Jacob Riis How The Other Half Lives Sparknotes

In the book How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis, the book is a photojournalism about the slums in New York during the 1880s. The book also served a purpose by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class. Although most of the book takes place in Mulberry Street, throughout the book it would mentioned other streets, like Fourth Ward, Houston Street, Chatham Square, Six Ward, Cherry Street, and more. In chapter three, The Mixed Crowds, in the book it explains how the map of the city is divided by colors, because of how diverse the region is. The book states, “the map show more stripes than on the skin of a zebra, and more colors than any rainbow.” The color green represents Irish, color blue represents Germans, red represents

For example if old tenements are fixed death rates would go down, because the tenements would be bigger, receive direct sunlight, and have ventilation around the tenement. Another way in order for death rates to decrease would be to clean streets. Throughout the book Jacob Riis gives awareness how kids should also be clean, in order for their health. As well as how native born whites should stop hating Asians, for they could not do nothing to change the fact that Asians have come to the United States just like other ethnic groups. By reading the novel, the reader could interpret several themes throughout the book. However the main point in the novel is to examine how several people in New York had to live in small dirty tenements, because they received a low income. The book states, “Long ago it was said that ‘one half of the world does not not know how the other half lives.’ That was true then, It did not know because it did not care.” However after Jacob Riis tour around New York’s slums and written a book about it, inspiring reforms changed severals ways throughout the

As a muckraker, Jacob Riis wrote about his journey through the New York slums which is described in the book How the Other Half Lives:Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890). Thus, using his research and experience in New York, Jacob Riis establishes a strongly supported novel that, which is based on his first hand experienced information that he gathered while touring through Mulberry Street and several other streets, to better understand the hardship of