They are being hum iliat ed because t hey are being t hrown aw ay by their own family. The Am erican societ y underest imat ed on fost er care.
David, I don’t know why it is, but for som e reason a great deal of individuals look down on fost er care TLB: 124.
The social st atus of societ y is divided int o three: rich, m iddle and poor. In t he side of social st at us, most of t he social st at us of the
charact ers are m iddle. It can be seen from t he job of t he charact ers, such as secret ary, school nurse, t he principal M r Hansen, t he t eacher
M iss Woods, M r Ziegler and M rs. W oodw orth, police officer Sm it h, firem an St ephen Joseph, et c.
M y fat her, St ephen Joseph, support ed his fam ily as a firem an, working in the heart of San Francisco ACCI: 15.
In the side of social relat ionship, the charact ers have a family relat ionship because it is mentioned in the novels about father, m other,
brother, grandm other, aunt and uncle. They live as nuclear family t hat consist s of a m arried couple w ith a number of children. They don’t st ay
w ith ext ended family like grandmother, uncle and aunt. The relat ionship am ong family m embers w as go od before. They
lived happily. Then, t he at titut e of David’s mother changed as she frequently consum ed alcohol. The w orst t hing was t hat David had no
longer becom e a part of the fam ily. He w as not allow ed to have eat en t oget her w it h fam ily, to have sleep in a nice bed, t o have a rest in
bathroom , or to have fun in picnic. He w as nobody, he w as called it . You are a nobody An It You are nonexist ent You are a
bast ard child I hat e you and I wish you w ere dead Dead ” ACCI: 82
In addition, t he relat ionship bet ween David’s fam ily and neighbor w as not good. M other seldom visit ed neighbor. She and her children
spent almost t heir t ime at home. M oreover, t he people w ere individual w ho only minded their ow n home.
M other rarely spent much t im e with neighbors ACCI: 72 David also didn’t have friends at school. No one want ed t o play
w ith him because he w as smell and never changed cloth. He also had ever caught in the act as a t hief. He w as out cast .
At school I w as a t ot al out cast . No other kid w ould have anyt hing t o do with m e ACCI: 36.
2. Economic Aspect
The decade of t he 1920s that was as t he Golden Tw ent ies w as charact erized by w idespread prosperit y. During t he prosperit y of t he
Golden tw ent ies, m any Americans made spent money w it h ease. Aft er enjoying the Golden Tw enties, Am erican had a terrible sit uat ion that ’ s
called the Great Depression. The Great Depression w as a sever e w orldwide economic depression in t he decade preceding World War II
and it w as st art ed in about 1939 and ended 1945. The book A M an Named Dave st at es about t he great depression.
David’s grandm ot her rose her children in t he great depression without a husband. Her husband passed aw ay. She felt difficult to raise t w o
children. Therefore, t he mother w as grown by t ight w ay. Okay, I t hought , m aybe Grandmother w as overbearing.
When her husband passed away, leaving her t o raise t w o children in the middle of a depression, Grandm ot her
had to be st ern. AM ND: 196-197
In A M an Named Dave, it is also st at ed t hat America faced a st at ew ide recession in 1978. It w as difficult to find a job.
Jobs right now are scarce w it h t he recession and all, AM ND: 228
3. Political Aspect
The Unit ed St at es is a federal const itutional republic in w hich t he President , Congress, and judiciary share pow ers reserved t o the
national governm ent , and the federal governm ent shares sovereignt y
w ith the st at e government s. Politic is divided int o t w o nam ely dom est ic
policy and foreign policy. Domest ically, Am erican policy is broken down int o three: legislat ive, execut ive, and judiciary. Foreignly, U.S. ‘ s ideology
is capit alism and m et hod of the dist ribut ion is imperialism. However, American foreign policy is illust rated in t he book A M an
Named Dave . A Child Called it and The Lost Boy do not m ention political
aspect . The political aspect ment ioned is only foreign policy not domest ic policy. It is st at ed about Saddam Husein’s invasion to Kuw ait
in which Am erica involved in this war. Am erica supposed t o help t he w orld t o solve t he cont rovercial.
In August 1990, Saddam Hussein’ s invasion of Kuwait shift ed m y priorit ies. AM ND: 216
4. Religious Aspect
The charact ers in the t rilogy are m ost ly Cat holics. Cat holics believe t hat there is only one God and argue t hat he has revealed him self as t he
t rinit y. They hold the Old Test am ent as t heir scripture w hile Prot est ant m ade som e changes from t he Old Test ament to the New Test ament .
Som e Christ ians believe in the original scripture, t he Old Test am ent . Therefore, the charact ers in t his t rilogy believe in Cat holic.
Four days lat er, on a foggy M onday m orning, I parked M r Turnbough’s car in front of t he sam e Cat holic church Ron,
St an, and I had briefly at t ended w it h our aunt years ago as preschoolers. AM ND: 97
Besides, David w as religious for having a bible. The bible is
m ent ioned as the place to keep his brother’s let t er. For now all I could do w as replace m y brot her’s let t er in m y
Bible, and pray for t he best . AM ND: 121 M oreover, David’s family celebrat ed Christ m as since the Holy
days of Christ ians are Christ mas, East er, New Year, Pent ecost , Saint s’
