All God's Children The Bosket Family Analysis
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The book "All My Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence", by Fox Butterfield focused on a real case about a young man named Willie Bosket who committed murder. This case is famous for many reasons, and the inmate who still resides in a New York prison has gained a reputation for being one of the most dangerous prisoners in the state of New York. Butterfield wanted to go into depth as to why Willie …show more content…
We would usually think that the reason for this is because they were never really shown any love from family or friends. Willie was always picked on during school and in the streets. Tupac Shakur raps about this in his Thugz Mansion lyrics. Tupac raps, “…no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowin it’s hard to carry on when no one loves you.” Butch was only shown love by mainly his grandmother, but even then it was rare. Willie on the other hand, was shown love early by his mother but eventually she started to distance herself from him and he got less and less until she eventually did not want to put up with him and rather just give him to the legal system. As it seems, it was not all just Willies fault for some of his actions. Willie never met his father, due to Butch being incarcerated, and received the love he yearned for from him, then eventually he started to get in trouble and his mother started showing him less and less love. Therefore, he never fully developed a conscience. To develop one, a person needs some form of love and acceptance, someone to show them right and wrong and to be consistent with the punishments or rewards received. Without a conscience people tend to be more violent without regards to others safety or even theirs. It is weird how from Pud, who was the first to really begin violence in the family, the conscience level and the less fit for society level went down to Willie who seemed to not even have
The book "All My Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence", by Fox Butterfield focused on a real case about a young man named Willie Bosket who committed murder. This case is famous for many reasons, and the inmate who still resides in a New York prison has gained a reputation for being one of the most dangerous prisoners in the state of New York. Butterfield wanted to go into depth as to why Willie …show more content…
We would usually think that the reason for this is because they were never really shown any love from family or friends. Willie was always picked on during school and in the streets. Tupac Shakur raps about this in his Thugz Mansion lyrics. Tupac raps, “…no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble. Not knowin it’s hard to carry on when no one loves you.” Butch was only shown love by mainly his grandmother, but even then it was rare. Willie on the other hand, was shown love early by his mother but eventually she started to distance herself from him and he got less and less until she eventually did not want to put up with him and rather just give him to the legal system. As it seems, it was not all just Willies fault for some of his actions. Willie never met his father, due to Butch being incarcerated, and received the love he yearned for from him, then eventually he started to get in trouble and his mother started showing him less and less love. Therefore, he never fully developed a conscience. To develop one, a person needs some form of love and acceptance, someone to show them right and wrong and to be consistent with the punishments or rewards received. Without a conscience people tend to be more violent without regards to others safety or even theirs. It is weird how from Pud, who was the first to really begin violence in the family, the conscience level and the less fit for society level went down to Willie who seemed to not even have