The quote I chose is on pg 105
“Mam makes the tea and it’s good to see she has decent cups and saucers now not like the old day when we drank from jam jars.”
This shows that they must have not had much money and needed to use cheaper materials to save money. I think that is why they came to the sates to live better lives and get more money to live a better life.
Q1: Do you think that you would be able to live in very hard conditions like they could of lived?
This quote is on page 102
“There’s one boy off the side who stands with his hand in his pocket and I can see he has two red scabby eyes in a face full of pimples.”
They are talking about a street kid and how he looks shows how they looked and what they would do since there was nothing they can do about the way they are living. I don’t think I would be able to survive at that time but I think I would be able to survive in today’s world but not back then because it was a lot harder then, then now.
Q2:Why do you think people get homeless their?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
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Posted by mikitow at 8:13 PM
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Quote #1: I agree with you when you say that they did not have that much money and so that is the reason why they cam to America. I also think that they did not want to live their life with no money and so they wanted to start over.
Question #1: I think I could not be able to live like that becuase you have to work a long time for just a little bit of money and hard to be able to feed yourslf and keep my home because bills and stuff.
Quote #2: Yah it is really hard to survive back then if you dont have any home and no money and that kid needs help and not that many back then are generouse because of the deppression.
Question #2: because their isint a lot of jobs over their so a lot of people get homless.
Quote #1: Yes, I agree with the fact that they wanted to use cheaper materials. It's hard to be rich right "off the boat." I would use cheap materials too.
Question #1: I don't think that I could handle it. I am so used to the life I had, I would hate it.
Quote #2: Since it was the Great Depression it was VERY hard to live there. I would probably try to even steal.
Question#2: People get homeless because it's the Great Depression era.
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