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The Coldest Winter Ever Analysis

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In the novel, while there really isn’t any historical background to the novel there is a heavy cultural aspect. The cultural background highly relates to the culture and lifestyle of the urban community and what many experience today. I would say the main character had to experience having to deal with her father being taken away and the empire that he built crumble around her. She has to come to terms that the weight her name use to carry in the community is no longer there. Many individuals experience their families being torn apart just like hers was. This book is set in the 80’s and 90’s era in the ghettos of New York. Which in somewhat is similar to days environment with similar or more gang violence and drug usage. The values revealed …show more content…

Has to survive when her way of life is not only taken away from her but she has now have to try to gain control to the new circumstances at her door. As the novel show and examines that the main characters life is not contemporary as most audiences believe. Most people would depict a typical “ghetto” girl as ratchet and uncultured, while she is more than just a product of her environment. It shows the real side, and struggles and how they adapt when face with controversy.
I was particularly drawn to the author’s way, of writing because it was not only a great read. It showed the true depiction of what life in the ghetto is really like. Instead of the false representation from Hollywood producers who use stereotypes as their information source. The author made me feel that this, was a story from the eyes of an actual person. She took her experiences from growing up in New York to her move as a child to Englewood, NJ where she saw everything from drug abuse to gang …show more content…

Where the man who provides and the mother is the homemaker. As for the explicit it is clear showing of sex, drugs, and hardships of the lives of the occupants of the ghettos. She also showed that the government put in little to no effort to help the citizens in need.
Throughout the story, the challenge of social and economic order changes drastically. In the beginning you can see how our main character has all she will ever need. She has friends who are loyal, ever material she could want, and not a care in the world. As we progress through the novel all comes to the halt once her father becomes incarcerated, her world crumbles at her feet. So now without the aid of her father and her mom uneducated and unemployed. No one is feared of her family’s “name”, she has to make her own way in life without the luxuries provided to her in the

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