Tuberculosis, typhoid and cholera were diseases that developed in many cities killing thousands. Adding to these unbearable conditions, air pollution and malnutrition became a huge and deadly problem. Crime, Alcoholism and prostitution started becoming natural outcomes for individuals that were dealing with these ongoing problems. Also not only the living conditions were unlivable, working conditions were even worse. Depending on the hours throughout the workday, workers shifts could be doubled and workers could be working up to six days a week.
The amount of gum that is stuck on the seats, handrails, and windows is getting out of hand. People are constantly stepping in or sitting on wads of bubblegum and ruining some of their expensive work and/or street clothes. Along with the dirt and garbage piling up, another big problem begins to grow: rats. The NYC subways are
“It’s her fur-ur which is so funny,” giggled the girl. “It’s exactly like a fried whiting.”(14) “Ah, be off with you!” said the boy in an angry whisper. (15) The two young people’s rude remarks made Miss Brill suddenly aware of her position in the park despite she had been looked at other old people the same way as the young people looked her. “Other people sat on the benches and green chairs, but they were nearly always the same, Sunday after Sunday, and –Miss Brill had often noticed—there was
The girls' attire and the fact that they seemed to be aimlessly wandering about the grocery store only brought more attention to themselves, especially since the beach was about five miles away. Sammy uses his imagination to help draw further details about the girls. As he continues to observe the girls with these new founded imagined details, he notices that
One of the major reasons for Holden’s depression is failing at many different things. Holden does not have any close friends to talk to and has a very hard time establishing long term relationships. Another cause for his depression is the death of his younger brother Allie, he has always thought that the world would have been better off if he had died instead of his brother. There are many reasons for Holden’s depression including multiple failures, having very few friends, and the death of his younger brother Allie. A large portion of Holden’s depression comes from failing multiple times.
Don't leave me!" (604) This did nothing in stopping Brother, he became angry that all his hard work and plans had been for nothing because in the end they all failed. Eventually he went back for Doodle who had never come, he yelled "Doodle! Doodle!" shaking him, but it did no use.
Mair is not like most people who are living with MS; rather she uses humor to describe her condition. Other people may just sit around because they have Multiple Sclerosis, but Mair does not let the disease stop her. For example she says, “I am a superb, if messy cook” in paragraph 11 as she describes her daily routine to lighten the mood of the essay. She continues with the lighthearted tone as she says “I am also an enthusiastic laundress, capable of sorting a hamper full of clothes into five subtly differentiated piles.” She uses this humor to prove to the reader that she is successfully living with the disease. She MS is a disease that will eventually take her, yet she still tries to live each day with no regrets as many people should do.
During their annual trip to Grandma's, Joe and Mary Alice go down to the Coffee Pot Cafe one day to enjoy some Nehi sodas. Mary Alice befriends Vandalia Eubanks, a skinny, pale seventeen-year-old who works there... Chapter 6: "Things With Wings—1934" Grandma is at the depot when Joe and Mary Alice arrive this year, but she has not come to meet them. Instead, she is seeing somebody off. Mrs. Effie Wilcox, her "sworn enemy," is moving away because the bank has foreclosed on her house. That day at noon dinner, the children regale their grandmother with the exciting news about the killing of the notorious John Dillinger back in Chicago.
This was a harsh time all over the world. Many people, such as the man in this story, did not know if they were “going to have dinner tonight”. Elisa was fortunate enough to be married to Henry – a prosperous farmer. She depends on her husband for financial security but she wishes this were not the case. Women in this time were expected to do work such as gardening, which Elisa does.
With Sammy watching them he ends up miscounting money for a customer and because of that the woman gives him a rude looks a seems to be a tad bit upset. Sammy lets that go though and continues to watch after the girls. Lengel the manager finds the girls in the store and it seems that it is offended by what they are wearing inside his grocery store. “Girls, this isn’t the beach”( Page 134) he says to them. Queenie responds with explain to Langel that her and her friends are there just picking up a few small things that her mother asked for.