Poverty Narrative Analysis

Education is considered to be an important sign in any success story that we heard of in the world. many people suffered a tough childhood and poor life in their youth and become successful later on their careers because of a good education. In this paper, I will be discussing how gender, race, and class can change the educational experience depending on people's race, class, and gender. I had three interviews with three individuals, the first one is Anthony a nineteen years old African American male, born and raised in California state. On the other side is Jennifer, a twenty-one-year-old Hispanic female, born and raised in Washington state. And finally Steven, Twenty-one years old Asian American homosexual. I did change the names in order to preserve privacy for them. As I stated before, I interviewed the three individuals Steven, Anthony, and Jennifer and I picked the interviews randomly without having the intention to choose. Obviously the similarities are not
Frankly, I do myself agree with that, poverty can cause many serious consequences, especially for young people during their school time. On the other hand, policymakers disagree and argue in the article "The Paradox of Poverty Narratives" said by Gerstl-Pepin (Leon-Guerrero 2008:151). They say that poverty has no effect on the outcomes that students will get in the future (Leon-Guerrero 2008:161) which I do extremely disagree with. Poverty can lead to low grades in most cases, and would lead to a new environment and probably certain friends from the same level as you are. Moreover, friends from the same level as you are can keep you on the same level and sometimes make you even poorer. Youth tends to act like their peers, so in most cases if the majority of your friends have bad grades or they are part of gangs that will probably going to influence you to be like