Jo Goodwin Parker,
Poverty exists everywhere, yet many are not experienced enough to understand such situation. Your essay has been a timely wakeup call for everybody, not only to the well-to-do people whom you intend to relay your message.
As I read your essay, I ask myself if there are other cases of poverty worse than yours and I come to think that you are more fortunate than other people I know. You live in a cheap and dilapidated house while others live in street sides, bridges, cemeteries and other places dangerous to live in. You have your cold water to wash yourselves while others don’t have. They do not wash their clothes nor even take a bath. You have education until junior high school while others never held a pen. Their ignorance on many matters makes them evidently poorer than you.
If you only had the guts to go against your mother’s ridiculous decision, and by all means pursued your study, you will not be in the world you live now. No dirt. No stink. No bitter past. No asking for financial help. No black future. Nevertheless, the present is always the most important. In behalf of the poor people, you were able to speak out heartily and meaningfully. With that, we were able to ‘understand’ the lives of people like you.
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