The town council in Dijon, France, stated: “In order to care for the poor begging creatures and poor children who go shrieking at night throughout this city, we will rent at the city's cost a barn or other place to put them for the night and to care for them as well as possible.” (Document 2). Although this response may at first seem sympathetic, a closer look at words such as “creatures” and “barn” imply that many of the poor during this time were treated like animals instead of human beings. Although the attitudes towards the poor varied during this time, these actions taken toward them were mostly negative. Various personages during this time period expressed a sympathetic and positive attitude towards the poor. One of them was Vincent de Paul, a Catholic
America in the 1930s was a world full of migrant workers and isolated individuals. In the novel we meet two characters that represent perfectly the theme of loneliness: Crooks and Curley’s wife. Crooks is the coloured stable-buck. He is isolated from the others because of his skin colour, “I ain’t wanted in the bunk house”, he feels like an outsider. The racial discrimination from the 1930s in America highly affects him, “ they play cards in there, but I can’t play because I’m black.
Haitian Child Escapees In the book Mountains Beyond Mountains, as Paul Farmer’s listener and recorder, Tracy Kidder heard Farmer “narrating” Haiti, drawing painful truths about the Haitian poor people’s misery from everything they encountered. Once Farmer narrated Haiti while performing a spinal tap for a Haitian girl: “Can you believe it? Only in Haiti would a child cry out that she’s hungry during a spinal tap” (Kidder 32). Readers could have felt like their hearts were being squeezed when realizing that, to a Haitian child, hunger is even more painful than the incredible hurt from a medical procedure. More generally, the poverty in Haiti seems so terrible that it can far outweigh even extreme physical pains.
A Destructive Society Exposed in Maggie In Maggie, Stephen Crane deals with poverty and vice, not out of curiosity or to promote debauchery but as a defiant statement voicing the life in slums. Drawing on personal experience, he described the rough and treacherous environment that persisted in the inner-city. By focusing on the Johnsons, Crane personalizes a large tragedy that affected and reflected American society as a whole. His creation of Maggie was to symbolize a person unscathed by their physical environment. Through Jimmie he attempted to portray a child raised without guidance who turned into his abusive, drunk father.
Hughes’s “Nergo” expresses A African American’s experience as a slave, worker, singer, and victim. Lastly Layton’s “Rhine Boat Trip” portrays the haunted memories and cruel actions performed during the Holocaust. The works describe the trail and tribulations endured through each individual’s experience. In these works, clashes are shown between the racial oppression and suppression through different perspectives and emotions. In Brooks’s “We Real Cool” the poem describes how a group of teenagers have dropped out of school and have turned to the street life and how they hang around and play pool rather than attending school to get an education.
Junior uses the example of his dog Oscar’s death to reinforce the extent of their poverty. Repetition is also use to inform us that they “came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people”. Alexie skilfully tows with our emotions as we empathise with junior pain of losing his dog. The death of Oscar who is so innocent is a symbol of the destruction that goes on in the reservation because of poverty. This realistic recounting of events is structured in a conversational style and draws us in as we live with junior.
Racism In To Kill a Mockingbird a reoccurring theme is racism. The story takes place in Maycomb, a small gossipy town infected with the disease of racism. The white supremacy of the town is evident and there are instances of racism everywhere. An example being when Scout, Jem, and Dill get run out of the Radley’s yard and the neighborhood’s first reaction is to assume a black person was trespassing with ill intent. When Jem asks what all the commotion was about Miss Maudie even says, “Mr.
Poverty and Immigration Poverty it's the main reason for immigration. Millions of people live on poverty around the world. They live in very bad conditions suffering for hunger and diseases. When children grow up in a house that is falling apart in a relatively poor part of town, they will often develop different mentally than the children who grow up in a decent house in a good part of town. Also poor neighborhoods could result very dangerous for children and adults they can be victims of crime and attacks and robbery.
The Head Master Piece When looking at this work of art by jean Michel Basquiat, the author sees that the artist way of describing this painting is a terrific way to display pain and sadness. In life, people have different ways of expressing themselves. The reflection in this painting means to the author that Basquiat is sad and seems confused at the world. The possibilities are that he might have had a rough childhood. The drawing shows a scary Skelton face that have different pattern around it full of sadness, pain, hurt and damage.
The reader is introduced to Sonny's secret against the pressures of life. It follows Sonny's past and present battles with evil, his triumphs, and his defeats. Short story, “Sonny's Blues”, James Baldwin presents a complex picture of jazz music, drugs, and growing up in Harlem as a means of coping with sorrow and fear. Inside short story, “Sonny's Blues”, Baldwin uses the image from the book of Isaiah of the “cup of trembling” to symbolize the suffering and trouble that Sonny has experienced in his life. He emphasizes the quickness at which the Harlem residents fall to the dangers of evil through the use of drugs and crime.