“Bad” neighborhoods are defined as being characterized by “high poverty, unemployment and welfare receipt, few well-educated adults, and many crimes and gangs.” (Google Dictionary) Living and growing up in a bad neighborhood can have a devastating impact on a child’s development. In Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty it takes place in the town of Chicago where there are crimes and drug dealers going on. A kid named Yummy has been influenced by his town to do bad things. By all means, in the graphic novel Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, Yummy is a victim of his circumstances. To begin, Yummy is a victim because of his miserable childhood and the way he has been growing up. One day during class, all the students were talking about Yummy and how he accidentally killed a girl. Everyone was discussing what they knew about Yummy. Roger states, “His daddy was in prison for drugs. And I heard his mama had been arrested 41 times for drugs and prostitution. She was always in and out of jail”. (Neri 21) This shows that as Yummy has been growing up, there are many negative influences around him. From both his parents always being in jail, leads Yummy into doing bad things. Yummy parents were not there to gear him toward the right path. He grew up being in the image of his parents by not making the right choices for himself. With his parents never by his side, it made him feel like he didn’t belong. Parents are supposed to be role models for …show more content…
From his unhappy childhood memories until the way he grew up, Yummy never had his parent’s by his side to support and love him. He was abused and neglected by his parents at a very young age. Also, the environment that Yummy was in led him into making the wrong decisions that he wouldn’t have made, if he had lived in a better environment. Living in a detrimental neighborhood causes harm to a child and lead them onto a wrong path of
He did not want to be around his parents anymore. He did not like them whatsoever because they weren’t good
Because he was very angry with parents and he thought his parents were idiots and didn't want to talk to them. He wants to disown his parents, and doesn't want to be their
He wasn't thinking when he was doing the things that would get him in trouble. He would just fight people just to fight them or with his parents. It started to get worse because one day he came home and was going into his parents things and saw 3 tickets. He was confused because there is 4 people in his family. Then right after that he found the unwound papers so he ran away from his home.
His early years helped him become a rebellious person.
While he still saw his parents, he lost a part of himself through being arrested and “failing” his family--he was no longer a son, not in terms of
He encounters the external issue of physically disparity with the people that he get along with, and the internal conflicts between being a man with the characteristic that his father modeled for him or being a unique
He was born into a family of six: his parents, a younger brother, and older sister, a younger sister, and himself. He was born a very sickly child, with asthma and all. Growing up, he loved education, even though he
Though throughout his whole life he has been treated differently because he is in fact different. He is taller, stronger, smarter, etc. Even though they have always held him back he still wished to fit in. Now he has just found out that the society in which he always wished to fit into, is not what he has always thought it to be. That the society in which he was raised is wrong.
He explains before how he was close to his stepfather and even considered him to be his real father. Not only did he refrain from keeping his grades up and doing good in school, but he deliberately started doing wrong. For example, “I snatched purses. I shoplifted. I even robbed a petty drug dealer once.”
Brainwashed by the evils of war, he comes to despise what he once loved, the people of his country. Family values and future aspirations
Those children who grow up in rough neighborhood tend to have social and health-related
You know, born in a slum. Mother dead since he was nine. He lived for a year and a half in an orphanage when his father was serving a jail term for forgery. That's not a very happy beginning. He's a wild, angry kid, and that's all he's ever been.
He doesn’t fit into their society and has no way of knowing how to fit in. He has no companion, except his mom, and was prone to anger and indiscriminate violence.
He’s been told how he has no value by his parents,which emotionally impacted his confidence and self
Makyaa has peers who have a positive and pro-social influence, but she reported since moving to Newport News with her father, she has mostly “stayed to myself.” Makyaa currently has no delinquent peers. She reported she entertains herself by being on her smartphone and watching television. Her father also reported this to be the case. There are indications that Makyaa 's emulation of her delinquent peers is limited, and she seldom goes along with their negative influences.