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city flushed with triumphant charity campaigns,

CHILDREN OF THE CITY by GUERRERO

where workers were made to sign statements


certifying they received minimum wage, where

SUMMARY
The reason why this fictional story is a
naturalistic one is because it downright shows the
reader how terrible life can be and how bad things
happen to good people. Is it not terrible enough that
a young boy as young as 8 years old losses his
father in a fight for a cause? To top this incident off

millionaire politicians received Holy Communion


every Sunday, where mothers taught their sons and
daughters the art of begging, where orphans and
children from broken homes slept on pavements
and under darkened bridges, and where best
friends fell out and betrayed one another.

the story deprives the young boy of a mother who

Simply a single mistake of one ignorant

had an affair with a man completely different with

person can give a dominant domino effect to the

his father. In his early age, Victor already

lives of people. People become the way they are,

experienced how cruel the world is. He worked as a

not because of fate, but they play the cards that life

newspaper boy in the dangerous street of Avenida.

has dealt to them. The story shows us the way life

In that dark street he learned how to curse-say bad

turns and how what we become rests upon our

words

was

defiance and decisions. This has been a phrase

influenced by a group of unmannered teenagers.

through the decades but it portrays some kind of

He found himself alone in the street; sometimes

truth.

and smoke

cigarette because

he

being beat up by bullies.


He had to sacrifice his childhood. He lost
the chance of having a bright future when his father
died. He also experienced how mean the city is. A

Yes, bad things happen to good people but


that doesnt mean that we should idly stand by and
let fate decide what happens to us.

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