Our Time John Edger Wideman Analysis

You can do it Naysayers might say one is or should be a product of one’s environment. The story “Our Time” show otherwise. John Edger Widemen shows that just because you grow up without two parents, and not all of the support from two parents, that one can be as successful as they could want to be. Some say if one comes from money one will have money, grow up with nothing be nothing forever. There are 2 prime examples in the story that shows both are valid points one cane be a product of their environment but one can also make it out of their bad situations and make something of themselves. Growing up in a single parent household or a household where ones parents who did not finish school one might not have everything they need to be successful. Some parents do not know how to put their kids on the path of success, not knowing how to continue their offspring in a higher education after high school. Not knowing what a GPA is or even how to sign up for a SAT or ACT. Typically the children who grow up in these environments do not peruse a higher education. John’s brother in the story proves some of this theory to be true in some points. Robbie was the mom’s favorite child, but ended up being the bad seed. Robbie went
John is a very successful man author and professor of English at Brown University. John grew up in an environment where it was not the best for a child to be growing up in, he made it out of his environment and went on to live a life of a man who is content with himself. Robbie and john come from the same environment same home and they come from the same mother. It all shows that a person can choose their own path and who one is, is not defined by what neighborhood you come from or by how many parents you have in an house hold. Many children grow up and make better of themselves and do what they have to do instead of what others want them to