The great Depression
Imagine, you have a wonderful life with no problems other than having to get out of your squishy bed in your apartment in the morning, and driving your brand new car to work. Then, one day, your life takes a faster turn than a tornado. Your having to work all of the time with aches and pains, and you never have any free time. You can barely pay your bills, for you lost all of your money as if someone took all of the money you used to have and set it ablaze. This was the feeling that the people that lived through the Great Depression felt. The story Digging In by Robert Hansing, The New Deal, and the poem Debts Karen Hesse, all tell how the Great Depression affected many families …show more content…
The article The New Deal explains that in 1933 the FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) was created and gave $3 billion to states for work relief programs (352) This was a very large amount of money that went to programs other than going to people that really needed the money. Digging In also claims that instead of using toothpaste they used soda and instead of using toilet paper they used a catalog (Hasting 346.) This shows that the family was saving every last penny and even after that they still didn't have enough money for the life essentials that they needed. The poem Debts claims that the father was thinking of getting a loan for some new wheat for his farm (Hesse 350.)The father is wanting to get a loan becauses his whole family is so poor, and he doesn't even know when he will be able to pay off that loan. The story Digging In writes that in August the mother would find some used textbooks for that school year (Hasting 346.) The family was so low on money that they couldn’t even afford nice text books. Instead, they used old textbooks that could have been torn and ruined. Certainly, the Great Depression had a big financial effect on many
Imagine, you have a wonderful life with no problems other than having to get out of your squishy bed in your apartment in the morning, and driving your brand new car to work. Then, one day, your life takes a faster turn than a tornado. Your having to work all of the time with aches and pains, and you never have any free time. You can barely pay your bills, for you lost all of your money as if someone took all of the money you used to have and set it ablaze. This was the feeling that the people that lived through the Great Depression felt. The story Digging In by Robert Hansing, The New Deal, and the poem Debts Karen Hesse, all tell how the Great Depression affected many families …show more content…
The article The New Deal explains that in 1933 the FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) was created and gave $3 billion to states for work relief programs (352) This was a very large amount of money that went to programs other than going to people that really needed the money. Digging In also claims that instead of using toothpaste they used soda and instead of using toilet paper they used a catalog (Hasting 346.) This shows that the family was saving every last penny and even after that they still didn't have enough money for the life essentials that they needed. The poem Debts claims that the father was thinking of getting a loan for some new wheat for his farm (Hesse 350.)The father is wanting to get a loan becauses his whole family is so poor, and he doesn't even know when he will be able to pay off that loan. The story Digging In writes that in August the mother would find some used textbooks for that school year (Hasting 346.) The family was so low on money that they couldn’t even afford nice text books. Instead, they used old textbooks that could have been torn and ruined. Certainly, the Great Depression had a big financial effect on many