Rex Ogle’s critical literacy story, Free Lunch, takes place at school when Rex gets made fun of and is secretly on the Free Lunch Program. The story also takes place at home in their 1 bedroom apartment with abusive parents and a baby brother. Rex has to watch and hear his mom and step dad fight over things like who’s going to pay for the little amount of groceries every two weeks or if they should let Rex play football and who would pay for that. Sometimes the fights can get too serious and lead to black eyes, holes in the walls, food splattered all over the place, or tables upside down. Rex gets abused by his mom and step dad if he does something wrong or he talks back. One lesson the story suggests is that violence can get out of hand and …show more content…
Ogle describes how Rex and his family are struggling with paying the rent of the apartment and buying groceries for four people. Rex’s friends are joining football and Rex doesn’t want his friends to know that his family can’t afford it. Rex wants to show his friends that he is not a baby and says that he is going to play football. That night when Rex and his family sat down to eat, he pulled out the football waiver that his mom or step dad, Sam, had to sign in order for him to play and everything went worse than he thought. Rex says he wants to join football but his mom said “No way!” Sam steps in and says that Rex should join football. “Now hold on Luciana. If Rex is serious, I support him. Better than reading books all the time. He’d get some muscles, and maybe a girlfriend, and stop being such a sissy all the time.” This scene shows how the family is hurting because Rex’s mom said that they couldn’t afford it and she knows how much Rex wants to play football. Physical violence can start when someone has been emotionally hurt and they don’t know how to deal with …show more content…
Sam goes on about how Rex could make so many new friends and that he would pay for all of the gear and pictures. Then Luciana says,” How are you going to pay for it, huh? You’re a loser and a deadbeat. A has-been. You don’t have any money. You don’t even have a job.” After that, everything goes wild. Sam throws the table on its side and hamburger helper goes flying all over the walls, and now Sam is all up in Luciana’s face and they are both screaming at eachother. Luciana knows how to hurt someone. She goes on about Sam’s alcoholic father and his ice-cold mother, about what a loser he is, how she needs to go out and find a real man, one that can pay the bills. Rex’s baby brother Ford is on the verge of tears so Rex picks him up and carries him to the bedroom to get him away from the fight. “Even behind the thin, plastic door, we can still hear it, feel it. Hear the brawl, the screams turning into thuds and gasps for air. Feel the floor vibrations of wrestling and kicking, someone trying to hold their ground, and failing. Feel two bodies crash to the floor, and hear a woman's voice wail in pain. And even though it’s so quiet,even twenty feet away, I know the sound of air moving aside as a fist comes down, again and again.” Rex turns on a radio and distracts Ford with a pillow fort. “When I try to go to sleep, I still hear the fighting outside the door. I try not to move, not
" So..uh...where are we going?" Because this is starting to feel familiar, and he's somewhat worried that Tuck's going to beat him up and take his money or something. Well, Rex has no money right now, but still. Tuck may not know that.
On the weekend after his final regular-season high school football game, Pat Tillman was involved in a serious altercation outside a popular local pizza shop. Coming to the defense of one of his friend who was involved in the initial quarrel, Pat attacked the first person he could grab. Unbeknownst at the time, the
He believed that since he had been denied this chance, his kids, especially Cory, shouldn't have the same chance in football. He was furious about everything sports-related because of the
Rex leaving his family after taking care of them is what makes him a complex character. He will show affection to his children, and then later that night he will leave his family. These actions are contradictory, thus making him
Feel two bodies crash to the floor, and hear a woman's voice wail in pain. And even though it’s so quiet, even twenty feet away, I know the sound of air moving aside as a fist comes down, again and again. ”(45) This description of Free Lunch shows that violence can get out of hand and really hurt someone, mentally and
How The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Conveys that Violence is Not the Answer to conflict Violence doesn't solve conflict, but instead creates more. This is the case in the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. This point is developed when Ponyboy runs away due to some violence that occured at his household, Johnny killing Bob, and Johnny dying.
I 'M SORRY! NO MORE!" Talc looked at Brazilianite with disgust, "You are not the son I raised, I don 't even recognize you, I know what you have done and I am _ashamed,_ You are a murderer. When i said there are no such thing as bad gems I must 've lied, because you are a bad gem. There 's nothing good about you."
When Rex and his family moves to Welch he changes from before and becomes really irresponsible. When Jennette and Rosemary are arguing about if Rosemary should leave Rex,things got heated and Jennette walked off and then Lori went and talked to her and said “She needs to be firmer, lay down the law for dad instead of getting hysterical all the time,” (Walls,208). This quote shows that Rex walks all over Rosemary so that he can get it his way and chose no be irresponsible. Rex doesn't understand that he needs to help his family and that he can’t keep on stealing money and expect everyone to be happy with him. Rex Walls can’t save himself or his family because of how irresponsible he is.
Tigo replies “None of them really send me, but that's the club on my block, so what,er you gonna do,
During the 1987 championship game “in a fit of rage, [he] physically assaulted a player, the quarterback” he had no way of knowing how to apologize to Neely (Grisham 204). When Neely was in collage he had broken his knee playing football. Coach Rake came to visit him in the hospital after visiting hours, to see Neely. Until his funeral in a speech he had not apologized nor did Coach Rake know how to. Because Neely was one of his favorite players and he could not show his favorites is why he was especially tough on Neely.
Violence can trigger emotions that cannot be undone which can lead to regret. Wes’s father wanted to teach Wes that violence is not tolerated especially a lady. For the other Wes, he never had a father to guide him to make the right decisions or reprimand when he was wrong. This is one of the key factors into why the other Wes got into trouble with violence and drugs. Even though the author did experience trouble with violence and drugs, he realized violence would lead to more violence.
Of course, violence and videogames are hand in hand. Occasionally, the twins like to pretend as if they are in an actual video game. When they do this type of pretend play, violence comes along with it. The twins have to constantly be reminded to take it down a notch and that violence is an unacceptable way of playing. The use of social media not only leads to violent behavior, but also causes social and emotional changes.
Ricky attempts to assure Hector that they will exit this situation together, and all will be well. Hector seems unsure and opposes Ricky's idea.
Rex did set a bad example for his children many times, like his alcohol issue and his love for liquor. He also ran from the government but taught his kids life lessons along the way. His daughter Jeanette had an accident where she caught on fire, ¨I felt a blaze on my right side. I turned to see where it was coming from and realized my dress was on fire.¨( 9 ) She then caught all the way and her mother rushed into the room to help her.
Social learning theory will be used to examine the basis of learned behavior, specifically early exposure to violence, and how the behaviors observed by an individual may later become imitated in one’s relationships. Conflict theory will also be used to examine