Poverty Doesn T Work Hard In Angela's Ashes And The Street

Jack is a single parent with two children and just lost his job. Now he doesn't have income and he has to feed himself, his children, and needs to pay his rent. To make it worse he is kicked out into the cold of winter with only his children's frozen hands to cling to. This could happen to anyone and some examples are in Angela's Ashes and The Street. The stories Angela's Ashes and The Street use characters, events, and setting to show that poverty forces people to work harder than usual.

In Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt shows poverty makes people work harder than usual. Make Court uses his character to show that poverty makes you work harder in interesting scenarios. Frank McCourt recorded in his Memoir "we will all be able will all be dead for the want of bread. I put on my shoes and run" (McCourt 3). This passage shows that make McCourt’s poverty made him work to get food for his family. This passage shows that course poverty made him work to get food for his family. He shows poverty through the setting. McCourt records in his memoir "there is no more bread and we're hungry"

Ann Petry's Lutie Johnson is used to show poverty. Lutie "shivered as the cold fingers of the wind touch the back of her neck" (Petry 3). This passage shows Lutie working harder than usual and fighting the cold because of her poverty. Petry's Johnson settles for less because of her poverty. Johnson finds a sign that reads "Three rooms, steam heat, parquet floors, respectable tenants. Reasonable" she responds (Petry 3). This quote is an example of poverty because she has to settle for "reasonable". Lutie Johnson works harder than usual. Lutie marches through "a cold November wind" (Petry 1). This shows that in poverty you have to work harder than usual. Lutie Johnson worked harder than usual when she marched through "a cold November wind", had to fight the cold and had to settle for