Poverty And Poverty

Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways. Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape. So poverty is a call to action -- for the poor and the wealthy alike -- a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their communities.”

Imagine: A young boy scavenges for food to provide for his impoverished family which was composed of his ill mother and starving siblings or a homeless, single mom desperatley seeking for shelter. These synopses from "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and "The Street" by Ann Petry share a common theme: perseverance through hardships. In "Angela's Ashes," a memoir by Frank McCourt, he stells about the harships he endured through his childhood, such as, struggling to assist his family in the midst of poverty by stealing food to provide for them. Futhermore, in "The Street," a novel by Ann Petry, tells the story of young Lutie Johnson, a homeless single mom who is seeking shelter for herself and her children. In these two excerpts, the authors use the characters, settings, and events to develop the theme, which I've identified as perseverance through hardships.

Angela's Ashes is a memoir about the life of the author, Frank McCourt, who talks about his struggles in poverty and his perseverance to overcome it, throughout the memoir there is a major theme that perseverance leads to the achievement of your goals. This theme is expressed throughout the book in three major ways through characters, setting, and events, and it teaches us a strong less about overcoming difficulties such as poverty. For example, in paragraph three after we learn that the narrator's family is starving, and she must provide for them she says "We can get no more credit at O'Connell's shop." she then continues to say "Still, I'll have to try Kathleen O'Connell once more." (McCourt, 3). From this quote we can see that the narrator is not willing to just give up and let her family starve. Instead she perseveres and goes out to go get food for her family, which is her goal. Furthermore, in paragraph 5 McCourt expresses this theme very effectively using an event from the text when the narrator says, “The van driver is inside the shop having tea and a bun with Kathleen and it’s no trouble for me to help myself to a loaf of bread.” (McCourt, 5). This quote shows us how the narrator steals to help support her starving family, from this we can infer that she perseveres and keeps stealing to help feed her family which is her goal, so we can see that she persevered and reached her goal. Lastly, McCourt uses setting to portray this theme in paragraph four when the narrator says, “You can look in people’s windows and

The concepts of “worthy” and “unworthy” poor came about during the English Poor Laws that were introduced in the 1500’s. The English poor laws classified poor or dependent people into three major categories and established many requirement before aid was provided. Dependent persons were categorized as: vagrant (nomadic; with no permanent home or employment), the involuntary unemployed and the helpless. In effect, the poor laws separated the poor into two classes which were the worthy and the unworthy. The worthy were classified as orphans, widows, handicapped, or the frail elderly. The unworthy were the drunkards, suspicious, or lazy. (Hansan, J.E. (2011). Poor relief in early America)

Poverty is a terrible condition, which as unfortunate as it is, many people across the globe suffer from. Poverty can present itself in many ways and in many different circumstances, which is shown in the following stories. In ' Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt, young Frank is burdened with the responsibiliity of providing for his family. Similarly, in 'The Street' by Ann Petry, Lutie, a single black mother, is struggling to find shelter for her family. In both 'Angela's Ashes' and 'The Street,' a key member of each family is desperately trying to support their loved ones and meet their basic human needs. In both passages, the author uses specific characters, events, and settings to demonstrate the theme that one needs perseverance to overcome poverty.

Did you know that in the US alone, according to the Census Bureau that 14.5% of people live in poverty today? Poverty is where you're at a point of being extremely poor. It makes life difficult for these people living in poverty to get food, water and a healthy environment to live in. It ties together with these excerpts because the main character and their family are going through poverty. In these excerpts it involves the following; Frank McCourts "The Street", and Ann Petrys "Angelas Ashes" it shows in each excerpt how the main character is going through poverty with their families, but yet still showing perseverance by not letting anything back them down from helping their family.

However, it was disheartening to hear that sometimes when she walks at work, she encounters people who insult her by calling her “ trashy”. This opened my eyes to how some people view others of the lower and poor class and that people often judge those who are marginalized, even without listening to their story of hard work. I was also angry at the system when I heard Tammy mention how she works long hours at Burger King, yet her employers cannot give her a raise like they give other employees. Tammy’s story also taught me that being poor can make people feel shame and embarrassed at their living situation, this is evidence when Tammy’s son explain how he is embarrassed living in the trailer, how he sometimes denies his relationship with his brother and the embarrassment he feels toward his mother because of the burger clothes she wears. I was inspired by Tammy’s story because it showed me that even poor people work hard and through this hard work, they get ahead in their lives. Instead of staying in the same situation, Tammy has managed to move forward and has bought a new house. Instead of walking ten and a half miles to work, she now walks twenty minutes and still has dreams of being a teacher.

Although many see poverty as a choice, made by those who are lazy and prefer to do nothing but expect to reap the same benefits of people who work hard every day to provide for their families. In some cases this may be true but, poverty will wreak havoc on any and all of those who have the misfortune of crossing paths with it. Poverty is alive and well throughout the world, and it has an unyielding pulse here in the United States. It has been discovered that "The poorest families in America are those headed by people who are shortchanged even in times of prosperity" (Gallaway, & Garrett, 2016, p. 1). US Census data estimates 46.7 million people or 15 percent of Americans now live below the poverty line, including 1 in 3 households

You may not now it but many people around the world struggle with poverty. Thhis paper is going to give the perspective of two diffrent stories that struggled with poverty. In "Angela's Ashe's" By Author Frank McCourt it shows a family strugling with poverty, and how they will do anything for eachother. In "The Street", Author Ann Petry describes the poverty of the narrator and what she does to survive. In both "Angela's Ashe's" and "The Street" the authors show the theme of poverty and how to perservere through hard times.

(Carnegie) The theme of the tale addresses survival and resilience in a world of food scarcity and deprivation. In the beginning of the tale an important truth is reveled which is that deprivation makes people more selfish, less concerned about others feelings, and prone to do evil. “How can I bear to leave my children alone in the forest.”

Poverty for centuries has been a very severe issue that has troubled many nations while impeding economic developments and progress. Poverty stricken countries are majorly concentrated in the continents of Africa and Asia. Continents like the Americas and Europe have globally been recognized as been wealthier yet still many parts of these ostensible countries face massive cases of poverty. Most at times, countries with high populations owing to high birth rates face the most cases of poverty. The definition of poverty can be boundless in the sense that poverty entails so many subsections as it sometimes gets complicated to group everything under one umbrella. Society tends to focus more on the tangible aspects of poverty because many people associate poverty with lacking money and it makes sense because poverty in terms of lacking money is a major problem affecting almost every country in the world. Even though it is debatable that poverty can be physical, intellectual, spiritual and even emotional, it is best to talk about the lack of money and economic developments in this essay. With reference to the oxford English Dictionary, poverty is state of being extremely poor and the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. Reflecting on this definition given, I deduced that malnutrition and hunger can define poverty. In the light of this, I think poverty is lacking a comfortable place of shelter, being ill and not having access to a better

Despite living in poverty, it is a struggle and there are many causes for this, it has been said that those in poverty choose to live that way, often being called and/or labeled lazy or ignorant. Countless of those living in poverty are being treated like second-class citizens. Rather than staying in poverty and constantly living off others, they should get jobs, is a comment often heard. There are resources available to assist women, with education, daycare and housing to help women improve their future and the future of their children; poverty for women is at an all-time high in this country and getting a job is not always the only solution to this equation. Many people who live in poverty are often offered the jobs that are at a very low wage therefor one would not be able to improve their lives living on a minimum wage paycheck, often taking a job for minimum wage makes the poverty situation worse than it was before. I hope to show that it is possible to move past poverty moreover, that people do not choose to live that way. Many in poverty need to have the motivation to change, until they have that and are given an opportunity along with respect to lift their self-esteem, and know they are worthy human beings, they are being set up to fail before they even start.

In today’s day in age, it is very easy to worry about the desires and needs of oneself over the needs of others. People tend to follow the motto “Out of sight out of mind,” meaning that if it doesn’t affect them in some manner, they don’t pay much if any attention to it. This mentality raises many issues and concerns for people globally. If people would just take a minute to step back and look around to see what’s really going on in other countries, they would be in shock. Nations across the globe are suffering from terrorism, poverty, and famine. The people in those nations do not have access to medicine, clean water, food, education, and shelter. Both modernism and dependency theories can be applied to find possible solutions to the

Poor people tend to behave in ways such that the conditions of poverty are reinforced. Numerous studies have studied the effects of poverty, and they show that the poor are more likely to commit crimes, use more alcohol and drugs, borrow more money, save less money, and smoke more (Liska & Chamlin, 1984; Lynch et al, 1997). Furthermore, prior research has established that scarcity of money or time can lead people to make poor decisions (Mani et al, 2013; Shah et al, 2013).

Almost half of the entire world is so greatly impoverished that they live on less than $2.50 per day, and at least eighty percent live on less than ten dollars each day. With this much of the human population affected by such a terrible issue they must have a very strong will power to survive. The issue of poverty requires people to endure certain circumstances which could be similar to the ones shown in "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt or "The Street" by Ann Petry. McCourt demonstrates a mindset of survival by depicting a little boy stealing to provide for his starving family. Petry uses a single black mother in search of a new home while also facing a violent wind storm. The passages from "Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt and "The Street" by Ann Petry use characters, events, and settings to help prove the theme that when people are affected by poverty, they keep moving forward with the help of perseverance.