Throughout the story Gordon Parks explains in detail Flavio's life, but the thing that seemed most significant to him was how Flavio was able to still smile even though he has such a hard life. While being only a child himself Flavio is able to care for his younger brothers and sisters by preparing food, clean their home and even instructing them to wash themselves. While Flavio and his brothers and sisters accepted Gordon Parks presence their father was not too pleased. He viewed them skeptically as he was not sure of their intentions. The story gave the impres

Flavio and his family lived in a shack near the top of a mountainside. It was a leaning crumpled place of old planking with a rusted tin roof. Inside of the shack was a stove, which consisted of a rusted, bent top of an old gas range resting on several bricks, a sagging bed and a broken baby's crib. The shack itself was six by ten feet. The walls were a patch work of misshapen boards with large gaps between them, the floor consisted of rotting layers of grease and dirt, caught shafts of light slanting down through spaces in the roof. A large hole in the corner served as a toilet. From Gordon Parks description of Flavio's home can be interpreted just how poor Flavio and his family is. The fact that the first thing that attracted Gordon Parks to Flavio was his smile, makes a reader wonder how he can smile while living such a hard life. From the passage Flavio's father even stated that he didn't have the money to send his children to school.

In the passage it is told of Flavio's life and hardships due to poverty. While most would have given up on life ca

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