As a former young offender whose life changes after being a part of a group home, Reef has to overcome his own nature, having to decide between what the easiest decision is and what the right decision is. This is shown after a politician, Ronald Decker, manipulates the media by cutting and showing parts of Reef’s positive eulogy at his youth worker’s funeral to create a negative message, in order to prove, with false evidence, that Reef’s former group home, North Hills, is “failing to meet its mandate [and] is merely a rest stop for low-lifes [sic] on the way to becoming hardened criminals” (Aker 136). This results in a change in Reef’s personality, changing from a positive to a negative attitude. The hatred in Reef finally overcomes him when