But consumers aren't helping their fellow countryman earn his own living by buying these imported items. Consumers are giving their hard-earned money to Walmart to go back to China to buy more items. (Smith & Young, 2004). Walmart has created new jobs for people when they open new stores, but they are underpaid jobs. Many of the positions are part-time, therefore, they are positions without benefits.
In Lithuania, its custom that guests at a wedding-feast leave money to cover the cost, but since they were in America, many of the guest leave the feast without leaving any money since money was being budgeted amongst each person due to the lack of jobs available. Jurgis, who has great faith in the American Dream, vowed that he will simply work harder to make more money so that they may pay off the debt and continue living in America without struggling. Jobs in Packingtown involve back-breaking labor, however, conducted in unsafe conditions with little regard for individual workers. Therefore, Jurgis quickly finds work since he is young and eager to work. The family signed an agreement to buy a house, but the house was poorly maintained so it was full of repairs which evidently would cost money that they didn’t have.
Lost Dreams: The Glass Castle One of the most important things that parents provide for their children is a stable background: a roof to sleep under, regular meals, and a sense of security. In fact, some turn to a faulty upbringing in order to explain violence, crime, drug abuse or general bad behavior in adult life. However, Jeannette Walls grew up with an alcoholic father and a shiftless mother, neither of whom provided for or protected their children. She was raised in a household where sufficient food was a rarity, traveling around from small town to small town, often living in conditions that to most would be unbearable; yet as an adult, she created a life for herself that she deems comfortable and stable. The Glass Castle is a stirring account of Walls’s childhood, her relationships with her family, and her ability to overcome all the hardships she was faced with.
He never really knew what it was like to have true friends. He was never rich as a child and never lived in a mansion like the kids at his school. He lived in an apartment with his mom. It was hard living with his mother in Canada while his father lived in Tennessee. What he went through as a child is astonishing and no one will ever know what he went through.
In some cases, prohibition worsened the need for alcohol. “Prohibition, however, had little effect on the liquor-loving public, and speakeasies, a type of illegal bar, cropped up everywhere” ( Novels 74). In the novel, Dan Cody educates Jay Gatz with all of his knowledge. Fitzgerald states “…it was from Cody that he inherited money—a legacy of twenty-five thousand dollars” (100). From the knowledge Dan taught him, Jay was able to make a fortune from what he calls “…a little business on the side, a sort of sideline” (82).
She was initially very happy to see her family, but is having trouble adjusting to being back home. She does not get along with Harold's mother and the two women argue constantly. She has been having difficulty sleeping, feels like she is "in a daze" much of the time, refuses to go into town saying it is "too noisy and too crowded," and doesn't seem interested in connecting with her old friends. When the children want to spend time with her, Shirley becomes irritable and says she is too tired. Tracy has been crying frequently since her mother has returned, and Ben disappeared for two days without telling anyone where he was.
His plan to become successful is to open up a liquor shop with his two friends, but he does not have the money he needs. This is why he wants the $10,000 from his deceased father’s insurance check. He asks to borrow some from his mother and at first
Frank never had any of this, though. His father spent all the money he earned on alcohol. For this reason Frank compares his father to these “fathers from heaven” by saying “where all the fathers bring home the money from the Labor Exchange and you don’t have to be running around pubs to find them” (McCourt 90). This shows that he used to worry about how much money the family had and if his father used to spend it on alcohol. It also shows how much he wanted a “father form heaven”: someone he could rely on to earn for his family and support him.
Miranda steps up and takes care her mom and two brothers. As a teenager it may seem hard to take care of your family. Her mom and her two brothers get really sick and shes the only one who can help out the her family. She has to clean the laundry by hand and clean the bed pans out. She does this all on her own.
It begins when the main character, a teacher at the Midwestern University, feels loneliness in his home and always wakes up frightened early in the morning. As every night, since he has nothing to do, he goes to a restaurant. The narrator relates to us the first memories of his childhood to the death of this father. Actually, as a child, he lives with his mother, a strong dark woman, his father, a fisherman, and his sisters in Nova Scotia. He remembers that they live in a big house, by the sea, where everything (especially the kitchen) is in order and clean thanks to his mother apart from his father’s room.