Is A Hard Life Inherited Analysis

In many cases people that are born in a place where the environment is not best suited for a great outcome, have to fight to get to the top if they manage to stir clear of the many obstacles the horrible environment throws at them. Most people born in poverty usually have a difficult time getting out the circumstances they are in. It’s a fact that people that are born into a decent environment have a greater chance of being successful because they have the resources to succeed in life. The author of the article uses literary devices to demonstrate that the place where a person comes from will have a great effect on the future they would have. In the article “Is a Hard Life Inherited?” by Nicholas Kristof, the author depict the problems …show more content…
He uses his hometown of Yamhill, Oregon a place he calls a “window into the national crisis facing working-class men” (Kristof) to tell the audience he knows firsthand how hard it is to grow up in a town where a person in most likely to end up the same way as the rest of the people. He also writes down what he sees and how the small town is being consume by poverty and drugs like how a known neighbor “died of a heroin overdose” (Kristof) and “a few more young men have disappeared into the maw of prison” (Kristof). In addition, he talks about one of his friends who he sees him as “immensely bright” (Kristof) and how the hard life he had as a child led him to the wrong path in life and has to see his kids fallow in this foot step because he could not provide a better life style. Kristof focuses on the life of his friend and the struggles he had faced throughout his life time of struggles because he did not have the opportunity or the resources to move up in the