Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Random Family!

"They wanted to leave the familiar world behind, but no one knew the direction out."
this is the sentence impresses me the most through out the whole book. It is like i just suck in a gray dirty smoke, which stays inside my chest and drives me hard to breathe in and out. I am trying to scream out....
It seems like everyone lives in Bronx neighbordhood has a miserable life, women sleep with different guys and have a bounch of children; guys jump in and out of drugs and some illegle isuues, which eventually bring them into jail; kids grow up with poverty, drug, complicated family background, est. Everyone suffers, sights, pains.
They need a way out, but Where? Education is seen as a way out of the ghetto. To try to improve the chances for her children, Coco follows the well-worn trail of many welfare recipients to the dying upstate industrial city of Troy, where there is more public housing and a somewhat safer street life. Despite her courage to disengage from her Bronx world and pursue her GED, Coco is ill-equipped to handle the challenge. In this case, education could hardly help out those adults, what about their kids? These kids are just so influenced by their family, the community they live in. If we want them to be completely rinsed by education, which is seen a way to take them out of the dropping world, we have to isolate them all from their family and the community they live in. But this is impossible as ask all guys go have a job in Bronx.
Abviously, education is not the one can solve all the problems they meet in Bronx.
They all a need a way out, but how? We are all thinking about it...

1 comment:

DrDana said...

This is a great post, Inge. You do an excellent job of describing the issues the teens face in the book, as well as your reactions. Well done!