7/25/2019 CHILDREN of the CITY by Guererro

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CHILDREN OF THE CITY byGUERRERO

SUMMARY

The reason why this fictional story is a

naturalistic one is because it downright shows the

reader how terrible life can be and how bad things

happen to good people. Is it not terrible enough that

a young boy as young as 8 years old losses his

father in a fight for a cause? To top this incident off

the story deprives the young boy of a mother who

had an affair with a man completely different with

his father. In his early age, Victor already

experienced how cruel the world is. He wored as a

newspaper boy in the dangerous street of !venida.

In that dar street he learned how to curse"say bad

words and smoe cigarette because he was

influenced by a group of unmannered teenagers.

He found himself alone in the street# sometimes

being beat up by bullies.

He had to sacrifice his childhood. He lost

the chance of having a bright future when his father

died. He also experienced how mean the city is. !

city flushed with triumphant charity campaigns

where worers were made to sign statements

certifying they received minimum wage, where

millionaire politicians received Holy $ommunion

every %unday, where mothers taught their sons and

daughters the art of begging, where orphans and

children from broen homes slept on pavements

and under darened bridges, and where bes

friends fell out and betrayed one another.

%imply a single mistae of one ignoran

person can give a dominant domino effect to the

lives of people. &eople become the way they are

not because of fate, but they play the cards that life

has dealt to them. The story shows us the way life

turns and how what we become rests upon our

defiance and decisions. This has been a phrase

through the decades but it portrays some ind o

truth.

'es, bad things happen to good people bu

that doesn(t mean that we should idly stand by and

let fate decide what happens to us.