Cause Of Poverty In The Glass Castle By Jeannette

The Glass Castle The modern world views poverty as being a symbol of being uneducated or lazy. When you see someone who has little to no money you think of them as being stupid with their money, those are just some of the natural characteristics we put on people. “Which is the bigger cause of poverty today: that people are not doing enough to help themselves out of poverty, or that circumstances beyond their control cause them to be poor? Respondents were roughly equally divided between people not doing enough, (48 percent) and circumstances (45 percent)”. (1) In doing this research I found out that poverty is pretty much half to do with people just not doing enough, and half of the people because of personal circumstances. It’s hard to say what category Jeanette's family falls into because they do a little bit of both. Jeanette is smart and so are her parents, in the book it says despite being homeschooled she was very smart and was put into gifted classes. In doing my research I found out that most of the kids who struggle with poverty really focus in school

One of the many examples of poverty in the glass castle is the sacristy of food in the Wall household. Jeanette says “ I pretended to help Brian with his homework so nobody asked why we weren’t eating”.(2)The USDA estimated that 11.1% of US households were food insecure in 2018. This means that approximately 14.3 million households had difficulty providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources. Rates of food insecurity were substantially higher than the national average for households with incomes near or below the Federal poverty line.(3) There are so many examples of poverty in this book, another Big example is Christmas, like when they’d pick up used trees from the roadside and wrap small toys and trinkets in wrapping paper discarded by other