Why must people be born into situations where they are forced to deal with the cruelest and most awful things? The boundary of race, poverty, and gender affect one’s life and attitude by forcing them to deal with awful things. And it's not because of the attribute itself, but the people around them. How others treat them and act leave a heavy impact on those people who deal with the boundary of race, poverty, and gender. But it's up to them if they overcome it. Things like seeing how happy they could be, how others live, and advantages other people have over them motivate them to overcome those boundaries of race, poverty, and gender. The boundary of race affects one’s life and attitude by forcing them to deal with awful things.
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Things like seeing how others live motivate them to overcome the boundary of poverty. Thank You, M'am is a story about a young boy and how his outlook on life changes after a fateful meeting with an older woman, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. In the story, the young boy attempts to steal the older woman's purse due to his lack of money and his hankering need for a pair of shoes but a lack of funds. From this, we know the boy is in poverty. The Woman, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington, stops the boy before he is able to run off. Instead of turning the boy into the police, like he thought was going to happen, she takes him home and shows him trust. She talks to him and tells him about how she used to live, and how it was not good. In the story, it says "But the boy took care to sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner other eye, if she wanted to. He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now." In this extract, it is able to tell that the woman left an influence on him. After seeing how she lived and how she trusted him, he did not want to turn to stealing things to overcome poverty. This woman's influence and life motivated the boy to overcome the boundary of poverty and all the awful things that come with
Things like seeing how others live motivate them to overcome the boundary of poverty. Thank You, M'am is a story about a young boy and how his outlook on life changes after a fateful meeting with an older woman, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. In the story, the young boy attempts to steal the older woman's purse due to his lack of money and his hankering need for a pair of shoes but a lack of funds. From this, we know the boy is in poverty. The Woman, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington, stops the boy before he is able to run off. Instead of turning the boy into the police, like he thought was going to happen, she takes him home and shows him trust. She talks to him and tells him about how she used to live, and how it was not good. In the story, it says "But the boy took care to sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner other eye, if she wanted to. He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now." In this extract, it is able to tell that the woman left an influence on him. After seeing how she lived and how she trusted him, he did not want to turn to stealing things to overcome poverty. This woman's influence and life motivated the boy to overcome the boundary of poverty and all the awful things that come with