Mothers and children. That’s all I see. Moms and they kids. No fathers nowhere.
-- Tyrell (chapter 2)

Importance: Tyrell has been primarily raised by his mother, and when he sees the other families waiting for temporary housing, he realizes that his situation is not unique. Tyrell, and other children like him, often yearn for their father's stability and attention. Tyrell, however, just wishes that his mother was capable of taking care of him and his brother in his father's absence, but he knows that he will have to survive on his own.

I can tell they coming to the EAU by the size of the duffel bags they carrying, like they got everything they own in there. They look as lost as my family looked two weeks ago when we got here, like they don’t got nowhere else to go. Just like us.
-- Tyrell (chapter 2)

Importance: The EAU serves the most desperate families in the...