Factors In Dr. Sampson Davis, And Rameck's The Pact

Factors in THE PACT In The Pact by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt, Three teenagers who grew up in community with poverty and violent dedicate themselves for changing their lives and becoming successful. Rameck is the one who can be easiest to succeed and gets most benefits. Although he had gotten troubles with his families, friends or education and almost broke their dream, there still are several factors bring up his success. Especially these factors include institutional support, luck and Mentors. These factors helped him throughout their educational experience and finally achieved his goals. First of all, institutional support might be the factor which benefit Rameck the most. Obviously education is the signification way to make them succeed, particularly for this boy from poor neighborhood. His dream could be end by the financial crisis. Luckily they got huge help from the EOP( Educational Opportunity Program) that made their life a lot more easier. According to the PACT, “[Rameck] thought to …show more content…
Rameck is a kid with both positive and negative characteristic. He was smart and got higher grade than any other students, but he prefered to hand out with gangsters and bad guys during high school. One day his teacher Miss Ransom expostulated him that a smart person should not let wrong people impact himself. As she said, “Don’t let wrong group of friends influence you.(58)” This quote was a prediction to Rameck’s future because he really got in trouble by his negative groups of friends. Miss Ransom was the most trustable teacher to Rameck, later on Rameck told to her about his trouble with law. She played a role of Mentor in Rameck’s life. In fact, she warned Rameck because she knew that Rameck’s negative friends would bring him trouble. However, Rameck couldn’t listen her precept at that time. And he would have to learn it in a hard way in the