Walter Kovacs

I was not expecting to write about the failure of the educational system when I choose to read Watchmen. However, Walter Kovacs’, or Rorschach, elementary diction is impossible to miss. I remembered the podcast that we listened to during the very first few weeks of class, “The Problem We All With – Part One,” while I was reading Kovacs past and taking note of his limited vocabulary. Characters in the book, like prisoners, strangers, and prison guards, often perceived Kovacs to be mediocre because of his distant personality, unappealing physical characteristics, and elementary diction. However, I have learned, by tying Watchmen to “The Problem We All With – Part One,” that Kovacs’ issues have a deeper, more complex explanation. The podcast explains the disadvantage of

Although, Nikole Hannah Jones speaks primarily about the benefits of reintegration, I believe that this topic can be attributed to Kovacs’ issues because they offer the explanation that he was a victim to the structural discrimination that many people from low-income communities’ experience.
As explained earlier, Kovacs’ mother was a prostitute. His mother’s chosen work left Kovacs vulnerable to the physical and emotional abuse he experienced while growing up. However, since sex work is considered illegal and morally wrong, Kovacs was also left vulnerable to the economic inequality that came from having family member engaged in this work. Gibbons and Moore (1986) explained that Kovacs and his mother had limited to no financial resources because of the disengagement of his father in his life. Similar Nedra Martin and her daughter Mah’Ria, Kovacs’ mother tried her best to provide her child with a maintainable lifestyle (Jones and Glass, 2015).