My GINS book, Freedom Writers Diary, is a tale about various kids who encounter racism, violence, bad education and poverty on a day to day basis. Almost all the kids in this story come from broken homes, and more often than less, are barely scraping by. One kid and her family are evicted. Another doesn't have money for the hospital and yet another boy doesn’t have enough money to get his brother a lawyer. Through the entire book, we encounter poverty, whether that's in the books that they read or the kids themselves. Almost none of the kids can afford stuff like laptops, and video games and stuff like that. Instead they get racism, violence and the sorts. Usually the kids don't seem to care about the latest fad, or brand name items. They don’t go out of their to wear stuff like that because no one cares (or so it seems in the book). On Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, safety is second on the pyramid, and that is something that a lot of these kids are missing. There is lots of gang violence and racist violence, which is not safe. This disrupts the whole hierarchy and for the kids that are safe, they usually are missing some other aspect of the hierarchy. Some of them are made fun of everyday, and almost all of the kids think that they are stupid. Teachers and adults have been telling them that their unteachable, or stupid, so they have no self esteem, and think that they can't really amount to anything. So at least one kid doesn't have one of those needs fulfilled, and many have mutiple not fulfilled. I think is partly why there values are different than someone who has all or most of their needs fulfilled. They have a way different quality of life then the Americans we hear about on the media.
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