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Whom does Riis find responsible for the poverty of New York City?
In Jacob Riis’s book, How the Other Half Lives we see many examples of how immigrants lived in New York City in the late nineteenth century. ...
The living conditions described by Riis in the New York City tenements were very disheartening. ... Riis makes a great point in saying, “the proprietors frequently urged the filthy habits of the tenants as an
excuse for the condition of their property, utterly losing sight of the fact that it was the tolerance of those habits which was the real evil, and that for this they themselves were alone responsible” (p. ... However, they were not interested in the daily lives of the immigrants. ... For most of the children, they did not know any other way of life. ... Riis demonstrated the conditions of the tenements in the
book so that it may spark willingness for the higher social classes to take action and save the immigrants from poverty.
Approximate Word count = 772
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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