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Text Analysis: The Homeless

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There are millions of homeless people out on the street. When you walk down the street, you may not know if a person passing you by has a place to sleep tonight. Homeless people could look like people you could go to school or work with. Some of them are ashamed by the fact that they are or were homeless, and they carry that shame with them for the rest of their lives. In Text 3, the book starts of with the main character finding her mother looking through the garbage on the street. Instead of Jeannette saying hello, she hides and later on, decides to admit to her mother, "I was too ashamed, Mom. I hid."(pg 5) Like Jeannette, Grady of Text 1 did not want outsiders to know of where he lived or in Jeannette's case, how she used to live. Homeless people who do not want people to …show more content…

According to Text 2, the homeless are constantly searching for warmth, shelter, and food. They find that they are always short on supplies and out of money for medical care, and that affects them long term. Because they do not have proper health care, the homeless is stuck unable to prevent diseases and sicknesses. Some may need medicine to treat their depression, but cannot afford to buy the medicine, like in Text 1. Being homeless can be a huge stress on people. Grady, in Text 1, suffers depression and he says the medicine he takes does not work and is too expensive anyways. He has "zero energy, almost no interest in life, and little hope of getting either back." Also, they always have to lie about their life to come off as any other person they know at school or at work, even to their loved ones. In Text 1, Grady Sedgwick is the author's pen name. His real name is not mentioned because he does not want her family and friends to know that he is homeless. It seems like he is not close

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