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In the Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, I discovered to be inspirational to all the children living in an unpleasant environment with bad influences to demonstrate it is possible to get out of those living standards. Sonny growing up with his father abusing him lead him to a path of destruction and and not knowing what is right from wrong. Growing up around bad influences only encouraged his behaviors because it is seen as a sense of power to others in the community and knowing who has control. The good that came out of the careless behaviors was being sent to the reform school where he learned that there is a way out of that lifestyle. He mentions at the reform school how he felt that there was a place already there for him and
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