Timmy (sleeping on the sofa) is mentally handicapped and has cerebral palsy. He usually sleeps through the chaos but sometimes the constant flow of people disturbs him and will set off another seizure.

"The people in the culture of poverty have a strong feeling of marginality, of helplessness, of dependency, of not belonging. They are like aliens in their own country, convinced that the existing institutions do not serve their interests and needs. Along with this feeling of powerlessness is a widespread feeling of inferiority, of personal unworthiness. When the poor become class conscious…or when they adopt an internationalist outlook on the world they are, in my view, no longer part of the culture of poverty although they may still be desperately poor."