Homless Alone Research Paper

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500,000 people in the us are homless alone. If stories were real, then roger would be one of those people.I will have three reasons suppourting the claim that roger has no family. The three reasons are, he would resort to stealing, he said it and he looks beat up (messy/dirty).

My first peice of evidence that roger is alone is that he would resort to stealing. In the story he tries to steal Mrs. Washington purse to support himself because no one is making money with a job because he does not have anyone to live with. And he was going to use the money for shoes which could mean no one taught him priorities on what to buy.

The second peice of evidence I have is that he said he lived alone. In the story, Mrs. Washington mentioned that he had

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