7.How did family relationships influence these boys' lives?

Each of the boys had different family experiences, George for one had a stable kinda home with a mother who worked hard for her children. George's family could be the reason he at a young age wanted to do what is right and good in school, his lack of a father did lead him to look for male role models and luckily he had good ones that didn't lead him down the path of crime and drugs. Rameck's family was one that could have pushed him to a life of crime or drugs, seeing as his mother and father were drugs addicts. Rameck knowing about his parents addict and seeing what it did to ther could be what kept him away from drugs, seeing as all the problems that came with it may have been all Rameck need to be drug free. Sam's family was large and and the most dis functional to me. Sam's mother and father breaking up and the trouble to pay the bills after along with so many people living in the house could be what pushed Sam to hang with the wrong people. His father leaving left Sam with out a male role model, and he couldn't find one from his brothers is to me what made him search for guidance but with all the crime and drugs around him it was hard. But Reggie entracne into Sam's life did give him the strength to say no to the drugs. Even with his bad points they did have good points, like pushing Sam to do great in school and even when he was faced with lying to get out of trouble he told the truth something he learned from his mother. Each other the boys families wanted the best for them and pushed them to do great in school, because they knew that an education could be what stops the boys from having a life like their.