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How The Social Constructed In There Are No Children Here

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In Alex Kotlowitz’s book, There Are No Children Here, he explains the challenges and hardships a family faces growing up in the Henry Horner projects through social construct. Throughout the book, the social constructs are based off social class, discrimination, poverty, and social location. Due to where ones family is raised or comes from, their location influences ones decisions, in which may cause them to lead a life of crime. My beliefs, after completing the book, were reaffirmed. Those living in a social class below poverty, have a harder time “making it” then someone who lives on a nicer side of town.
Throughout the book, social location plays a big role in how the social construct is developed, categorizing those into such lower class. …show more content…

I don’t have nothing to worry about round here.” Its miserable witnessing the fact he feels it’s an easier life living in jail. Living in the projects for him he feels unsafe, and insecure. Terrance always tried to convince the boys to stay away from gangs and the violence that comes with it. Because of Lafayette being from the inner city, …show more content…

Lajoe, herself, was treated disrespectfully because of the prejudgment formed about the people living in the inner city. “There are a lot of people in the projects who say they’re not going to do drugs, that they’re not going to drop out, and that they won’t be on the street, but they’re doing it now. Never say never.” This quote only proves the myths and rumors about those who grow up in the projects are true, proving people who come from the inner city are of the lower minorities and are short lived. On the other hand, Pharoah, the younger of the two previous mentioned brothers, chooses to avoid the violence and crime leading lifestyle. He enjoys school, he puts all his focus towards his education. Lajoe tries her best to get to the boys understanding that education may be their only shot at someday, somehow getting out of the projects. Although he focuses so much on his school work, there are no such thing as educational classes promised to the youths that will in the long run benefit them in the slightest of ways. This is not only

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