Compare And Contrast Parker And Gordon Parks

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Comparison and Contrast of Parker and Parks Through Jo Goodwin Parker’s living conditions and Gordon Parks’ grief for poverty, it is said that poverty is hard to come out of. Parks is a man who has seen and experienced poverty. Parks expresses his “fierce grudge” against poverty and says it is “most savage of all human afflictions” (Parks 214). Parker is a woman who went through the worst poverty, similar to the family Parks visited. The two families have similar relations and different financial conditions throughout their poverty.
As Parks visit a family in Rio de Janeiro, Flavio’s family, he noticed the health and conditions the family lived in. He writes about Flavio’s family to signify his grief over poverty. Flavio has a large

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