To Kill A Mockingbird Food Conditions

In the article “Where the food is both scarce and risky” by Alfred Lubrano it talks about the food conditions for the poor people. In chapter 3 of “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, it talks about a boy named Walter that pours syrup all over his food when he goes to Scout's house for lunch. In the article many people describe the appalling food conditions of poor people and one being said, “When we get food up here, it’s like we get the end of all food, the last batch of it” (Lubrano). This shows that when the poor people get fed they eat like they've never seen food before or like they haven't been fed in days. Similarly, in chapter 3 Scout invites Walter to her house for lunch and “Walter poured syrup on his vegetables and meat with a

generous hand. He would probably had poured it into his milk glass had I not asked what the sam hill he was doing” (lee 32). This shows how similar Walter reacted compared to the poor people when he got the syrup. This also shows that Walter ate whatever was in front of him because his family was poor which meant they couldn't afford such high quality food. Lastly, both of these texts gave vivid details on how the poor people reacted when they got food.