JC Murray
Mrs. Parkinson
English IIIB
12 April 2016
Poverty
in America
For
Lars Eighner poverty wasn’t just something he experienced, but it was what he
experienced every day for years. He was able to find a way to beat poverty
something that is not really heard of because most people who are in poverty
are okay with it and don’t attempt to get out of it. He uses many pathos in his
article to show the readers how tuff his life was during this time and what he
was doing to get through it.
When
being homeless you have little to no money to your name. No house. No clothes.
No nothing. This can be seen in the article when he said, “Except for jeans,
all my clothes came from Dumpsters” (Eighner, 713). This for one shows us that
he couldn’t afford clothes so he found clothes and wasn’t letting money get in
the way of being clothed and warm and it also showed him trying to appeal to
our emotions through showing us how he literally could only afford pants to
wear and that’s it.
Eighner
touched on a point I made before about money in his article when he said, “Can
scroungers, then, are people who must have - small amounts of cash. These are drug
addicts and winos, mostly the latter because the amounts of cash are so small”
(720). Eighner in this quote basically calls out all the people who
are homeless and aren’t trying to improve their own conditions and appeals to
our emotions by showing us that people who are willing to go the distance will
make it out of poverty and rebound into society.
