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Ethnography Draft

Ethnography: There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz

Chloe Routhier

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction

Works of literature use language creatively to depict human experiences and relationships with the environment. In the story, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz , there are notable articulation to human experiences and relationship depicted through characters such as Lafayette, Pharaoh Rivers, and LaJoe Rivers. In summary, the novel includes historical, temporal, and place settings accommodating the life of two boys and their family in Chicago, addressing fundamental human experiences including family, love, care, violence, growing up, persistence, luck, success, justice, the law, and community dynamics. Thus, the story, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz addresses fundamental human experiences through characters and settings.

Population and Social Location

There is a fundamental Analysis of the Characters Lafeyette, Pharaoh Rivers, and LaJoe Rivers, as contributing to major concerns in the story. The two characters, Lafayette, and Pharaoh Rivers are the epitome of immigrants and their life stories, addressing fundamental themes addressed in the text. Similarly, LaJoe Rivers their mother is an atypical symbol of family, love, and care. Addressing such issues will be underpinning the ethnographic study.

Notably, the text describes how the families in Chicago through Lafayette, Pharaoh Rivers, and LaJoe Rivers embrace love, family, and care. Furthermore, there is a comparison and contrast of how different families in Chicago acknowledge and promote family, love, and care.

As an ethnographic study approach, the viewing of the text through observing, comparing, and contrasting how Lafayette and Pharaoh life in the public housing complex in Chicago contribute to the development of cognitive, language, and socioeconomic factors are presented in the story, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz. Additionally, the tracing of the Chicago neighborhood and setting and impact of Lafayette and Pharaoh’s lifestyle, academic, and social accommodating is underpinned. For example, family, community, and neighborhood impacted Lafayette and Pharaoh’s Characters and behaviors including accommodating, survival, and thriving in the place and time setting.

Fundamental human experiences such as persistence, luck, and success are trials to the overall productivity and survival of human beings. Similarly, the story, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz describes how Lafayette and Pharaoh’s Story relates to persistence, luck, and success. Additionally, there is a comparison and contrasting an ethnographic approach leading to success in school and life is presented by Lafayette and Pharaoh in Chicago

History and Political Economy

Justice and law, accommodate ethical and legal principles that create eco-existence in a society. In the story, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz, there is a description of how gangs in the neighborhood of Chicago impacts law and order, by presenting significant examples from the main characters. For instance, Henry Horner Homes, the neighborhood and the Chicago community crime rates impact law enforcement and policing roles. Outlining the foundation of the community and policing department in dealing with gangs is a critical aspect that accommodates an observational and ethnographic approach.

Cultural Traditions

Finally, community and society dynamics and diversity are critical for ethnographic study. In the story, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz, there is a critical presentation on the dynamic in families, groups, communities, accommodating immigrants, habitats, creating a precise comparison and contrast through characters and settings. Notably, there is a Horner Homes in the neighborhood and the Chicago community’s social, economic, political, and cultural differences. Horner Homes, the neighborhood, the Chicago community and the characters (Lafayette, Pharaoh Rivers, and LaJoe Rivers,) sociocultural concerns. Thus, the concern of dynamics and diversity has precise elaboration in the text.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Kotlowitz, A. (1991). There is No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America. New York: Doubleday

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