1. Scott was raised in a poor area filled with factory workers. They were to poor to afford some basic necessities, including health insurance. He is part of a society that does not mourn or complain during hardships but rather just ignores it.
2. Based on the review, I already expected to read about tough times and struggles within the working class. Not to my surprise I was right that once I began to read more into the book.
3. I do see some stereotypes in Crapalachia, one being that the working class are poor and uneducated people. They go on to portray them as dumb and rude which can shift anyone's view of what the working class really is.
4. I believe these stereotypes are present because there are people who are similar to the ones portrayed in this story; if you think of the working class as a whole, however, then it does not.
5. The first 20 pages seem to set up the society that we will be looking at throughout the book. It sets up a poor environment that makes me, the reader, feel sorry for them. It made me react this way because a reader I am inclined to put myself in their position and from the start of the book there are already visible struggles.
