Violence In Romulus's Death Of His Father

As an infant, Romulus endures the absence of his parents greatly; succeeding the demise of his father, his mother takes to remarrying. Although he visits his mother, he chooses to live with his grandparents. He knows of no life but one of penury; he owns very little clothing and has a limited availability of food stock at home. As is a common practice for children, he begins to work to support his family financially ‘…children contributed to the maintenance of their families…’ [Page 2]. Despite his passion for learning, he is unable to go to secondary school due to a failure in the punctual arrival of his scholarship application. Romulus is a victim of violence by his ‘habitually drunken uncle’ and therefore flees his hometown at age thirteen