Response to Garretts question

The characters in the book “Our America” are working with reality very well. They know what situation they are in. They know where they are from, and they know what environment they are in. The characters are fictionalizing their environments by having fun, and basically pretending it’s a normal crime free life. In actuality they know that their lives are in danger and that they need to watch themselves and know how to carry themselves. They still make the best out of their situation, even though their lives are way harder than most people’s lives. They still have fun though and live with what they got. I see it as if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. They go to school with gang members and people who sell drugs, but they still have fun and even interview people in their neighborhoods to show everyone it aint all that bad. Also both of them have distraught families. LeAlan’s mother has a mental condition, whereas Lloyd’s mother is dead. LeAlan’s father is no where around, whereas Lloyd’s father is an alcoholic. They are both being raised by family members that are not their biological parents. Lloyd is being raised by his older sisters. leAlan is being raised by his grandmother. They both are living tough, but they make fit with what they got. They are from the ghetto but make it the best they can while they live there. That is how my characters LeAlan and Lloyd fictionalize themselves and work with reality in my book “Our America”.