Summary: Response To A Monologue In Juvie Talk

Response to A Monologue in Juvie Talk
The monologues presented in Juvie Talk, a book by Richard Ross, clearly suggest the complex yet problematic situation of American youth incarceration. Anecdotal monologues and the language of juveniles grant readers insights into the life they are experiencing, highlighting the gap between the basic human rights and juvenile justice. As a young adult, I deeply link my own psychological growth and experience to the certain struggles these youths have been through.
The monologue of a seventeen-year-old youth particularly speaks to me. The teenager B.B. talks about how she has to live under the supervision of permanent Juvenile Justice Authority as a material wetness, even though she has no charges on her. Later in her life, B.B. lives as

in my heart because I have a strong connection to her experience. One of my cousins was adopted by my uncle’s family and later abandoned by them. My infertile aunt adopted my cousin because she believes an old saying about adoption a child can cure infertility. Ridiculously surprising, a year after the adoption, my aunt got pregnant, a boy that she had always been expecting. Started from there, problematic parenting and unequal treatment happened everyday in that family. My cousin started to skip classes and became highly addicted to the Internet and computer games. Soon at the age of fifteen, he was abandoned. I still remembered the day my father told me about this family secret. He looked into my eyes and said: “do you want a big brother? I mean…he has nowhere to go now.” I sympathized with my cousin and liked him the most among all of my relatives. After we met again in the city I live, we soon became good friends, and he was definitely a qualified big brother. He didn’t told me too much about my uncle’s family, but what I remembered the most was he never showing resentment about what he had been through, and he often said he loves his father (my uncle) and the