There are many children who have been subjected to unfavorable circumstances and grown up in cruel environments surrounded by poverty. The credible website UNICEF published an article describing the life of a young boy named Marcell, as mentioned previously, who is growing up in an “post-industrial wasteland” with some of the highest unemployment and crime rates in the county (Coen). Marcell is one of the 14,509,000 million children living in poverty in the United States (“Child Poverty in America”). He lives with his seventy-nine year-old Grandmother, who is living on government assistance and struggles to give her grandson every positive opportunity he deserves. As “one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S.,” Marcell rarely leaves his
