It is often said that we are a product of our environment, that who and what we grow up around ultimately shapes us into our future selves. There are many in the world that find this statement unbreakably true, and it is easy to see why. If you look at multiple stories in the world of delinquent children you will often find that they come from broken homes, or not so favorable environments. Feral children, as discussed by Karen Renner, in her book Evil Children in Film and Literature are children who are “victims of shocking abuse and neglect” (11) from the first viewing of Sloth in the film the Goonies we see that he is exactly that. His personality as a feral character is directly influenced by those caring for him. His age is most likely…show more content… She goes off gallivanting her with boyfriend at a higher rate than she does care about her daughter. Her lack of caring for her daughter is obvious when after Jessica has suffered a significate trauma, Joy, her mother decides to leave the house and defends her position by saying that night is Jessica’s favorite TV night. The narrator sheds light onto the truant nature of Joy’s mother by saying “it had been years since she been interested in the Sunday evening kiddie shows- a fact that Hoy might have noticed if her ever stayed at home” (Snyder, 112) this is just one of many examples of how Jessica had been left to fend for…show more content… We know that the Fratelli family is bad at this point of the novel, and assume that the “monster” sloth is worse than them because of how he is treated. The misconception is forced upon the viewing audience evener harder when in the same scene Mikey gives him the good that his brother refused to and he screams and hold the food up as if he is going to throw it. The audience never seems him do anything bad at this point but the idea of him being a bad character is so embedded in their minds from previous incarnations of literature and movies it is assumed that he is and evil character, specifically an evil feral