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A Boy's Duty, Child Homelessness - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "“Child homelessness has reached epidemic proportions in America,” said Carmela DeCandia, NCFH director. “But the nation hasn’t really prioritized family and child homelessness. … How are we going to target resources if we’re not on the same page about the size of the problem?”"
      - I chose this piece of evidence because it shows how the "perople in power" in the US are not prioritizing homeless children and fmilies, and how it would greatly benefit the population if they did.
      - Universal Understanding: Sometimes it is necessary for people in power to step in and help underprivileged people.
- - - - Universal Understanding: Being separated from your family makes life harder.
      - "I sit up, knowing full well this isn't how he treats the other customers. They get served coffee at the regular price. "I paid for my coffee. Two cents extra. And I gave her the tip."
      - I chose this piece of evidence because it shows how Zakary is made to pay extra for his coffee because he stays there overnight, due to being homeless. This demonstrates how many homeless teens who are seperated from their families are outcassts wherever they go , and life is harder for them.
- - - - Universal Understanding: It's hard to know what to do with your life without anything to guide you along the way.
      - "Painting that mural was like painting a new life for myself. Six months later and I'm brand-new. I wrote that to my father in a letter. I included the aticle too. He told me to do my duty. To come home and help hime run the farm. Haven't you had enough of the low life? he wrote. Of dragging our family name through the mud?
      - I chose this piece of evidence becuase it shows how Zakary's dad wasn't helping him along the way with deciding what to be in life, he was just pressuring him to do what he did with his life, never actually stopping to think about what Zakary wants himself.