The dirty kid essay

The story is centered on the young land and the dirty boy who lived with his pregnant who was an addict of crack. Also in this region, there are many alter where people go to worship, and there are people who give human sacrifice to these gods. One morning the young lady finds that the dirty boy and his mother have gone and the next day a body of a young boy is found decapitated. The young lady is worried because she thinks that it is the dirty boy who has been killed but later she realizes it was not him and the dirty boy has been given away by his mother. This paper provides an analysis of different events, and themes such as poverty, crime, disorder, drug abuse, defiance, lawlessness that exist in this area of Constituciỏn as depicted in the story The Dirty Boy.

The fact that the boy is very dirty and does not attend school show a high level of neglect from his mother and the local authorities and it shows how bad the situation is in this region. The young lady has a friend known as Lala who is, and the interesting thing about her is that she decided to change her gender and nationality (Enriquez, 6). When Lala is describing the dirty boy’s mother she says, “I’m not saying anything. But here in the neighborhood, they say she’ll do anything for money — that she goes to witches’ covens, even” (Enriquez, 7) This shows the effects of abject poverty which include crimes immorality. Also when the dirty boy came to the young lady house, she gave him food and took him out to buy ice cream show that the young lady is compassionate but defiant since she stopped living with her parents and he moved in in one of the most dangerous regions in the country.

Finally, the identity of the killed boy was revealed, and the young lady was relieved that it was not the dirty boy (Enriquez, 23). One day she was walking to her house she saw the mother of the dirty boy and they had a confrontation her she almost killed her when she failed to reveal the location of the dirty boy. After releasing her, she admitted that she had given out the dirty boy and the newly born child. The young lady got stressed, and she started reflecting how she fought with her mother when she told her to come back home, and at the moment she thought her mother was right that the area was not safe for her. I would recommend people to read this story because it shades some light on the atrocities that the poor face in the hands of the wealthy or rather the rich.