Dead or Prison: My Journey in Foster Care.
The contents in the book make it an autobiographical Book with George Duvall and Derek Humfleet as the authors. The book narrates the story of George Duvall in foster care after he involves himself in crime. Duvall’s bad morals lead him to Kentucky under a white family and face racism in school. Duvall faces extreme poverty, which pushes him to crime. Duvall faces racism in Kentucky, but perseveres and graduates to have new hope. Duvall’s story target is young people who find themselves in crimes and end up in juvenile detention centers and foster homes.
Duvall was uncontrollable as he was exposed to crime in an early stage of life to find food for his family and had an absent that and found himself vulnerable to wrong groups who encouraged him to crime. Duvall’s peers encourage him to mug a disabled person. After arrest, the judge said the only way to rectify his behavior was to put him under foster care at the Ranch since he was too young to stay in a teen juvenile detention center. Duvall has a mixed life at the Ranch, but by the time he leaves a changed person.
Duvall finds himself in Kentucky under the care of Randy Sonya, who were whites. Life is difficult in adapting living with the whites dominated community and finds peace after befriending Qwa’el, who lives with black parents. At school, Duvall faces racism, and even the teacher segregates him. Duvall’s foster parents relocate to Washington, and he relocates to Qwa’els parents. Duvall and Qwa’el form a friendship and work hard in academics, and they graduate together. Patrick becomes a close aid who helps Duvall to build hope and close confidant whom Duvall could look up to in times of trouble.
The book content creation is admirable because, as a reader, it generates emotions due to the different scenes. The strength of the book’s content is an inspiration for how one should not lose hope in whatever situation you find yourself in. The different stages in the author’s story is clear. The book font is big enough to read and understand. The content on one page is less to attract the reader, and the humor in the content ensures the reader is left anxious to know the next content.
The book is relevance to foster children is unmeasurable. It gives hope to children at foster homes to persevere the hard situations and work hard to change their story like Duvall change against all the odds to graduate. The book content is vital to foster parents to help them understand foster children and establish plans of ensuring the children feel loved and belonging. The book helps foster parents to understand that foster children have more issues affecting them internally than externally.