Poverty
...eans struggling to keep your children alive by providing them with food that they need. It is asking for help when you know your children will suffer unless you get it. Jo Goodwin Parker wants her readers to understand the struggles she faced while living in poverty. People who live in poverty are faced with tremendous obstacles in their daily lives. Wealthy individuals should never come across to “judge a book by its cover”; they do not realize how people in poverty struggle just to barely get by. The poor remain silent because unlike the wealthy they have no power. Jo Goodwin Parker wants her readers to understand the struggles she faced while living in poverty. People who live in poverty are faced with tremendous obstacles in their daily lives. Wealthy individuals should never come across to “judge a book by its cover”; they do not realize how people in poverty struggle just to barely get by. The poor rem...