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Hardships of Living Two Lives Mines 2002 Susan Straight Sometimes it is very difficult to adjust to different environments especially when living in a socially unstable community. Susan Straight knows what this is like growing up in Riverside and having a black husband. Many of her stories are about black family life. In Susan Straights short story Mines (2002), the protagonist, Clarette, works at a stressful job dealing with delinquent juveniles while trying to balance time for her own children at home; with this, Straight shows the hardships of living two different lives and how they connect. First, Clarette works at a youth prison and sees juvenile delinquents wasting their lives away. She is disgusted by the way the†¦show more content†¦In both situations she has to look out for the kids, making sure they do not get into trouble. At home she notices that her son resembles the wards, after she sees him with his head shaved. â€Å"My son. His head naked† (Straight 157). Clarette’s husband, Ray, had Ray Jr. get his head shaved like the juveniles at the Youth Prison. Ray says, â€Å"The look, baby. Everybody wants the look. He said some punks was messin with him at school† (157). Clarette is very upset after this happens. She does not want her son to get into trouble and end up in a terrible place like the Youth Prison. Clarette also sees the similarities in how the kids in her community dress with the way the wards do. Clarette says, I gotta watch all these wards dressed in dark blue work outfits, baggy-ass pants, big old shirts, and then get home and all the kids in the neighborhood are wearing dark blue Dickies; Ray is wearing dark blue Dickies and a Big Dog shirt† (157). The kids think that it is cool to have this look but they do not realize that they could very easily end up in the Youth Prison as well if they continue to act like the wards. In conclusion, Clarette has trouble adjusting from her life at prison to her life at home. 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