Eric And His Sisters Analysis

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Champion of Death A lot of people think that life is easy, but to some it’s the most difficult thing they have to experience. In the story of “Eric and his Sisters”, Eric’s suicide was caused by a number of factors, steaming primarily from his being homeless during his childhood. Eric and his family went through a lot of trials, they dealt with them the best that they could with the resources that they were offered. Eric having to deal with being homeless at such a young age causes a lot of problems throughout his adult hood as well. Eric had a very ruff childhood. He also had a younger sister, Lisette. His mom was a single mother doing the best that she could do since her husband pasted away from a degenerative illness. They at one point were homeless, and Eric saw a lot of things that he shouldn’t have had to witness at his age. Yes, he was young but he was not stupid, he understood everything that was going on around him. He even encountered somethings himself. Even a lady at the church that they attended noticed that how frequently evasive was when he would speak to grownups when they questioned him about things. She thought that maybe he was hiding something because …show more content…
He was paying all his own bills. Eric started selling drugs and he was also using them for his personal use as well. He didn’t a good group of friends they were known as the trouble makers of the town. The cops put a warrant out for his arrest. He later then got arrested for robbing house with his friends. Now we knew where he was getting a good amount of his money from. Eric had learned these ways back in New York when they were homeless, sometimes he wanted things but couldn’t afford it so he would just take it. But he was also a lot younger, so his consequences were a lot more minor then they are now that he is an adult. He went to jail because of it now, it was also a lot more serious now because he was breaking into houses and taking their

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