The residents of the Bathtub are amazingly self-reliant on themselves. They build their own homes, they provide their own version of education, they feed themselves, and they look out for one another. Applying the ecosystems perspective there are a couple of strengths. As well as downfalls to their way of life. The members of the Bathtub have established relatedness and competence (Lesser and Pope, 2011, p. 22). The residents look out for each other tremendously; they are interdependent on one another. When Wink makes his escape with Hushpuppy, she makes sure everyone else from the Bathtub is alerted, the day after the storm ends Wink makes it his duty to search for those he know stayed in town, and they work together to get task done to ensure
