Analysis Of Scott Bransford's Camping For Their Lives

Today is the big day, but your nervous and worried, how will you survive in society after being in jail for 10 years. You have no job, no money, no car, and no place to lay your head at night. Your being released with only what you had in your pockets when you were arrested. There isn’t even a program out there to help reaccumulate you back to life in the free world. Scott Bransford touches on a huge problem in the world in his story about “Camping for Their Lives”. He begins with a young couple who is newly married, and can’t afford a mortgage or a lease, they were in a crowded shelter for a while, but were unable to share the same bed, after a while, that became discouraging. They found a slice of land beside the Union Pacific Railroad tracks and there they built their new home with scrap wood and a tarp for a roof. …show more content…
The author goes on to state even the strong can become weak. The author used first had stories of victims he visited in a well-known tent city called taco flat. He was able to effectively prove his point in proving there are not enough resolutions to the homeless problem we have in our country. Moreover, he was able to show that while some of the victim’s stories were similar, he was also able to show some were very different and unique. He states Makeshift dwellings may not be the dream homes of yesteryear, but they are simple, affordable, and sustainable in their use of salvaged material (Bransford, 2009, p.