What is Poverty: Effective Writing piece

Summary of “What is Poverty”
Objective
“What is Poverty written by Jo Goodwin Parker describes what it is truly like to live in poverty with close to nothing. No one to this day knows Parker or if she even exists. Before the passage even starts there is a sort of intro that states, “Whether the author of this essay was in reality a women describing her own painful experiences or a sympathetic writer who adopted her persona, Jo Goodwin Parker remains a mystery.” Parker explains that one day she had all the luxuries that many people live with such as hot water, shoes that fit, money, a job, a house, and a husband. She then goes on to tell that now she has none of that and has three children no husband and no job. Throughout the passage Parker starts pretty much every new paragraph with” poverty is…”, and then has a different saying each time. As an example Parker says, “Poverty is remembering”, she then goes on to explain what is was like to quit school, get married at a young age, and then lose it all. As stated in the text,” poverty is looking into a black future”, Parker says that at best her daughter will live the same life as she did, and that no other children want to play with her boys, the future does not look good for her children.
Subjective
“What is Poverty”, By Jo Goodwin Parker explains in depth what poverty is when you actually live it . Parker explains that poverty is all around everyone everywhere and they need help. To me I believe that Parker is a real woman struggling to raise her children in poverty, who cannot even send them to school because they are infectious and have no school supplies. In basically every paragraph Parker starts out with “poverty is” and each time it is something different about living in poverty, from being tired to “poverty is an acid that drips on pride until pride is worn away.” That quote is very powerful in a sense, Parker is saying poverty is essentially a disease and once you have it the virus will continue to infect until nothing is left. When reading this passage I couldn’t believe that things that she has gone without including hot water, proper food, diapers, soap just to name a few. I couldn’t imagine going one day without those things let alone a year. Poverty is a constant struggle, that most likely her kids will have the same problem. She also states that even though help is available it isn’t nearly enough to live on seventy-eight dollars a month, which is what the government provides.