother them because everyone there is poor. It's okay to be without when there isn't any competition. An example of this is seen when the children talk of their study areas at home. Only one of them actually have a desk and paper, and the others think nothing of it. Instead they tell her to shut up about it. The children are proud of themselves and of their life.

This quote I found from an online article explains what kids went through during this harsh time. It almost sounds like they were slaves by how low they were getting paid. Most of us have never even heard of kids working late at nights doing jobs that today no one can possibly do because they have been replaced with machines from the dangers they carry. Children worked some of the most dangerous factory jobs that existed and they didn’t by choice. They had no choice but to work because either their family was poor or they were orphans.

Yunior is a 9 year old boy and the narrator of the story, who is living and growing up with his older brother, Rafa. Since his mother is working and his dad is in New York, Yunior’s main parental figure is Rafa. For Yunior, Rafa isn’t the best guardian around because he does inappropriate things like stealing and doing activities with girls (Word/ say this differently) (Maybe use a citation). Rafa is a bad influence for his younger brother by doing these things because Yunior is always watching his every move.

The “Gypsies” were said , by the Nazi’s, to have evil powers and would only bring sorrow and misfortune to the villagers. The fear and suspicion quickly turned into hostility. The villagers poked, prodded, kicked, whipped and tortured the boy for days while other watched and laughed “My body burned from the slashes of the whip...”(Kosinski 17). As time passed, a plague spread throughout the village, they believed that the boy must have brought the misfortune to them. They believed that if they rid themselves of the “Gypsy boy”, they would be free of the misfortune. Enraged, the villagers threw the boy into the river in hopes of his death by drowning. The actions of the villagers were compelled by their prejudice against the boys’ perceived ethnic origins. The alienation and loneliness the boy feels after being separated from his parents and the only other person that has taken care of him is gone, now he is all alone. The boy learns that he will have to learn to cope with the alienation and loneliness in order to survive this world. The unknown causes people to be quick to judge. The fear and hate of the unknown causes people to commit horrible acts, which only gets easier when they are sanctioned by state authority.

As a child Ruki was shy and timid, he didn't have friends and his mother was a drug addict. He was often left alone and had to cook for himself as his mother was usually out sleeping with old rich men, most of the time she neglected him and be in a dazed state from her drugs. Ruki was forced to watch when his mother had sex with men and more often than not forced him to sleep with her, when she wasn't neglecting him she would sexually abuse him. At school he got bullied by three of his classmates however he did a have a close friend named Aemilius who was also his next door neighbor, they would often protect him from bullying which resulted in them getting hurt and Ruki scolding them after. Aemilius was (selectively) mute so to communicate they would teach him sign language or write on a paper not that ruki cared, both of them come from abusive households and know about each other's situation which is why they became friends in

The internalisation of values from surrounding world freedom as a child, perhaps explain his morality as an adult. The internalised values system and role model of his unreliable, drunk and extravagant mother and his distant divorcee father would form the points of reference for acceptable behaviour as an adult.