Life Story Of Cowboy And Maria

When people are struck with hardships in life, the way they react reveals their true character. Having a certain mindset can greatly influence how they handle problems, differentiating one person from another. Many can feel discouraged and feel like giving up when they hit a rough patch. In other cases, the will to be in a position better than where they are at the moment gives them the motivation to succeed. Adversity can have a positive effect on the development of an individual's character, providing them with the drive to overcome their current situation.

Comparatively, the inner-city demographics hindered the boy’s chances of social mobility and personal growth along with the social brutality. A city is like a machine in the sense that every part of the city works together to bring

A. There is a difference, and it is mentioned in the book, between the generational poverty and situational poverty. And no matter which kind it is, authors stress, “we cannot blame the victims of poverty for being in

Imagine growing up in a small town where everyone knows everyone's business and the nearest Wal-Mart is almost an hour away; then imagine attending a school where the amount of student attending is the same number of people who occupy a small town. The size difference is substantial and plays an important role. When I was younger, I had attended both a small town school and a school in the city. I have had the chance to experience the different lifestyles of these two variations of living. The development of who I am today was because of my surroundings. In the city, I noticed there was different opportunities. The opportunities seemed more readily available depending on funding and sources; which are dependant on the location. Education, development, and opportunities are widely known to be affected by environmental factors; thus, people who live in the city have a different experience than those who reside in small towns.

The author uses a seemingly endless cycle of poverty to emphasize the cage in which the characters are trapped. As Lizabeth muses over her childhood, she recalls the daily cycle of how “each morning our mother and father trudged wearily down the dirt road and around the bend, she to her domestic job, he to his daily unsuccessful quest for work.” (1). Every morning began the same way, passed the same way, and ended the same way. Lizabeth feels trapped, forced to go through the same series of events for what seems to be the rest of her life, with the same people, in the same place. When the author pairs this with the “dusty” setting of the town and the time placement of the Great Depression, it creates an effect of hopelessness for the first part of the story. This is only furthered by Lizabeth continually returning to the idea that “Poverty was the cage in which we were all trapped.” (1). Lizabeth opens the story by first giving a description of her hometown as “dusty”, remembering the poverty and hopelessness. She then continues by referring to the cage of not having enough money, and the cycle that it put them through, and ends by alluding to her future being limited to her poverty.

An example of this narrative can be a man that has a job. This job gives him great benefits, and above average pay.

Sociological imagination played a part in this story because the author Wes Moore made connections on how personal experiences relates to public issues. He grew up in poverty and maintained ambition to receive proper education. Thus this tells readers not to let where you came from or your downfalls hinder you from being successful. The Author Wes Moore displayed that education was the key to all future success. He also showed that there should always be a backup plan in case the funding runs out. In the book it wasn’t luck that determined the fates in

For example, in the novel, autobiography, “The Glass Castle”, Jeannette is a little girl whom managed to overcome the hardships of her life. When she was three-years-old, she got herself burned due to the fact that her parents were making cook her own hot dogs; therefore, she learned that she wasn’t supposed to play with fire. At high school, her didn’t have any money to buy food nor to buy the supplies she required at her school, and whenever they did have money, Jeannette’s father would spend it all on liquor and her mom would spend on unnecessary things such as sculptures. Consequently, always living with the constant fear of knowing that she could end up like her parents, she decided to move to New York along with her siblings and started working at a newspaper company. Eventually, she studied at an university and ended up writing this novel; in addition, she wanted to share her experiences in order to inspire and encourage other people. Her message is clear, it doesn’t matter how hopeless your current state might seem, if you are will to succeed, you will definitely be able to achieve

situations in order to live a successful life. Hardships is something we all face and it’s

If a person looks at changing times in a negative way, then this can affect human nature in a negative way. For example, in Source A, John Steinbeck states, “I saw it sharply because I was on the outside, writing books no one would buy. I didn't have even the margin to start my fortune. I saw the wild spending, the champagne and caviar through windows, smelled the heady perfumes on fur-draped ladies when they came warm and shining out of the theaters...Then the bottom dropped out, and I could see that clearly too,” (Steinbeck). The spontaneous spending that the wealthy performed had a very negative effect on Steinbeck’s human nature. He was very upset about this because he could not enjoy that particular kind of luxury, and he was very biased against them. This painful struggle is also seen in Source F, which shows a picture of one farmer’s crops destroyed by the Dust Bowl. A farmer states, “When I knew that my crop was irrevocably gone I experienced a deathly feeling which, I hope, can affect a man only once in a lifetime. My dreams and ambitions had been flouted by nature, and my shattered ideals seemed gone forever. The very desire to make a success of my life was gone. The spirit and urge to strive were dead within me.” After a series of terrible events transpired and he lost his crop, he did not have the desire to go on with his

In life there will always be those moments that we most value and those that we wish to avoid. Misfortunes are the situations or events that we wish to vanish from our lives because we view them in a negative way. However, what many choose to avoid is actually something that defines who we are. Misfortunes develop one’s character and it identifies us as a person. Everyone goes through different situations and because of that each and every person develops their own unique character based on those misfortunes. The essays “Flavio’s Home” by Gordon Parks, “What I’ve Learned From Men” by Barbara Ehrenreich, and “Common Decency” by Susan Jacoby all explain to us in detail the situation that a particular person is going through which in the end reveals how the person’s character was developed by that misfortune.

For example, the main character Jurgis is a hard working man with the determined philosophy of “I will just work harder.” Every time something begins to go wrong he comes back with that same philosophy and begins his toil in the Stockyards again. However, no matter how hard Jurgis worked, he and his family were still always stuck in the same dreadfulness. “This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price they paid. They were willing to work all the time; and when people did their best, ought they not to be able to keep alive?” The family eventually lost the battle to keep a roof over their head and food in their stomachs. It wasn’t because of a lack of trying but the because of the corrupt labor system and big business principles. “Here was Durham 's, for instance, owned by a man who was trying to make as much money out of it as he could, and did not care in the least how he did it; and underneath him, ranged in ranks and grades like an army… each one driving the man next below him and trying to squeeze out of him as much work as possible. And all the men of the same rank were pitted against each other…every man lived in terror of losing his job, if another made a better record than he.” So, as previously mentioned, their work ethic meant nothing in the end. No matter how hard they worked, they were continuously victims. “Jurgis could see all the truth now- could see himself, through the whole

This technique relates to the idea of struggle and hardship, because it would be both a hardship for Gilbert to live in such a boring town, and a struggle to make a living where there is an apparent lack of people, meaning a lack of customers and money.

Lutie Johnson is one character that loses her hopes and dreams due to the poverty that has and will forever affect her life. After she is denied payment for her singing job, Lutie begins to realize that her idea of moving out of the street to a nicer one is quite unrealistic and nearly impossible because “she didn’t have enough money to a month’s rent in advance” as well as “hire a moving-man” (308). She starts to think about getting “accustomed to the idea of remaining there” on that street because she just didn’t have the money to move, and she believes that she had been too hopeful. Later in the story, however, when Lutie gets ready to go the Children’s Shelter, her thoughts are quite revealing about how her poverty led her resignation. She realizes that the only way to get out of her poverty is ¨to save money¨(407), and she starts to think that it is ¨better to take things they [are] and not try to change them¨ (406). She believes that there is no way to get out of the ¨circle¨ of poverty (406), leading to a loss of her desire to improve life. Moving onward, another character that is accepts his life of poverty is Boots Smith before he is a porter on Pullman trains. During this time Boots would get some piano jobs in which he would get a meal or some money, but everywhere he would play the piano, the people were either drunk, rude, or racist. However, he needs the

Despite the negative factors of living in urban environment, there are a great number of positive sides that affect the life quality of people who live in urban cities. Perhaps, the