The Importance Of Life In Flavio's Home

In “Flavio’s Home” the home life is beyond awful. The lives of everyone in the slums is just poor and miserable, they have no money and no clean supplies to live on. In this essay I will tell you about the living and health situations, water and food supply, and how the slums have changed. It is a shame because these people live like this day in and day out for their whole lives and it never changes. “I’ve never lost my fierce grudge against poverty. It is the most savage of all human afflictions, claiming victims who can’t mobilize their efforts against it, who often lack strength to digest what little food they scrounge up to survive. It keeps growing, multiplying, spreading like a cancer.” (Parks 1) Even in today’s world, there are so many people living in poverty. It has not changed at all, in fact it has moved all the country. The health and living situations in Catacumba are disturbing when you realize how people live everyday. For one, they live in shacks that are falling apart. They have holes in the floors for their bathroom. Then their waste just goes down the mountainside. They have floors and ceilings that are rotted and caving in. They do not have
The slums I think have become more violent than they used to be in the story of “Flavio’s Home”. There are more riots and fights between officers and citizens. When the World Cup was coming up, the Police Force had used tear gas and rubber bullets to remove residents from their homes to try to make the place looks cleaner. They just left all those people homeless. But some residents did not take this lightly, they put a fight and they fought hard. The drug trafficking has increased incredibly over the years. It has caused many gun fights between civilians and the police. Murder rates have also increased. Rio De Janeiro has always been down hill because of so many slums but it now being taken over by drugs and