What Is Poverty And A Women On The Street By Jeannee Walls

In the essays two wonderful stories are shared and then compared from their differences and similarities. The first story is “A Women on the Street” by Jeannette Walls. The second story is “What is Poverty” by Jo Goodwin Parker. “A Woman on the Street” is about a daughter that is willing to help her mother with financial problems, yet showing humbleness, self-appearance, and hopelessness. “What is poverty?” is about a woman that is telling you about what poverty means to the individual, yet presenting life situations, poverty stricken, and anger. The three similarities that are noticed between the two stories are Moneyless, self-appearances, and emotion. The three differences of the two stories that are found are settings, characters, presented …show more content…
The third difference would be the explanation of the how the two stories are told because Jeannette Walls’ story is presenting a daughter that is feeling self-hatred from seeing how her finical money is affecting her life but Jo Goodwin Parkers story it shows a lady that is giving her own opinion about poverty and how it affected her life. In the story “What is Poverty?” is started out with this, “You ask me what is poverty? Listen to me.” With her saying this, she is coming out front with her opinion and therefore people should listen. In Jeannette walls “a women on the street” presents explanations between two individuals that are more emotional staple because they are sharing life together no matter how horrible it would be. In Jo Goodwin Parker “What is Poverty?” the women is less emotional stable because she is going through the hard journey by