We’ve already know about definitions, differences, comparison
between runaways and throwaways but as a topic, always have histories that
encase important things and even the context of those two words change, if we
explore the history we can see that in the past, the runaways and thrownaways
have more senses than the actually.
Start the history in the 18th and 19th
century, the industrial Revolution, as a website says “Thousands of children,
unprotected by restrictive labor laws and compulsory education, sought to
escape the penury of rural life by obtaining factory jobs in the dense urban
jungles of Europe and the United States. Leaving behind large families, many of
these children left home with the consent of their parents and were forced into
a new, urban poverty without the support of families and close-knit communities” the obligation of the job makes the
youth independence from their parents an both accept their destiny to live far
from them.
Continue in the history,
appear the age of The great depression (1929-1939) childrens again with the consent
of their parents left their homes, searching economic opportunities, “So pervasive was the problem of runaway
youths during this time, that children were forced to travel from town to town
in boxcars on freight trains in search of any available financial or material
assistance (Minehan 1934; Wells and Sandhu 1986)”. The great depression was the age in where the
human saw the worst status economics, this start in united states after the
fall in stock prices, the girls were sometimes forced into prostitution to pay
for food and shelter and the boys sometimes steal and beg, at the end of this
age created social communities for this.
Now the last landmark of the history, was in
1960s the social movement of hippies in where think about the freedom and the "hypocrisies of a
materialistic culture" the definition of family
for them was running away of their mind, and they start to live alone with
their existencialism, the latest one, could find examples of personas who
runaway and be thrownaway, like Kurt Cobain with his dysfunctional Family he
many times were thrown and many times ran, represents a symbols of a teen who
find in the music a breath for his family’s problem was the symbol of the 80s.
Steve Jobs is a kind of man who leave his home to develop a business that are
the most famous in the world.
As we see, the history
change the context of runaways and thrownaways. Even though, it doesn’t exist war
or a economic depression, still exist family’s problems.
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