The Three Joys and One Misfortune

Jeannette is very insecure about her past life of poverty, and although she has now dug herself out of the rut of destitution, her parents’ continued homelessness is always a reminder of

Jeannette always admired her parents despite the way that they chose to live. Even though both parents were both intelligently capable, they chose to live homeless. They both chose their own welfare over their children. With parents like hers, Jeannette took what good she could from her

Though Jeannette gave her all to support her family, she did the same for herself without anyone’s support. She understood what it was meant to be poverty at a very young age and realised that she could not have what others did. While Jeannette didn’t have money, she was smart and resourceful to achieve whatever she could for herself. When Jeannette was young, she had already decided that if she wanted to do something for herself, she was going to have to do it herself. An example of this was when she herself to have buckteeth, and promptly said, “I decided to make my own braces,” and she did (Wall 200). In spite of Jeannette being underprivilaged and with less money, she found ways time and time again to succeed.

Ten year after her second marriage happiness surprised Julia, she knew the man who  became her third husband. The true companero for the women she had become.    The “first Muse” by Julia Alvarez show us that we have to overcome our obstacle in  order to get successful. Julia had to deal with a dictatorship and bullying at her school but that  didn’t stop

As a child, Jeannette’s sense of wonder and curiosity in the world undermine the need for money. During her young adult years, a new wave of insecurity associated with her poor past infects her. Finally, as an experienced and aged woman, Jeannette finds joy and nostalgia in cherishing her poverty- stricken past. It must be noted that no story goes without a couple twists and turns, especiallydefinitely not Jeannette Walls’. The fact of the matter is that growing up in poverty effectively craftsed, and transformsed her into the person she becomeshas become. While statistics and research show that living in poverty can be detrimental to a child’s self-esteem, Jeannette Walls encourages children living in poverty to have ownership over their temporary situation, and never to feel inferior because of past or present socio-economic

Her dad carried her away from the hospital without payment, and then her mom permitted her to cook again, moreover she said, “ Getting right back into the saddle” ( Glass Castle 47). Jeanette was not angry at such young age and soon the family had to pack their belongings into bags and “do the skedaddle” as her parents always said. The parents were fleeing from bill collectors. Although Jeanette's father was an alcoholic, he could get work almost anywhere, often in small towns. The family was moving because of these things, she never complained when they did not have enough food. Jeanette always forgave her parents, she understood what they were going through.

She said phrases such as “God will see those who waste their live reading useless books when they should be about their work” (MacLeod267). The general disapproval of education closed any possible doors for the family to improve their situation. The son was clearly struggling with getting an education because he would “wonder at [his] own stupidity in thinking [he] was somehow free and go on doing well in school” (MacLeod271). The son is not doing well in school but the mother, thinking the books were useless, does not care about him struggling in school. Perhaps if she were to get a job to help support the house her son would be able to get a better education instead of being forced to become a fisherman and barely support the family. The mother made it border-line impossible to further education when she would “slap [his] youngest sister so hard that the print of her hand was scarletly emblazoned upon her daughter’s cheek while the broken-spined paperback fluttered useless to the floor”(MacLeod271). Confidence is fundamental to further ones future but when your schooling has been oppressed confidence in it scarce, making it difficult to trust yourself to become any future job opportunities involving education and no physical work. Even if any the family members became very successful the mother would not accept any help from someone who is not a fisherman. The mother thinks their family having to work for their family in physical labour is how life should be, even if

Her Mother seemed to be more put together than her father at times, even getting a job at one point helping the family out. Though her mother was a hedonist and did not contain the motherly love and sacrifice for her kids, this job helped Jeanette’s future. She helped grade papers which increased her knowledge of the outside world and “...the world was making a little more sense” as she read the papers and projects of her mother’s students (Walls 205). Her parents had such an opposition to the outside world that she hadn’t gotten every aspect of

At first, Lizabeth and her brother did whatever kids do. They played, hung out, and did not care about the hardships they face. But Lizabeth later realizes the situation she is in when she overheard her parent’s conversation of their struggle to find essentials. In the conversation, Lizabeth’s mother says that “everybody out of work now” in order to comfort her husband, who complained about not having a job and not being able to support his family (Collier 128).

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.

Everyone at, at least one point of their life has had problems with how their society is. It’s one of the hardships of growing up and living. It’s something we’ve all been through, weather its not fitting in, peer pressure or disagreeing with how our media treats others. In our 3 short stories, our main characters all deal with one really vague common theme. Richard from “Rights to the Streets of Memphis”, Jing-Mei from “Two Kinds”, and Danny/Tingo from “The Last Spin”; all deal with the fact that society puts too much pressure on their youth, so they all end up doing something they don’t want to do.

However, when their mother came through the door and told them of a hungry family, the 4 women did not hesitate in giving away their luscious breakfast to those in need. The children delivered the food to the family and “a poor, bare, miserable room it was, with broken windows, no fire, ragged bedclothes, a sick mother, wailing baby, and a group of pale, hungry children cuddled under one old quilt, trying to keep warm”(24). The sisters realize what a harsh environment they live in, and because the setting is so pessimistic, they try to share the little wealth they have so that everyone may live long full lives. The setting in which they live, houses many people who have even less wealth than their own family. However, because of this dreadful place, they try and make sure that their community, or their family, is taken care of, even at the expense of their luxuries.

Parker’s perception of poverty Joe Goodwin Parker’s essay “what is poverty?” is about parker who has personally experienced poverty from disturbingly close proximity. She has been forced into life not easy to live or deal with. It summarized her ideas of the true definition of poverty. It describes who the poor are and how society’s stereotypes are injustice. It expresses the struggles of living with little funds while taking care of three children.

The Loisels began to live a life of crippling poverty. They dismiss their servant and move into an even smaller apartment. Monsieur Loisel works three jobs, and Mathilde spends all her time doing the heavy housework. This misery lasts ten years, but at the end, they have repaid their financial debts. Mathilde’s extraordinary beauty is now gone: she looks just likes the other women of poor

the older families, without having to have money, still held their positions. This young aunt was full of charm and talent. If she had had to earn her living, she probably would have developed this talent into something useful professionally. But since she did not have to, she always remained an amateur. She was much sought after, and she could see little use in having to look