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What is Poverty? by Jo Goodwin Parker
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What is Poverty? by Jo Goodwin Parker
This personal essay, 'What is Poverty?' is written by an anonymous person named Jo Goodwin Parker from West Virginia, Southern United States. This essay was sent by mail to Professor George Henderson of the University of Oklahoma with a signature from Joe Goodwin Parker. Later, this essay was published with no additional information about its actual writer or source. This essay was published with various facts on the difficulties faced by a woman due to poverty.
In her essay, she talks about various aspects of poverty. She has given a real and graphic description of being poor on a daily basis. According to her, poverty is more ugly, cruel, and devastating than what is shown in the newspapers.
Here in this essay, we find the painful experiences in the life of the writer because of her poverty. She has explained her miserable experiences from childhood to adulthood, where she has experienced various difficulties in her life.
Here, she has defined poverty as a lack—living without hope, better foods, medicinal care, proper sanitation, and proper education. It is like an acid that destroys pride, honour, health, and even the future. Parker's main aim is to show how shameful, humiliating, and abhorrent it is to be poor. She wants to draw the attention of the readers to the pathetic condition of poor people. She wants her readers to know about poverty without pitying her.
Poor people have to live a restless life, looking at the dark future of their children. Poverty breaks bonds and relationships too. The writer had three children. Her husband left her because of poverty. He had no regular job. He left them all because of the burden on the family. He left the house without saying goodbye. During that time, their condition was very bad. They also did not have money to buy contraceptives to prevent unwanted births. She had a job then. At that time, she only earned $22 a week. She was suffering from anaemia due to a poor diet. The doctor advised an operation, but she did not have the money. She struggled a lot alone to take care of her children. She had to face many difficulties taking care of her children during cold and hot days and nights.
Once, she left all three children in the care of her mother. But when she returned home, she found her children in a very miserable state. Her youngest son was covered with fly specks, and his diaper had not been changed since morning. Her next child was playing with broken glasses carelessly, and the eldest son was playing alone by the lake. She did not have enough income to enrol them in nursery school. She had to pay up to $20 a week to enrol three children. But her income was only $22. She decided to quit her job to take care of the children.
This essay deals with the problems of poverty. Poverty makes us weak in various aspects. Money plays an important role in poverty. If we want to solve problems, money is essentially needed. We need shovels to get rid of the garbage. But we need money to buy shovels. To get any job, we need to be clean, but we also need money to buy soap and clothes. The writer has described various incidents that happened to her due to poverty. She left school because the children of rich people used to tease her all the time in school. After all, she was poor. She got pregnant several times because birth control was expensive for her. Her husband left her due to poverty. Her financial condition was so bad that she could not do her operation on time. She used to provide cornbread without oil as breakfast to her children. She used to wash dishes with cold water without soap. She didn't buy soap to buy her baby's diapers. She didn't even buy vaseline for her hands, and the baby's rashes were created by diapers. She visited various government and private agencies to seek help, but she could not find the right person to help her. She felt great shame and humiliation. For the sake of her three children, she spread her hands in different places.
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