Tom Waldron's The Wire

The TV series “The Wire” is a production that has been criticized for the violent language of its characters and scenes. Nevertheless, I personally like the way its producer portraits the life of one neighborhood in Baltimore, filled with crime, corruption, and a deficit of education. Between all the visible downside aspects found here, one that definitely pops out is the vicious cycle of crime. How the young follow the path of the older repeatedly because there is no other option. The so-called system that manipulates everything, the school, the shelters, the police officers makes it difficult to find an exit, an escape to a different life. Throughout the story, we see how this system obligates the characters to change their lives to be able
Without a doubt, he was smart and loyal to his friends. But the most important trait that characterized Michael was how he was a responsible and parental figure to his little brother, Bug. As the author of the article The Foundation of a Free Society, which criticized the system, Tom Waldron says, “Students couldn’t stay after school, (…) they had to pick up younger siblings and watch over them. Like The Wire’s Michael Lee, they were already parents themselves” (Waldron 3). Michael had to mature fast and make decisions that would benefit him and his brother, who was his major concern. This situation was one of the main factors that drove him to change his escape path to the “slave boat”, the gang’s life. The pushing factor that threw him into Marlo’s hands was once his stepfather, who molested him at an early age, reappears in the story. For instance, in episode eight, there is a drastic change in Michael’s personality, he is afraid of what can happen now that this man is back into his life. He couldn’t count on his mother because she was submerged in her drug addiction, the system operations were not trustable, and the psychological damage provoked by the person who was supposed to “protect” him was too devastating to let it