““Their women worked themselves to death, their mules succumbed to worms and their children were crippled by rickets and perished from fever, but every Sunday morning The Word leaked out of little white-wood sanctuaries where preachers thrust ragged Bibles at the rafters and promised them that while sickness and poverty and Lucifer might take their families, the soul of a man never dies. White people had it hard and black people had it harder than that, because what are the table scraps of nothing?” (Bragg 4).
Rick Bragg discusses the hardships suffered by those in Piedmont, Alabama. All races suffered through poverty, and all of the races clung to the one thing that promised relief: religion. Almost all men and women, regardless of race, …show more content…
Those in poverty did physical labor daily, while the rich had time to relax. Being in poverty affected even his academic …show more content…
She said we were too different. I asked her what she meant and she said it was because I was poor and she was not” (Bragg 106).
Living an impoverished life in the South had many consequences on Bragg’s life. This quote is a good example of how reaching it was. His relationships with others were ruined thanks to poverty. In reality, he was the same as anyone. This highlights the “discrimination” done by the rich to the poor. The poor have the same core values as the rich and yet are treated with less respect. .
““They lived somewhere outside the basic decencies of America. Babies came to the county health department with ant bites that looked like measles. Others came with TB. Then they just disappeared again as their migrant parents moved on, chasing the seasons, leaving doctors to wonder what ever happened to the sick children. Twelve men lived crammed into a trailer meant for two. Prostitution was allowed, out of mercy. There had to be some relief. The people, fresh from the rainforests and death squads and endless slums, did not mind it so much. The town was called Immokalee. It means home” (Bragg
Rick Bragg discusses the hardships suffered by those in Piedmont, Alabama. All races suffered through poverty, and all of the races clung to the one thing that promised relief: religion. Almost all men and women, regardless of race, …show more content…
Those in poverty did physical labor daily, while the rich had time to relax. Being in poverty affected even his academic …show more content…
She said we were too different. I asked her what she meant and she said it was because I was poor and she was not” (Bragg 106).
Living an impoverished life in the South had many consequences on Bragg’s life. This quote is a good example of how reaching it was. His relationships with others were ruined thanks to poverty. In reality, he was the same as anyone. This highlights the “discrimination” done by the rich to the poor. The poor have the same core values as the rich and yet are treated with less respect. .
““They lived somewhere outside the basic decencies of America. Babies came to the county health department with ant bites that looked like measles. Others came with TB. Then they just disappeared again as their migrant parents moved on, chasing the seasons, leaving doctors to wonder what ever happened to the sick children. Twelve men lived crammed into a trailer meant for two. Prostitution was allowed, out of mercy. There had to be some relief. The people, fresh from the rainforests and death squads and endless slums, did not mind it so much. The town was called Immokalee. It means home” (Bragg