Theme Of Poverty In Our Society

Poverty in Our Society While everyone can agree that poverty is a problem in this world, not everyone looks at this issue the same way. In order for someone to truly comprehend the reality and struggles of what living in poverty are like, one must first experience it for themselves, this is where the author’s opinions differentiate. Although What is Poverty? and The Poverty of Equality present the common issue of poverty, they are very different in their point of view, their perspectives, and their experiences. In What is Poverty? and The Poverty of Equality, the authors present the common subject of poverty. In Parker’s essay, the readers are aware that this is the central theme due to the fact that the author repetitively …show more content…
In the first composition, What is Poverty?, the author has a better understanding of the issue of poverty since she presently lives in this economic state. The author shares her hardships of trying to single-handedly raise her children while earning an insufficient amount of money. “They did not suffer from hunger, my seventy-eight dollars keep us alive, but they do suffer from malnutrition” (Parker 3). The author shares her destitutions of raising her children, while also describing her “home” and the filthy circumstances which she has had to live through for being poor. She decries her mattresses as smelling like urine, not receiving the correct medical attention, and having to face cold, sleepless night in order to make sure her children do not burn to death in the fire she made keep them warm. In contrast to What is Poverty?, Moore and Ferrara do not have the same understanding of what it is like to live in actual poverty. Dissimilar to the first story, this excerpt does not include any personal experiences from the author, but rather examples of from stories and real life examples of communist countries and people. Not only do they give examples of other people and countries, but the authors make the unfair judgment of blaming the poor people of their own misfortune, not being able to comprehend that they might just not have the same luck. “…it is not fair to be the productive, the risk taking, or the hard working, to deprive them of what they have produced, merely to make the, equal to others who have worked less, taken less risk, and produced less.” The authors have not faced actual poverty, depriving them of being able to comprehend what it is like to work hard yet not make enough money. Although the authors were not able to truly comprehend the struggles of facing poverty, they used a more convincing rhetorical appeal, logos, in