Growing Up Too Fast Analysis

This story starts off with the writer telling a story about how mothers are using their children to get food and money. I like that he started this off like this because he shows how the life of a poor family used to be and in reality still is. He later go on to say that the mom instead of going out to work she rather have her children follow her and beg for money. I like how he goes on to say that if this is how the mom wants to take care of her children then when they grow up some will be theirs while other go and join the Spanish to fight and some maybe will get a job. I do think that he made a good point on that and he does use a little bit of satire so make it so that the reader does understand how serious this is but then they can kind of get a lough out of it. …show more content…
too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast." when he says this he tries to make a point that in his days he saw many women who would rather kill their own child then to be able to be with it and care for it. He points out how the mother would rather pretty much keep what she gets for herself rather than having to share with her child. In the next paragraph he does seem calculations and talks about how many women will have a child how many will leave or kill and then he talks about how many can even provide for their own child. I do see him talking more about how the world that he lives in is more evil then it has any good in it and I think that he might be using a little bit of over exaggerating so that the readers do get to understand what he is trying to