Out In The Cold

“You think I want this life? You think I want this life?....I hate this life,” (Out in the Cold). A man named Jerry said this when John Koepke and J.D. O’Brien interviewed him on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Koepke and O’Brien were making a documentary about the homeless called Out in the Cold based off of real interviews with several homeless people as they spent a week in winter living in shelters or on the streets. They created this documentary to create awareness for the homeless and to create sympathy for them. Many times Americans look down on people who are homeless, but most of the time the homeless do not have any choice. Being homeless is not their fault because of certain circumstances in their life. These circumstances are: a loss of a job, unable
Many times people who end up homeless do not grow up in the best of homes. Most of the time they do not have very stable homes or they were born homeless. For example, Monty became homeless when he was thirteen or fourteen years old because his home-life was so terrible that he would not be living if he had not left.
Of course, some people could say the reason they are homeless is because they are lazy. This could be true, but the majority of the time it is not. I could add personal stories about homeless people who have actually searched and tried to make a better life for themselves, but they cannot.
There are many causes for why people are homeless. These include: loss of a job, cannot pay their bills, or their parents abandoned them. If people do not realize this and keep shaming these people, then that is their fault because these people have great insights and stories to share that they would have missed out on. I will end with a quote from a homeless person from one of my sources to show some sympathy for these people and to show that they really want to make a better life for