d also be considered.Craig seemed to have a loving and supportive family. His dad was a real trip. His ideas about how to handle certain situations were a bit far-fetched, but he meant well. Because there was no indication of what age the kids in the movie were, it's hard to comment on how the parents should have advised their kids. I do know that quite a few of the kids' actions were questionable, even illegal. For example, if these kids were minors they would all be considered unruly. All the kids in the movie were disobedient, smoked pot and acted in ways their parents should have been responsible to control. Both of Craig's parents worked, which left the kids unsupervised the majority of the time. Some of the parents in the movie also set terrible examples for their kids. Smokey's mom locked him out of the house so she could have sex with her male friends. She also got high and disregarded her parental responsibility to her kids.Although the area where Craig and his friends lived didn't look like what we might picture a ghetto to look like in our minds, it was still a ghetto. Poverty and other social issues make it what it is...a very depressing and frustrating place to like. Because of all the negative ways of life including crime, violence, gangs, drugs and all the other things I've referred to in this paper, I would conclude this would not be the kind of lifestyle I would choose to live. Unfortunately, many of the people that live under these conditions don't have a choice. They are most often born into these situations or faced with dealing with them because of financial struggle or lack of resources to change their ways of life. We can consider ourselves fortunate to not have to deal with these kinds of problems on a daily basis. That is not to say that ALL people in the ghetto stay there. There are some who work hard and get the education or training they need to escape this kind of lifestyle. Where there's wi...
