Topic > Third World Case Study - 1117

Many people would also like to get away from drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. However the boy is telling the girl to forget everything she has been accustomed to and live like ordinary people. Smoking cigarettes and not going to school are just some of the things the boy tells the girl to do if she really wants to fit into the dominant culture. Through a psychoanalytic point of view, the id can be seen in this excerpt as ordinary people search for what makes us feel good in the moment. Skipping school, playing pool, and smoking cigarettes all seem like fun in the midst of all this, as they don't think about how these actions might affect them in the future. All three of these things combined would have a serious impact on the girl as those actions could eventually lead to habits that she embeds in her