To complete question, the passage your question is referring to from Jacob Riis's “how the Other Half Lives” is written below
"With no steady hand to guide him, the boy takes naturally to idle ways. Caught in the street by the truant officer, or by the agents of the Children’s Societies, peddling, perhaps, or begging, to help out the family resources, he runs the risk of being sent to a reformatory, where contact with vicious boys older than himself soon develop the latent possibilities for evil that lie hidden in him. The city has no Truant Home in which to keep him, and all efforts of the children’s friends to enforce school attendance are paralyzed by this want. The risk of the reformatory is too great." – Jacob Riis”
Further Explanation
I will select three sentences and argue from the point of view presented by Jacob Riis from the passage
- The first sentence from the passage means that a child is performing an action without his parent guidance. It also means there was no one to put him on the right track
- The second sentence means that the child was arrested because of his actions, which also implies that he faced the consequences of his actions.
- The third sentence means that there is a house in a city that has no guard and that all the children in the city appeared to be forced to get a quality education.
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