7 Kids 1 Apartment What Poverty Means To This Teen Summary

Learning how to face your hardships and succeed They are negative situations that can compel an impact in your life and could teach you to become better than what you are and push you to succeed in life. Tragedy and hardships act as sources of motivation for betterment and perseverance. Teenagers often have to endure hardship and tragedies that motivate them to better themselves. In the article 7 kids 1 apartment What Poverty Means to This Teen by Courtney stein a young boy named Jairo Gomez lives with his mother and 6 siblings in tiny apartment, he explains how he had to grow up fast for his age to help his mother. He quotes how his having to work 13 hour shifts and making food deliveries on his bike just to help his mother. Jairo has also explained how he failed all of his classes because he was missing school to be at home and take care of his younger siblings. Facing these hardships, it was an eye opener to him and instead of continuing to suffer in school he deiced to have a talk with his mom and explain to her that he wants to be able to graduate. Jairo pushed himself more and more to overcome his tragedy.

Sotomayor tells her life story by Robert Barnes the article explains how she overcomes her disease, distant mother, and alcoholic father as well as become more independent. Sotomayor explains how she had to develop self-cultivation and teach herself because she could not depend on her parents. She quotes how she choose to see the positive in the negative situation she was experiencing. Instead of seeing the negative she tried to see the positive and question how she could learn from it and better herself. Negative situations do not always need a negative reaction that occur to