In my previous post, I embedded a video about a young boy describing a day in his life of poverty. In the following scene from the movie the Pursuit of Happiness, based on a true story, a father, played by Will Smith, and his son, played by Jaden Smith, find themselves without a place to spend the night.
Parents do a lot as it is to protect their children and keep them safe, but imagine trying to provide for your child, but having no means of doing so. People living like this feel helpless, they feel like they have no one and nowhere to turn to. If a parent is worried about when their next meal will be, the child is most certainly not going to get as much attention as a typical child would like to have from its parents. A child may get the impression that the parent is purposefully neglecting them. Even in this emotional movie clip one can see how distraught the father is and how snappy he gets when his son asks where they are going. However, the father thinks of a creative way to distract his son from the harsh reality that they are going through. It is so incredible to see how these characters manage to make it through the night. It is so moving to see the father's desperate attempts at keeping anyone from finding him and his son spending the night in a public bathroom. It is a sad sight to see, but this sort of thing happens everyday and we don't even know it. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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