The book Evicted is a story about the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee, Matthew Desmond tells devastating stories of the eight families that faced eviction. In this locality, eviction has become a daily event and families spend most of their income on accommodation. Arleen the single mother who tries her best to raise her sons gets evicted just a couple days before christmas by Sherrena, the landlord who thinks that love does not pay the bills and has a successful real estate business because most of her tenants are below the poverty line. These families fate is being held by Sherrena and Tobin Charney, who's the owner of the trailer park that was forced to evict tenants from his park by common council if he wants to keep his licence. Scott was a nurse before he got addicted to heroin, he lived with his best friend, Teddy. Tobin gave them an eviction notice after office Susie tells Tobin that Pam and Ned were staying with Scott and teddy. Lamar, a man who has prosthetic legs, lives in the neighborhood and looks over Luke and Eddy, his sons. Desmond’s discussion in Evicted is successful because he uses his own writing style, interesting discussions, speaker organized , and reality. …show more content…
I enjoy reading Evicted very much for the reason that the emotions that were put into the texts make me think what if I were them. The author, Desmond uses easy language to understand as to get along with and feel the meaning of it.. I think that nobody should face eviction “it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.” ( Desmond) All of the families are spending almost everything they have on rent, and all of them have fallen
The Squatter and the Don was written by María Ruiz de Burton, with the pen name of C.Loyal. Ruiz de Burton was an Mexican-American writer born in 1832, in Baja California. As a writer, María Ruiz de Burton was the first author who write in English. During her writing career, there are few works, of which, The Squatter and the Don is the most famous and the most influential literary piece. As what has been mentioned at the beginning, The Squatter and the Don was published under the pen name of C.Loyal, which was an abbreviation of “Citizen who is Loyal”, and which stands for the political appeal that María Ruiz de Burton advocated toward local government in the nineteenth century. By using this name,
While reading Amazing Grace, one is unable to escape the seemingly endless tales of hardship and pain. The setting behind this gripping story is the South Bronx of New York City, with the main focus on the Mott Haven housing project and its surrounding neighborhood. Here black and Hispanic families try to cope with the disparity that surrounds them. Mott Haven is a place where children must place in the hallways of the building, because playing outside is to much of a risk. The building is filled with rats and cockroaches in the summer, and lacks heat and decent water in the winter. This picture of the "ghetto" is not one of hope, but one of fear. Even the hospitals servicing the neighborhoods are dirty and lack the staff that is needed for quality basic care. If clean bed sheets are needed the patients must put them on themselves. This book is filled with stories of real people and their struggles. Each story, though different in content, has the same basic point, survival.
George Saunders, a writer with a particular inclination in modern America, carefully depicts the newly-emerged working class of America and its poor living condition in his literary works. By blending fact with fiction, Saunders intentionally chooses to expose the working class’s hardship, which greatly caused by poverty and illiteracy, through a satirical approach to criticize realistic contemporary situations. In his short story “Sea Oak,” the narrator Thomas who works at a strip club and his elder aunt Bernie who works at Drugtown for minimum are the only two contributors to their impoverished family. Thus, this family of six, including two babies, is only capable to afford a ragged house at Sea Oak,
In America the topic of homelessness is one that is rarely discussed. The ongoing issues faced by the less fortunate of society continues to be viewed as a public nuisance versus a problem that is in need of viable solutions. John Grisham’s “Somewhere for Everyone” and “Same Kind of Different as Me” written by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent explores the issues from various viewpoints. The two books are more of similarity than that of difference since they discuss similar themes Poverty and suffrage are key elements of both pieces of literature. A root cause for homelessness is financial stability so the theme of poverty prevalent for this discussion.
Baldwin gives a vivid sketch of the depressing conditions he grew up on in Fifth Avenue, Uptown by using strong descriptive words. He makes use of such word choices in his beginning sentences when he reflects back to his house which is now replaced by housing projects and “one of those stunted city trees is snarling where our [his] doorway used to be” (Baldwin...
It’s shown satirically on television, made fun of in music, and joked about in day-to-day activities: being homeless. I don’t understand what’s so funny about being homeless. The struggle to stay alive in an uninviting climate with nothing but the clothes on your back, doesn’t seem very fun. Yet in the media, being homeless is still treated like a joke. In the essay “Homeless” by Anna Quindlen, the reader is shown what it truly means to be without a home. My view on the struggles that homeless people have to endure is very similar to that of Quindlen’s in her essay, which perfectly captured the reality of what it is like to be without a home, and what it truly means to be homeless; while simultaneously demonstrating to me the negative effect
More specifically, an affordable home. The meaning of this word affordable changed a lot throughout this book, as Ehrenreich’s wealth also fluctuated. With such fluctuations, she struggled to maintain a steady household, and thus she was constantly moving houses. This issue is the case for many Americans, and the reason homelessness is so prominent in American society. Many homeless Americans work jobs, but that is only enough to pay for food, and the other bare necessities. Housing, on the other hand, is quite expensive, especially for someone working a minimum wage job. The struggles EHrenreich faced in this novel, are an everyday routine for most Americans. The social issue of homelessness is one that is greatly related to poverty, as well as power. When certain citizens gain greater control over others, the oppressed people continue to fall into an abyss of failure, i.e.
These people, known as the Edgewater homeless, all come from different backgrounds and all have their own story. Even though the community is widely diverse, they share two commonalities: homelessness and addiction. Homelessness and addiction became the basis of their culture. Using firsthand interviews and accounts, this book illustrates the everyday struggles that the homeless population face. Schonberg and Bourgois give the oppressed an opportunity to have their voices heard. The lives of the Edgewater homeless were portrayed through characters like Frank, Sonny, Carter, and Tina. By allowing the voices of people who are actually living in the situation, such as the Edgewater homeless, a larger voice is given to the homeless community around the
Her heart grew weaker and frightened as she began to realize that her life was about to take a new turn for the worse. Sam’s prolonged care had depleted the couple’s savings and she was two months behind in the rent. The word “eviction” was flashing in her mind like a red neon sign and it sent shivers of panic up her spine. Oh, God! What am I going to do?
The urban removal of citizens without warning and without compensation is a major problem in Rio and numerous of Brazil’s other cities. Living in close proximity highly valued land and the fact that these communities often lack the organization to defend themselves legally, the evictions target the poorest members of Brazil’s society. Numerous media outlets have covered these stories over the last couple years, with similar scenarios happening throughout.
Quindlen, Anna. “Homeless,” The Brief Bedford Reader eleventh ed. Ed. Kennedy, X.J., et al. Boston: Bedford, 2012. Print.
developing effective policy interventions. In understanding that black women experience the highest eviction, we can look at the historical and sociological reasons black women have always been a part of a disadvantaged group. One weakness of Desmond’s research is even though the data shows that black women are overrepresented in eviction records in proportion to their representation in the general population, there was no direct connection that it was the sole reason black women were evicted.
The Tenants is one of the most accomplished novels from a writer Malamud who is one of the finest post-war American novelists. The novel describes the confrontation of two writers – one Jewish, the other African-American and probes into the nature of the art of writing. His novels exhibit an interlacing of fantasy and reality with equal importance on moral obligation. The setting of the novel at issue is New York City, where the theme of self exploration is gradually developed through the contrast between two writers, one Jewish and the other black, struggling to survive in an urban ghetto. Their confrontation about artistic standards bring out the essential theme of how race informs cultural identity, the purpose of literature, and the conflict between art and life. Malamud blends gritty realism, absurd comedy and fantasy to deal with social issue as well as nature of creative writing process.
“When Lorenzo Timmons was hurt and out of work last summer, and finally ran out of money to pay the rent, he had little choice but the unthinkable: to gather his wife, daughter and whatever he could carry and move his family into a homeless shelter. The Houston Press reported in a cover story early this year that the specter of previously stable, working families falling into homelessness was becoming increasingly common in Houston -- and that there were few options for
The Parable of the Wicked Tenants and enhances Godly characteristics. This parable explains what happens when one is denied over and over again. There is story to this parable, Sin is something that everyone does, but why does one choose to do it over and over again.