Tell Them Who I Am

Another is that people make too much of this stereotype that people are homeless because they’re unemployed, disabled, addicts, or other such things. That’s what this book has done for me, and that’s why I would recommend it to other Sociology students, and even anyone and everyone else just because it teaches something most people don’t know the truth about. His goal with this book was to write an honest description of shelter life, while also explaining how the women could remain so human while being faced with such inhuman conditions. Most people who are unemployed, mentally or physically disabled, or addicts have homes. Many of the homeless women were not able to receive proper healthcare necessary because they couldn’t always afford the proper help. You could have the skills necessary and be fully qualified, but you won’t get the job. Although some homeless do fit one or more of those categories, they’re not in any correlation with the fact that they’re homeless.

It truly is a sad thing homelessness exists, because it doesn’t have to. ‘I failed at two marriages and I failed at every job I ever had. He feels that society has failed the homeless; from the jobs and housing to the very shelters themselves. The fact that is that they are suffering conditions that many of us could never think of enduring day in and day out, but we pass them in our cars going off to the mall or wherever and often times don’t give it a second thought.

When really looking at the title, it points to the way that most people tend to pigeonhole homeless people into a certain category and stereotype them as though they’re all the same. He really approaches the subject with the perspective of a conflict sociologist. e immersed in their lives and was able to write a book about them. Tell Them Who I Am is like a command to see that the homeless are all unique individuals just like the rest of us and that they’re people too.