Lalee's Kin And America Hallow Comparative Essay

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America Hallow and LaLee's Kin both deals with poverty; however, they both have different backgrounds in the movies.America Hallow is about a Southern families, who lives in the rural South of Kentucky. The Bowling family being live in the hollow for seven generations.While LaLee's Kin is referring to an another Southern families, who lives in Mississippi Delta after the abolition of slavery. LaLee's Kin have another side story about Reggie Barnes, the superintendent of the West Tallahatchie school system,trying to get the school out of probation by raising up test scores.

America Hallow shows the life of Iree Bowling ,the matriarch of a families who lives deeply in the hollow of Kentucky. She and her families survive with the help of monthly welfare checks from the government. Iree and Bass has 13 children and grandparents to 34 grandchildren. Iree didn't go to school much because her father always abuse her mother and she just still at home to watch over her mother. It also seems that some of the men in the families do abuse their wife. Many of the men have left the area to try to make a living elsewhere, but most have
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She and her families been live in Tallahatchie County for a long time. Laura has to raise many of her grandchildren while her children is gone. She struggles to make earning living by cooking lunches for people working in local cotton factories. Some men in the families either got kill or leave the families. Meanwhile Mr. Barnes is struggle to removed from the probation from the school, so the state can't take over by improving the test scores.Granny trying to keep her grade up, but she has so much responsibility. In the end, Mr.Barnes got the school out of probation and try to improve up to 3 points.Granny end up move with her grandfather and her grade has

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