Summary Of Poverty In America

The author’s main point in writing this book is too educate people about what poverty is and how it is affecting our society today. She also writes different effective ways that we can change and help people in poverty. Beegle says her goal is to simply make a difference for those living in poverty and to give them real opportunities to do something great with their life. I think Beegle wanted to explain real world problems and tell her own personal story to explain what poverty really means to her. When reading this book and seeing all the statistics about how many families live in poverty I felt more and more blessed and I think that is what she wanted to get across to her audience. She also explains to her audience that not everyone has …show more content…
Some people can be working very hard but have to support their kids and themselves while being able to pay for house bills and other necessities. She wants her readers to understand how hard life can get and that the worst thing to do is to start shutting someone out and not offer the help needed.

Question 2: According to Beegle and her story, poverty is not being able to provide the necessities for yourself or the people around you. She describes how her parents never received any education beyond the eighth grade and this made them struggle to find decent paying jobs and support her family. When she was only fifteen years old she dropped out of school and got married to a man that only had a seventh grade education. She explains that with her family’s lack of education and knowledge she did not know any better and that is how she also ended up living in poverty. Shortly after getting …show more content…
People must make them feel like a normal human being and give them the confidence and motivation they deserve to succeed. People living in poverty have seen and experienced many things that most people have not and this can be a huge asset to them. They develop new strengths and characteristics that can be effective in getting a job or higher education. Communication is also very important in helping people out of poverty because they speak in they own slang and do not fully understand the “proper” way to speak English. Just by working with them and politely correcting them during a normal conversation can go a long way and make a huge difference. People need to build real relationships with people in poverty and actually prove they care about that person and their well-being. By showing you are physically and emotionally present in their lives can give them the hope and that little push into doing something with their lives. Growing up in poverty people are told they do not belong and they are worthless so obviously they have a negative attitude about everything but if people just took the time to find out the good things about them it could change their whole behavior. By developing relationships with people we are targeting the micro level because it is one on one training and mentoring with a certain individual. When Beegle was telling her own