I Don 't Know It Makes Us Poor

When Miss Emily’s father passed away she began to start acting out. Emily is stuburned like her father, who refuses to change. Although her father had lots of money, he only left Miss Emily the home. Soon the town started asking Miss Emily to pay her taxes. But, she refused to do so. Colonel Sartoris, the mayor of the town, planned to not make Miss Emily pay taxes on her house, “Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity” (452), trying not to make it seem like Colonel Sartoris was offering her charity. He made up an imaginary loan from her father to the town

The daughter had a life plan. She wants to be successful even though people will alienate her for the fact that she has the qualities of someone from a low income family. “In pottery class I’m making a jar with a lid. If it comes out all right I think I’ll use it for a jewel box as we don’t ever eat marmalade. Jolley demonstrates that the sister knows she does not have a lot of things that people high up on the social status would normally have. The author uses characterization to provide the reader with an insight of how each individual lives in a low income family.

Almost every parent dreams of giving their children what they never had growing up. However, unavoidable situations cannot be changed and we are forced to make do with what life gives us. Life’s twists and turns are not always predicted, we get caught up with other things and lose sight of the important ones. In the story, “I Stand Here Ironing,” Tillie Olsen portrays the life and regret of a young single mother struggling to raise her daughter Emily. Olsen points out through uncontrollable circumstances in society, Emily’s mother is forced to become a working-class mother who

While Helen had parents who took care of her and a family who did well for themselves, from a young age Anne had to take care of herself living in a poor house with her brother until he died. The one thing they did have in common was Anne’s already failing eyes. She lived in the poor house alone for years until one day when an inspector came and she declared how much she wanted to attend school.

I recall growing up when my mother would lecture me prior entering a store. My mother would say, when we go in the store, do not touch anything because she did not have money to pay for broken items; or do you have the money to pay for it? I grew up poor, on welfare, and lived in the projects, so I can relate to Sylvia. However, my mother instilled in me that being poor do not define me, but that education is vital for survival. Just because one the lack resources for a better education, do not mean one must give up; perseverance and determination make you strong. If you think it, you can achieve it was my mother’s motto.

Growing up Anne admitted to not knowing she was “poor”. She thought her family did the things they did because that is what all the families in her town were doing. Her family had a box that the community would put their hand-me downs in for Anne and her ten siblings. They got to take a bath once and week and shared water with all of her siblings. Wearing the same socks for multiple days was common as long as they turned their socks on inside-out. Anne and her sister’s made their dresses and each had three total - two dresses for school and one dress for church. Anne’s

The dance hall and the bank were closed and the buildings were deteriorating. Kaylie’s mom was a single parent and was doing everything possible to make ends meet. They were moving in and out of run down motels and the kids were not attending school. This corresponds with the fact that “nearly half of kids with a single mom live in poverty” (Neumann, 2012). The mother of the Hegwood family was working but all of the money was being spent to pay bills and nothing else.

Most of our classmates had families that struggled with poverty. As students were presenting everyone started noticing that we all had families that were poor. One example was Perla’s mother. When Perla’s mother was 15 and she was a high schooler, she had

Joann didn’t deny that growing up she was poor, and even after childhood. She had such good spirit and attitude that she was never negative about being poor. When she was poor, she tried to make the best of it, and still have fun even though she didn’t have a lot of money.

The next day Emily was to return back to school. Emily knew no one was going to talk to her for a very long time. Emily went shunned for days. She began to fear no one would ever talk to her again. When Emily went home her mom was a lot nicer, she heard of how heard of how hard Emily had it at school and needed some way to aid her. While at school Emily was still shunned and felt terrible kicking a stone down the sidewalk one Friday after school. As Emily walked around the bend she saw that something was different and happy at her house.

The beginning of the story, the author starts out by describing the mother’s feelings toward the children. “She had bonny children, but she felt as if they had been thrusted upon her, and she could not love them.” A child can tell when a mother does not love them, and they will do anything to gain that love. In this case the boy knows about the unspoken phrase in the house; “There is not enough money”.

The story takes place in the South, as is illustrated a few times throughout the story. It took place some time between the 1860’s and the 1930’s, which illustrates the source of some problems for Miss Emily. That was just after the civil war, and that was a period of great change for the South. Not only did the South have to quickly extinguish slavery, it changed from agriculture to factories with almost the same pace. Most of the people in Jefferson had someone to go through these changes with, but Emily did not. Clearly her father was wealthy. He would have owned a fair amount of slaves, one of whom was probably Tobe, the Negro

That singular statement haunted me for years. That the word “poor” was directly tied to my name. A bond that could not be broken, belittling me every time I thought of it. “Poor” is such a nasty word; “poor” is a word that immediately evokes the thought of food stamps, being depressed, not having food, and living on the streets. Instead of “poor”, one should say “low-income”. Coming from a low-income family did not define who I was, although, everyone else thought it did. Growing up in a low-income family taught me how to put myself first, budget my money, how to be a hard worker, and gave me thicker skin.

Her town where she was once of the highest status with the most beautiful home, was now nothing but an eyesore in the world of the new generation. She was a very stubborn woman. When her father had passed, the current mayor of the town, Colonel Sartoris, made up a story to get poor Miss Emily out of paying her taxes. And when the new generation of aldermen rode into town to collect what was theirs, Emily never budged. "I received a paper, yes," Miss Emily said.

In “Thank you, ma'am” hughes tried to show how mrs.luella bates was also poor.Hughes stated in the story “Instead as they ate she told him about her job in a hotel beauty shop that stayed open late…..Then she cut him half of her ten cent cake”. Hughes stated this to show how mrs.Bates only had enough money to pay for a cake that costs ten cent and she only worked in a hotel beauty salon. Another example would be when ‘‘The strap broke with the single tug the boy gave it from behind”. She doesn't have much money so she had to buy a cheap purse you can tell it's cheap because it breaks easily . Lastly Mrs.Luella said “You ought to be my son . I would