The Great Depression Donald Justice Analysis

Imagine being so poor you sell your children, your living on the streets. That's how life was for people during The Great Depression. Life during The Great Depression was challenging time for many. A lot of children couldn’t even go to school because they needed to get jobs to help with the income of money for their family. Most children were malnourished. It all started when the stock markets crashed then became a lot worse when the banks all closed and lost of their clients’ money. Life was hard for everyone socially and economically for everyone all around.

In the poem “Phantom of the Great Depression” by Donald Justice it really gives you an emotional feel of how it was during the Great Depression. In the first line it talks about people avoiding tragedy by going on and on with their lives. When the author says that it makes me picture a family that goes day …show more content…
I think that’s ridiculous. People cared so much that they were even wasting money to segregate the blacks and whites even more than they already were. They were wasting money on making sure they didn’t get black people germs while they could’ve been helping families that were selling their children. The white people water fountains were refrigerated and cold while the black peoples water fountains were not. No one can help what they look like, but I’m sure if they could help it, they would be white to escape the terrible life you would have if you were black during the Great Depression. I don’t believe people should be treated differently based on things they cannot control. This picture shows how spoiled and ungrateful America was. While countries have been overcome with death and disease America is over here making sure they don’t make contact with people that have a different skin color. We could’ve been helping the other countries, but no we would rather argue about how you are less of a person if you had a darker