Case Study Of Sucker's Becoming A Tough Kid

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Do you think that Sucker’s becoming a tough kid is a good thing? Yes and my reasoning is that first Sucker will be able to be more effective in the workplace b since he is used to being yelled at and he is able to just sit there and take it. Also since he Sucker talked about wanting to move to Alaska his traits of being q tough will be very useful.

My first reason that he will be more productive in the workplace since he can be yelled at and just shrug it off. I believe that he will be more productive a regular employee seeing how Sucker can get yelled at by his overseer and just shrug it off.This is opposed to a regular employee whose production rate falls dramatically after getting at. The text told me this by showing the way Sucker handles
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I believe this will be helpful because Alaska is a very rural and desolate place where there is not a lot a people. This is where it comes in handy to be tough because there isn’t a lot of people there to help you.. Also Alaska is a very cold place and this is where being tough helps a lot, seeing how you have to be tough to handle the cold. You also have to be tough seeing how you either have to hunt to grow your becuase there aren't very many grocery stores around. Another reason you would want to be tough in Alaska is that you have to be able to build you home because there aren’t any house-builders around. I got the idea of Sucker being tough because he constantly stays loyal to Pete no matter how bad he gets hurt, which shows loyalty and loyalty is a very tough thing to have especially if it includes be physically …show more content…
But from another perspective of mine I realized that if I was in Suckers situation I would not of turned out the same as him. First it amazes me that Sucker isn't depressed because of his parents being killed in a wreck. Then after after all of that trauma he has to deal with a high school kid who doesn't give Sucker a single break and takes terrible advantage of him knowingly. So for one thing i can faithfully say that Sucker is a very special kid to go through all of that and still turn out this good of a

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