In John E. Wiedman’s, story “Newborn Thrown in the Trash and Dies” is very complex to read, because it is hard to comprehend the shock and sorrow of a newborn being discarded by her teenager mother in a garbage chute of an apartment complex. She is only in the world not even all of fifteen minutes yet her journey down the trash chute seem like eternity. As she is falling pass each floor she begins to wonder about the outcome of her life if she can live beyond these few hours. As she reaches the floor of opinions/facts she wonders about her poverty stricken life. With the lack of an education she will be unable to obtain a better paying job. If she does obtain a job making minimum wage it will be just enough to maintain a life, food and a place for shelter. She wonders if there is anything that can be done to change her economic outcome. As she gets older more than likely she will suffer and will be likely to develop health issues. If she does have children she wonders if there will be a heartfelt emotions of being inferior, hopelessness and power that will it is passed on to the next generation. …show more content…
She believes she doesn’t know any better and accepts her fatal death. I feel this is the only connection she has with her mother. Whatever grief, pain and isolation this young mother had experienced can’t change her consequences, but it allows them both to feel what she is feeling or have gone through. She is not blaming her or making excuses to understand what influences and control have affected her