I am currently reading the book Just Kids by Patti Smith. I am currently reading the book and it seems to be a mix of things that the character has been going through (both characters). These characters have a passion for art, and the book seems to focus on this and their lives in general. Yet their lives are very realistic, they share conflicts in which are very relatable to our world in the book. One of the most similar themes I have seen in the book is early pregnancy; this theme has been very prominent considering the beginning of the book which is very important to hook the reader in talks about pregnancy which I have yet to uncover. Pregnancy is a huge theme in the book for the fact that it creates discrimination against you and the people around you. It also makes you backtrack and change your life in succeeding.
In the book one of the main characters is obviously a female in order to be having a baby. When she gets pregnant her life completely changes around. In the book she sleeps with a boy and realizes that she got pregnant. This creates a tremendous amount of problems for her because like I said it first created discrimination around her. Since she is a pretty religious catholic it is a known belief that you're not supposed to have sex before marriage, and obviously she violated this belief. Her neighbors started to look at her distastefully, and her family's reputation went down, even though it wasn't that high before anyways. Yet they still treated her bad, quote “they treated my family like I was harboring a criminal." This shows you how extreme their judge mentality was towards her. Yet this is so relatable currently in our world. Many people watch the show called teen mom and I have heard many people talk about, so discriminative; they act like just because they had a baby they ultimately changed in to a bad person. Yet really they are obviously the same person. I honestly think that it is true that they actually should have thought about it before, especially since they knew they had no ways back then to prevent birth (relating back to the story now). Early pregnancy is obviously a major problem in the story.
Early pregnancy also creates a huge backtrack in your life, and obviously she knows it does because she has had a huge back track since her original life before she ever became pregnant. She had to leave her home after she got pregnant because of all the ridicule she got from neighbors. She left, but still had issues with other things because of the fact that her family didn’t make that much money, so, basically she left with nothing but a little amount of savings. She had to go live with a family that kindly accepted her inside their home. If it wasn’t for her being pregnant she would continue her art and her easy going life to enjoy reading every day. But yet she is pregnant and had to find a job that she didn’t like at all and now is struggling with a lot of things. Which is in the real world and being pregnant can immediately ruin your life. In teen mom most of them have problems even finishing school because they have to take care of their newborn child. A lot of people don’t even go back to school period. It causes a huge speed bump, because now you can’t worry about you, only your son or daughter. Pregnancy is such a turning point and theme for the main character.
In conclusion, being pregnant really changed her life. This is really special because it really does show pregnancy a lot. This is really comparable of our life; even though we have birth control it still happens which makes me wonder if that made a difference.
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