Is Poverty Easy?
Is poverty easy? Some say yes and argue that the poor have so few things to worry about: food and shelter. People say that the poor have little money that they do not think what to do with it and who might be taking it away secretively. Yet, if one drives through their local downtown area and scans the area, one can see that being poor is not easy; rather it is probably the hardest obstacle in life. In George Orwell’s Down and Out In Paris and London, Orwell tells a personal experience with poverty and his outlook of it. Even Orwell himself, like many people, “thought it [poverty] would be quite simple.” But as the days past without adequate food and shelter he began to realize that “it is extraordinarily complicated.” Orwell’s first encounter with poverty was the lack of a social life. People on the streets would look at his clothes and then shun him. He suddenly realized his clothes put him “instantly into a new world” (129). He also noticed for the first time “how the attitude of women varies with a man’s clothes. When a badly dressed man passes them they shudder away from him with a quite frank movement of disgust, as though he were a dead cat” (129). I realize this phenomenon happening al
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Approximate Word count = 1197
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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