The economy serves as a guideline for daily living. Where we stand financially in society affects our decisions, perceptions, and how we interact with one another. The lower we are in class limits the amount of accessible resources, creating a more difficult struggle to live a happy and stable life. John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” and Medea Benjamin’s “Don’t Be Afraid Gringo,” illustrate how the financial struggles of the members of the poor class due to a lack of employment, education, and health benefits result in hardships, conflict, and drama. Ironically, it is these negative life experiences that ultimately engage readers, making the two stories thrilling page turners.
Hardship and Exploitation in the Harvest The Harvest is a play by Manjula Padmanabhan. This play focuses on an impoverished third world family and the hardships they experience because of Western exploitation. A main character of the play, Om, is a young man that is driven to the brink of desperation to provide for his family. He is so anxious for money, that he is willing to sell his organs to whomever is willing to pay. After his family finds out about his decision to sell his organs, things slowly begin to unravel.
This quote is important because it shows that people were a little disapproving of David’s left-handedness because it was odd or unusual. So people would be disapproving of a deviation. Women are often treated like they are less then the men and its there fault the blasphemies are created. Women don’t get to do much other then work in the home, they are not permitted to go out in to the fields and they have to stay home and do housework. When Aunt Harriet was talking to David’s mom about her deviated child said “this is the third time, they’ll take my baby
They’d spend every cent on themselves if I’d only let them. But Bessie spends nothing on herself.” Pg 46 While Mashah is worried about her, buying her own towel and toothbrush, while everyone else has to share. In this day parents are big into their children’s marriages. Reb does not want to let Bessie ho without something in return since he will be loosing all the income. “It’s not enough to take my Bessie without a dowry.
Humans beings go through a lot of troubles and obstacles every day of there life, some people go through more troubles than other people , the only thing that gives people a boost is the thought of coming home and spending time with there families. Sometimes people are to absorbed into there own world and they start to neglect the people they love and when people get neglected they start to change. In “ The Rocking Horse Winner” and “ The Jewels” it is shown how neglect can effect not only the one being neglected but the one who is doing the neglecting. In both stories the source of negligence was spousal dispute and because of this it lead to them being oblivious to their loved ones activities which eventually lead to their deaths. In
In today’s society children are plagued by several social conditions. Gangs, peer pressure, financial hardship, just to name a few. This is not new to society as the two short stories,” The Rocking Horse Winner” (1926) and “The Destructors” (1954) reveal through both similarities and differences. “The Rocking Horse Winner” and” The Destructors “show a similar theme of how children are impacted by their social status but differ in the way conflicts are resolved. There is an extended family described in the story of “The Rocking Horse Winner”, the family consisted of Hester, Paul’s mother, dad, Joan, unidentified sister and Oscar Creswel.There is also the gardener, Basset and the family nurse.”The Destructors” shared that similarity with a nuclear family, Mom, Dad and Trevor.
Started having bad luck and in order to dare with his failures in life, he started thinking about his past and it seem that he doesn't know what's real or fake in life. He try to relive the good old days he had in the past but the thing is that all wrong choices he made also started coming up in his mind as well. When his family notice what was going with his they try to help him by not telling him what was going on with their life and all the money problems they have. In addition, Wily lost his job after many years with same company. Gregor was a man who works hard to help his family for they can live well.
Esperanza has parents who were born into a life of poverty and have had to struggle throughout their life just maintain a decent living. Paul’s family lives in a mansion with servants and housekeepers whereas Esperanza has lived in multiple houses only to be left dreaming of a nice house to live in. The parents of Paul are very ignorant and selfish due to their ranking financial status as middle-class whereas Esperanza’s family is sharing and walk through life as one. If Esperanza struggles then the whole family will struggle with her to get her through unlike Paul’s parents where the mother will receive money and instead of spending it with her Paul and his father she would rather go shopping for herself. Esperanza and her family have more family values due to the fact they have been living the in the poverty level most of their life with nothing leaving them with only to each other to rely on.
The small pot is representative of their constricted lifestyle. Much like when a plant is placed in a small pot it is crippled and unable to grow large, the Younger family is being held back by the environment they are growing in. When Ruth announces that she is pregnant, one of Beneatha’s first responses is “where is he going to live, on the roof?” (58). Ruth realizes that her family has no way to provide for a new baby and she considers having the baby aborted instead of raising it. By having an abortion, she would be restricting the growth of their family because of their small space to live in.
Save the turf’ this shows us how the Mundy sisters are trying to envelope the fact that they are not stable as in that society it was patriarchal and needed a man to run the household as Jack is unwell they are unable to rely on him so he is more of burden on them . We can get a sense of injustice within the sisters as they feel they are treated unwell by Kate. Kate who is the dominate sisters within the family she has taken on both roles of bread winner and the mother figure and leaving the sisters to be filling in the gap of the male roles. ‘Two unpaid servants’ Agnes who is voicing for not just herself but Rosie as well gives us the feeling that she is dominant with Rosie or even more of a mother figure to her . ‘Rose and I’ this gives us a feeling of partition between the sisters as Agnes and Rosie have created a unit, this gives the audience the image of love and desperation as the sisters are affected by their financial situation as well as their personal .