Short essay: Discussion on helping children

On this page, we offer you some insights you can use to produce your own short essay on the short story. 

Discussion on how to best help children from families with social problems

In this section, we have highlighted some points you might want to include in your discussion about helping children from families with social problems.

We have created a few questions for you to consider when you write your essay, which will help you take your discussion to another level and reflect on the story in general.

• First of all, think about how can you define “social problems” and what you can place in this category (for example violence, alcohol, drug abuse, etc.)
  • Focus on the part where Douglas’ past is described. He had to deal with “drink problems in the...