I am from a meager family, with no money to pay for me, my sisters, or my brothers. While all of the other kids play games, such as pin the tail on the donkey, tag, and freeze tag, I am tirelessly working in my family’s fields, with the hope that we will get money from the crops that we sell. Sometimes, when I am working on the farm, I get lost in thought and go on dreaming about how life would be if my family had money, but I am awoken by my fathers large hand closing in on my head. “Walter!” he yells, “ what in Boo Radley’s name do you thing you are doing”! My family was hit the hardest during the Great Depression, leaving me without much money. Every minute of time on the …show more content…
Last year at lunch, I was the only one who did not bring any food to school, while all of the other kids brought Pizza and Rice to school. Many times, I was insulted and publicly shamed for not bringing any food. Right now, it is the first day of school. While life repeats itself, I am hoping for a good day at school, but I never know how things will turn out. I hate school because many kids always look at me as a target to pick on. As soon as I walked through the school grounds, today, I felt an aura of hate going throughout the atmosphere. Kids would look at me and point at me, as if I was a monster. Things started to get even worse when Ms Caroline saw that I did not have any lunch, and she asked me if I wanted a quarter to buy lunch in town. I really wanted to eat with the money that Ms Caroline Fisher offered to give me, but, coming from a poor family, I did not want to take anything that I could not give back. Right when I was about to respond to the teacher, Scout Finch goes up to the teacher and publicly shames me in front of the class. She goes on about how I’m a Cunningham and how Cunningham are poor good-for-nothings when compared to everyone else. What she does not understand is that it’s not