Essay Analysis: The Starving Criminal by by Theodore Dalrymple
In the essay “The Starving Criminal” which written by Theodore Dalrymple illustrates the rise of the malnourish criminals numbers, the food poverty and the lack of authority which are the two reasons cause the tendency of the malnourish youth. Dalrymple emphasizes the lacks of self restrain which’s referring to the view of humanism on Conservatives through three main points: family relation, positive traditions and self discipline.
Conservatism is often defined as the ideology that base on this three principle: resistance to change, appreciation for the tradition and institutions of one’s culture and society, and a preference for the security and comfort of the actual world over the insecurities and dangers of future possible worlds.[1] In addition, other conservatives call it “the political philosophy of imperfection” [2]which due to the conservatives’ view it means that people are imperfect, we’re not only as genius as we think we are but also tend to be selfish. In the essay “the starving criminal”, Dalrymple mentions one of the prisoners who is a drugged burglar, the young man goes to the prison with the purpose of recovering his health and release his addiction in heroin. He doesn’t eat except the chips and chocolate. This ‘thin’ and ‘malnourished’ man is living in a low standard life, and he has no real concept about a father because he never meets his father. In addition, he has “a relationship that required the frequent intervention of the police to prevent its premature end through murder”[3] with his mother. There’s a dialoged between Dalrymple and the young man which demonstrates the family relation of the young man.
I asked the young man whether his mother had ever cooked for him.
“Not since my stepfather arrived. She would cook for him, like, but not for us children.”
I asked him what they—he and his brothers and sisters—had eaten and how they had eaten it.
“We’d just eat whatever there was,” he said. “We’d look for something whenever we was
Conservatism is often defined as the ideology that base on this three principle: resistance to change, appreciation for the tradition and institutions of one’s culture and society, and a preference for the security and comfort of the actual world over the insecurities and dangers of future possible worlds.[1] In addition, other conservatives call it “the political philosophy of imperfection” [2]which due to the conservatives’ view it means that people are imperfect, we’re not only as genius as we think we are but also tend to be selfish. In the essay “the starving criminal”, Dalrymple mentions one of the prisoners who is a drugged burglar, the young man goes to the prison with the purpose of recovering his health and release his addiction in heroin. He doesn’t eat except the chips and chocolate. This ‘thin’ and ‘malnourished’ man is living in a low standard life, and he has no real concept about a father because he never meets his father. In addition, he has “a relationship that required the frequent intervention of the police to prevent its premature end through murder”[3] with his mother. There’s a dialoged between Dalrymple and the young man which demonstrates the family relation of the young man.
I asked the young man whether his mother had ever cooked for him.
“Not since my stepfather arrived. She would cook for him, like, but not for us children.”
I asked him what they—he and his brothers and sisters—had eaten and how they had eaten it.
“We’d just eat whatever there was,” he said. “We’d look for something whenever we was