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Shameless By Lois Tyson Essay

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Escape to Riches To be a billionaire, one must work like a billionaire. However, nowadays, those words don’t mean anything since everything ranging from clothes to essential goods is excessively expensive that no person has the chance to become rich just from working. It’s rather understanding the circumstances one is situated in. In Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson discusses the meaning of the class system and how it affects those in each part of the system. To understand Tyson’s ideas is to explore two different sources that demonstrate how understanding where they fall into the class system punishes them in their separate situations. Understanding the class system begins with its origins of it. As Tyson describes it, it's based on ideologies …show more content…

Living in an underclass neighborhood in Chicago, the characters (family members) have to find ways to make money while some of them are trying to pursue an education. The youngest child, Liam, is one of them that is getting an education. However, has the privilege of receiving a private education and made a valuable friend at the school. Season 8 Episode 5 “The (Mis)Education of Liam Fergus Beircheart Gallagher”, showed the friendship between Liam and his new friend which began with them getting in a Range Rover. As Liam stares inside the car, he questions the screens being TVs which is a common question that someone from a low-income family would ask but for the wealthy friend, it’s not. During the next scene, they are seen in the friend's home, but it was not just any ordinary house as this was a breathtaking mansion that had different features in each room, including big bathrooms. Every person had their respective room compared to Liam’s home where everyone shared a room and had to fight for the bathroom in the mornings. As Liam is looking at the house he sees the difference between a family which Tyson refers to “as members of the upper class and “aristocracy” that are economically privileged: they enjoy luxurious lifestyles” (53). While getting a ride home, the friend’s nanny becomes worrisome as they approach the neighborhood since there was violence happening and advice Liam to stay in the car while Liam chooses not to listen since he isn’t fazed by it. It is an example of Tyson’s explanation of class systems in America that “members of the underclass and the lower class are economically oppressed” (53). For a child like Liam, the violence, robbing, etc. of a low-income neighborhood isn’t frightening compared to a person that lives in a secure neighborhood. The next

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