Dubliners: Theme Analysis Theme Analysis Poverty Although Joyce was born into a well-to-do family, his father's drinking soon drove the family into poverty. As a result, poverty is one of the major thematic concerns in Dubliners. Although Joyce never refers to his characters as "poor," he shows us their status through details. For instance, in "Two Gallants," Lenehan's abject poverty can be observed by the meager meal he consumes. He hasn't eaten since breakfast and late at night while he waits for Corley to return with money, he orders a meal of peas and vinegar with a bottle of ginger beer for his dinner.
On the other hand, some would disagree and argue that the cause of homelessness is because the economy is bad. Every time the economy goes south, the cost of living remains the same or goes up. For example, when the economy is bad, a large number of people always lose their jobs. With job loss, there is always the threat of becoming homeless if they cannot find another job
It’s not just people that are homeless, no food or clothing. Poverty can be describes in many different ways. People who may not be able to make their bills each month are in poverty. People who just have financial difficulty once a year are in poverty. People who have material problems that don’t have medical insurance, so they cannot go to the doctor are in poverty.
I know that if you eat too much acidic food than you can get wicked bad heart burn to the point it feels like your heart is on fire. This movie would definitely change how I eat at Mcdonalds!, no more chicken nuggets for me after I saw how they made them. Morgan had started to have very bad chest pains once he started to eat all of the Mcdonalds in one month. It was hard to believe that there were seventeen different Mcdonalds in New York City in that little town. People say that it is Mcdonalds fault for them gaining weight, but what they don’t understand is that they have the choice wether they should eat it or not, or even how much they eat.
Some parents avoid shelter life, by splitting up the family and sending their children to stay with relatives, while they fend for themselves. It happens all too often. As you can see families that are experiencing homelessness are under considerable stress. But Is this a real problem in America? According to the National Center on Family Homelessness in March 2010 about 250,000, that’s a quarter of a million people in families are homeless.
It’s difficult to conceptualize how some people hold multiple jobs to support their family and continue to struggle to pay for life’s basic necessities. Tara faces difficult choices, as a single-mother of two children, most of the time she does not have enough money to cover the bills and the rent. They sometimes cannot afford to buy food. Other times, they may have to go without needed prescriptions drugs she takes for high blood pressure. It is a constant struggle, Tara as a hospital food service worker, making a gross income of just over $20k per year.
If I were homeless I would want people to know that every night I would wonder if I will have food tonight, or if I’ll have a structure over my head, will I wake up or will I die tonight. Well that happens every day and no one cares or doesn’t bother. It is going on and will still go on forever unless our generation does something about it. To prove this there are three to four million people in the U.S.A. who are homeless, maybe more because all people cannot be counted. Forty-five percent are single men, fourteen percent are single woman, forty percent are families, thirty-three percent are veterans who have served are country and are known homeless, thirty three present are children who under the age of 18.
He states that the worst thing about being poor isn’t because of not having enough food but not having enough money to support him in difficult times. He even motivates himself by thinking “being hungry makes food taste better” (8). The worst thing happened to him that makes him hates being poor is when his family doesn’t have enough money to bring their dog to the doctor. By saying “I want to hate dad and mom for our poverty. I wanted to blame them for my sick dog and for all the other sickness in the world.” Although he doesn’t want to blames his parent and their previous generation to have born in a poor situation, he doesn’t have any order choice.
Teresa Graham English 111-0DJ Oct. 19, 2011 Teresa Graham English 111-0DJ Oct. 19, 2011 Working but Still Living in Poverty Many Americans work full time jobs but are living in poverty because of the recession, rising food cost, and government cuts. These situations are making it hard for Americans to make it in everyday life. They have to even sometimes beg for food for their families. So many people living in the United States have full-time jobs but the pay is minimum wage. With the economy in the shape it is, it makes those full-time jobs seem like only part-time jobs.
This means that people are not getting enough money to help buy food and decent homes for their families. Also 10 percent of the people are unable to even buy a meal a day. Others cannot afford to eat and they have to hope for charity from neighbours and