The young, twelve year old boy sat at the table while tying the string around the jars filled with blacking. The boy took a break. He knew that when he came home, he would basically come home to nothing. No family, no education or love. He was lonely and poor.
By 1350 there were some quite serious public health problems in towns, where the lack of fresh water and drainage was a problem which caused the water to be contaminated by other sources and was not healthy to drink. The government were not willing to donate funds to fixing this problem because they did not think it was their job to improve public health, but sometimes they passed laws requiring people to keep the streets clean especially in times when disease was common however these laws were difficult to enforce. Therefore, the Romans’ progress was not maintained. Meanwhile, animal excrement was common in the street and butchers slaughtered their animals and threw the remains on the streets which lead to disease and germs causing people to get sick. All this suggests that during the middle ages there was no progress in public health and that the standard of public health had gone backwards especially in the towns and cities.
The polluted world is shown through the panning shots of the streets portraying a dismal world with the no sign of the natural world. It is constantly raining possibly representing the depressed emotional disposition of the people who are trapped in this urban jungle. The inhabitants are always wearing coats and umbrellas which are used as a symbol of protection of the environment. These dismal settings and unnatural ways highlight the negative consequences that occur when humanity ignore their responsibility to the unnatural world and the environment. Scott shows his growing concern that this will be the future of humanity if we continue thriving on consumerism and economical growth and neglect the natural world.
Whistler had been alarmed at the prospect of going all the way to the river because the drought had left him ill and weak. He was very grumpy and he kept
Life in poverty is hard enough without having to worry about a civil war in your country, let alone around the corner from your village. And also having to flee from town to town in search for safety, leaves him in charge of finding ways to survive by any means necessary. “Things changed rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control over anything. We had yet to learn these things and implement survival tactics, which was what it came down to.” (Beah Chapter 4, p. 29 His mental state of mind becomes a major internal conflict and also is a product of all the environmental conflicts that he is put through. His internal conflicts include not being able to go back home, not knowing what happened to his family, if the
However…further on in that paragraph it says what Arthur Kipps imagined it would have been like. “How drear and grey and bleak the place would be in the dank, rain and mist, how beaten and battered at days on end by those gales that came sweeping across the flat, open country, how completely cut off by blizzards” He thought of it as the complete opposite to what it actually is. Rain and mist makes it sound mysterious and depressing. He seems like a dark person in this
The workers are unable to get government relief because they have not lived in the state for a year. Weakened by hunger, many resort to begging and stealing. The pity of the townspeople for the starving workers soon turns to fear. The only person in town who is busy is the
Food shortages were spreading throughout and people were easily getting susceptible to sickness and disease. Also harsh winters, long periods of rainfall and wet seasons deceased the production of food. It was a chain reaction of unfortunate events. There was no food, people were not eating, they were getting sick and dying at a rapid pace and very soon a plague would eventually kill more. This was a tough time
Our journey got more and more difficult with the rain pouring down on us. It became harder for the wagon to get through the mud and rivers were over flowing and rushing
They weren’t allowed to do anything that white people were allowed to do, they were discriminated. They were abused on a daily basis. They were not allowed to do many things, like speak without permission, leave there owners property or attend church. They were not allowed to have an education either. They had to work out in the fields in extreme weather conditions.