In Eugene Collier’s short story, Marigolds, the author used figurative language and diction to convey a serious and angry tone on poverty. Marigolds, a tale full of voice elements, addressed the theme of poverty with indignation and sincerity. Though Lizabeth, Collier narrated the story; it was about a girl recalling her life during World War 2 in a poor family. In the first example of voice element, Lizabeth described poverty as “the cage in which we all were trapped” (Collier 1). She uses this metaphor to explain how penury anchored her family.
Poverty is the extent to which an individual does without resources. These resources can be financial, emotional, mental, relational, knowledge of hidden rules, and spiritual. In order to for a person to leave poverty, it is necessary that the individual can be confronted and concern with his current state of life. Flannery O Connor gives us a good example of how poverty (or lack of resources) affects the humans’ decisions. In her story Parker´s Back, Flannery O Connor uses the theme of “poverty” by the description and mannerism of her characters, but also by using a casual-register story structure.
Mistaking Poverty Throughout the text, “Changing the Face of Poverty,” Diana George is certainly precise when claiming that the common representations of poverty limit our understanding of it. She expresses that most of our knowledge of poverty becomes misinterpreted due to advertisements, media, and images. Consequently, the way that we look at poverty focuses around that in which is in third-world countries, but poverty can be anywhere, even in your backyard. American citizens are the audience for the text, because Americans typically portray as being wealthy, happy people who are oblivious to the poverty-stricken areas surrounding them.
The Cycle of Poverty The concept of living paycheck to paycheck is easy to grasp, seeming to have infinite solutions; however, all the while, 60% of United States adults cannot solve this “easy” problem (“Today’s Paycheck”). The solution to this extremely common economic problem doesn’t take into account people’s real lives; it doesn’t take into account the type of environment someone grew up in or even take into account emergencies that families frequently face. The cycle of poverty revolves around the economic setting in which someone grew up or if they had a lack of education. In the novel, The Other Wes Moore, the author Wes Moore goes into details about both his life in addition to the other Wes’s life, including how poverty controlled
Through the use of repetition, Ms. Stanton
It was once said “six feet of earth make all men equal” (Anonymous) but why is it in Jonathan Kozol’s book Amazing Grace we see something completely different? Kozol takes his reader into the depths of poverty and racism by showing the reader the Bronx. Kozol makes a statement through pathos that America has a great problem that needs fixed and that problem is poverty and discrimination. Another theme that stood out is using children to show the lack of trust in police. Taken as a whole Kozol is trying to shine a light on how America has not let go of color of skin.
In Carol B. Stack’s book, All Our Kin, Stack journeys into The Flats, an African-American poverty-stricken community and she narrates her one on one experience with the community themselves. Stack observes that the black urban poor or any other poverty-stricken communities do not come into poverty from an individual’s experience but comes from middle and upper classes, due to their need for lower class labor, which they think is needed for the economy. Stack also talks about the lifestyle of the people in the Flats and their survival to live on within their community. Stack discusses the two pre-requisites that Stack claims that the poor need to accomplish in order to get out of poverty and also the treatment of the poor in the flats from the larger members of the society.
Author William Hazlitt illustrates the social and economic burden of poverty by using several rhetorical devices including exemplification, imagery, and compare and contrast. The author’s connotative use of diction and syntax establish his overall argument and purpose of the piece. Hazlitt structures the essay into three sentences, in which he sets up his argument into a
The use of literary devices helps the audience relate to the situation. Even when they do not get it, they can relate to the other things that is brought up by it. One type of device she uses is personification. She says, “ Climbing out of poverty by your own effort,” to get her point across. She is basically saying that she was so deep in poverty that she had to find a way out.
Why are people still poor to this day? That is a very broad question but we do know that poverty is still a crucial problem to achieving overall world happiness even in 2018. Poverty has been around for millennia but it 's even more of a problem now in 2018. This is because it is becoming more extreme. For example, in Afghanistan 36% of the population, lives in absolute, extreme poverty and 37% lives just above the determined poverty line.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, argues that poverty can affect one's whole life and can also affect their surroundings. Character’s that get affected by this and that live in poverty would be the Cunningham family. These characters are very affected by the theme of the story and it shows throughout the book. One event that shows that poverty can affect one’s life is when Walter Cunningham doesn't bring his lunch on the first day of school. His teacher, Miss Caroline then was confused to why he wouldn’t bring lunch and asked him why he didn’t bring anything to eat.
“What Is Poverty?” was an extremely touching essay. It pulled on the reader’s heart strings to help make them aware of what poverty is. The essay had a way of stirring the reader and hopefully receiving some results to the problem presented. Parker did an excellent job of reaching into the deepest part of the reader and drawing emotions from them. She was able to do this by her tone and imagery.
In the passage “What is poverty?”, the author Jo Goodwin Parker, describes a variety of things that she considers to portray the poverty in which she lives in. She seems to do this through her use of first-person point of view to deliver a view of poverty created by a focused use of rhetorical questions, metaphors, imagery, and repetition to fill her audience with a sense of empathy towards the poor. The author’s use of first person point of view creates the effect of knowing exactly what she is feeling. “The baby and I suffered on. I have to decide every day if I can bear to put my cracked hands into the cold water and strong soap.”
For example, her use of repetition of, “Poverty is…” throughout the essay keeps the reader interested and wondering what Parker will say next about poverty. She also uses metaphors to make the audience truly understand what poverty is. In the essay, Parker states “Poverty is an acid that drips on pride until pride is worn away. Poverty is a chisel that chips on honor until honor is worn away.” (3) these metaphors are very thought provoking and powerful, making you think about the impoverished in a new light.
“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity” (Chimamanda Adichie). My life, thus far, has truly been a unique work of literature. Unique enough as to where it can be divided into two separate books, for I have experienced both extremes of socioeconomic status. And with every piece of literature, comes those who form a concrete judgment by simply looking at the cover.
