They All Just Went Away Analysis

1: This story is about a child named Nina, who had her father, Toney, in prison and lived with her mother, Lolli, and her four younger siblings. She had uncles, cousins, her grandfather, and her father all in prison, prison was common on both sides of the family. All the people that surrounded her were from the streets, and this is what she was learning, the streets. In her neighborhood, while she played outside, her parents would be hanging out with their friends and smoking around the children. The types of celebration they would attend were, the baby showers of young teenagers, and prisoners going away and coming-home parties. Both parents were from the streets and they lived in the ghetto. Getting pregnant at a young age ran in the family, Lolli’s mother had her first child …show more content…
Home and family life, these are the first influences we have, we follow our parents footsteps, having both parents helps a lot, and sometimes we don’t need both parents, one parent can do better than two in some cases. Family in a healthy environment, work together, help each other, set good examples for the younger ones to follow, and try to be better and learn from mistakes. Home and family life affected their lives the most, the father missing, most members of their family had been in jail or are still in jail. They never had a stable place, Lolli stayed with her mom a while, then slept in the couch in Toney’s house with Nina, back to her mom’s, after that lived in a homeless shelter with her 4 baby’s, and finally then lived with her new boyfriend. Everyone around this child’s life had been in prison or did drugs, which is what they learn. The child was always arguing because she wanted her father, and the mom quickly adding another man to the child’s life really made it more difficult. The child was always in defense, she didn’t want another man in their lives, and it was too