Literature has been influenced by a lot of things but the most important one is the influence literature has been socially.
In “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani, In the time this poem was written the 80’s were almost over and the 90’s were coming. A lot of the young people around that time had a tough time and the parents were more focused on this perfect family and perfect children rather than the well being of their kids. A young girl commits suicide and leaves a note on why she ended her life. In the note she talks all about how she is just not good enough, not pretty enough and not smart enough and didn’t get high grades in school.
From that note you can tell that her parents probably cared about her grades