Research Paper On Giggi

Before, she was a understanding, helpful, and modest person that loved her family and tried to make the best of things without showing her intentions. She did not want people's pity but would accept it in a rather strange way. When she went to the store joe told her she could pay him another day but she declined “I can pay you now, said the woman. Don't worry about it said joe lundy. He reached in his pocket and gave her two caramel candies wrapped in foil...she slipped the caramels in her purse but left the money.”[pg.6] The fact that the woman denied his offer but accepted the candy shows she does not want to be in debt of anyone and can afford her own living. Though she did not change much, she started to lack enthusiasm or any sort of energy “she sat by the stove for hours, not talking. In her lap lay a half-finished letter. A unopened book.”[pg.93] When the woman is alone for all that time it shows how she is no longer interested in what life has to over and is letting depression consume her slowly over

Racism had tainted her life from the very beginning. During her childhood she attended a one-room school for blacks only. She was only allowed to attend school for a short time due to the ailing health of

The Great Depression was a very influential era in American history, affecting many future generations. One of the most prevalent impacts it had on society was the extreme poverty that swept across the nation, affecting both people in cities and in the country. The main cause for this poverty was the mass loss of jobs among the middle class. Millions lost their jobs and consequently their homes. Families lived out of tents and cars in shanty towns or Hoovervilles. In these camps, many people didn’t have their basic human needs met, children and adults alike starved. They lived in clothes that were caked in dirt and tattered, too small for growing children and too cold for the frail elderly. Government relief programs attempted to help but offered little support to the now impoverished families of the millions that lost everything.

At the beginning all she did was dwell on the past. She thought about all the friends she lost and family and more. Like when it said in the story “They Moved to Cincinnati, where for a month she spent the greater part of every day in a room full of beveled glass windows, sifting through photographs of the life she’d lived and left behind.’’ it just showed how stuck in the past she was. She literally spent a month in her room looking at pictures. Like nothing gets better if you just don't try and hide from your problems. So nothing did get better until one day at the supermarket.

The Great Depression affected everyone and everything in America. It affected families, friends, businesses, jobs, cities, states, the entire country! But everyone, no matter whether they were a man, a woman, or an african american, was affected in different ways, some ways worst than others. Everyone who lived through the Great Depression had a different experience for themselves. The women had a tougher time surviving than the men. The white men got jobs faster than the african americans. The african americans were the first fired and the last hired.

However, with her alcoholic dad who rarely kept a job and her mother who suffered mood swings, they had to find food from her school garbage or eat expired food they had previously when they had the slightest bit of money. In addition, when bills and mortgage piled up, they would pack their bags and look for a new home to live in, if they could even call it a stable home, since they would be on the move so often. Jeanette needed a dad who wouldn’t disappear for days at a time, and a mom that was emotionally stable, but because she didn’t have that, she grew up in an environment where she would get teased or harassed for it. Jeanette suffered so much, that even at one point, she tried convincing her mother to leave her father because of the trouble he had caused the family already. A child should be able to depend on their parents for food and to be there for them when they need it, and when that part of a child’s security is taken away, it leaves them lost and on their own, free and confused about what to do next.

The area that she was living it was to expensive for them to afford the house. She could not afford with only one jobs. That is why she was looking for a second job. It was difficult to find a stable job. The jobs she got didn’t pay enough money.

Lastly, her family betrayed her by not listening to her side of the story after her sister told lies about her, and they betrayed her when they acted as if they did not care if she moved out of the house. In all of these actions, the family itself and certain members of the family are portrayed as uncaring, unsupportive, disrespectful, conniving, deceitful, and hateful to Sister. Through every action of the family, Sister is treated harshly, and she tries to not let this bother her. Yet, anger and bitterness build up inside of her until she cannot take it anymore. Consequently, it built up so much inside of her that it severely affected Sister so profoundly that she moved away from her home to get away from her family.

Through her childhood, Jeanette had to take care of herself a lot. In addition, being poor made her feel embarrassed so in her future she struggled

    The great depression was a time where unemployment was at an all time high and to add on to it people in the great plains faced another problem the dust bowl. In the great depression many kids from all over the country were told or felt like leaving their home because of hard time that have faced their homes because the money was scarce. So they road the rail looking for work and trying to make money for the family. These were kids that were faced with hardship and having to worrying about where their next meal was coming from, they didn't know were they were going or what they would spend the night.

The remainder of the poem's setting takes place in the United States, where the speaker and her family now reside. Living in the United States, the speaker's miserable tone results from the fact that she feels alienated from her children, but now they, "go to American high schools/ They speak English" (Line 8-9). English, a language she does not understand and is, "embarrassed at mispronouncing words" (Line 16). This barrier of language has broken off a major form of communication between her children and her. There once was a time when she would laugh along with her children as they told jokes, but now all she can do is, "stand by the stove and feel dumb, alone" (Line 11). The speaker's setting has distorted her self image. The fact that she now feels dumb is a completely different feeling from how she felt in Mexico where she, "understood every word they'd say" (Line 4). Yearning for that familiarity of the bond between her children and herself she, "bought a book to learn English" (Line 12). This is her only way to adjust to her new setting and because she feared that one day she, "will be deaf/ when (her) children need (her) help" (Line 21-22).

The Great Depression was a major breakdown in the American economy, and it left about 13 million people unemployed. People in stocks, banks, the economic world, and millions of people were affected by the downfall, and for ten years. Over 200,000 people migrated to California during the Great Depression, and in the 1930’s the dust bowl came. The dust bowl was a storm full of dirt and dust that happened because farmers were trying to farm quicker and this meant tilling, and turning the soil too much for the land. This meant a drought was on its way. In January 1932, 100,000 banks failed to do their jobs because the economy was doing so horrible.

The other times I felt bad for her was when she was alone. When I am alone, I tend to think of more depressing things, than when I am with someone. When she was with others, she could focus on them. When the author is alone, is when her thoughts turn to her husband, and the events that surrounded his death. She thought he would come back in the back of her mind. It was almost like a reflex. I am not going to move this item, because he would want it when he comes home. When I read that, it brought my attention to my own marriage, and how I react if my

When she got to school everyone was giving her a look like everyone knew she was poor, like everyone knew that she had to work a job, like everyone knew she was basically homeless. All she could do before she burst out crying was catch a glimpse of her best friend Morgan and make a dash for the bathroom. As she sobbed and sobbed she heard the

Her eyes looked like she had been crying for days, which she probably had. And his little brothers. They had a scared look on their face. They both looked at their mom and saw her at her lowest point. They had seen the most important person to them, crying, broken. His dad was lost, and in dismay.