The other america

After reading this book, i felt that i could really relate to what Harrington had to say. I am from a small rural town and compared to most places many of the people that lived around me would be considered to live in poverty if it was really looked at. I agree that poverty is over looked by many people. Living in a rural community i see that a lot of people do live without the greatest things in life but they make the best of what they have. I think that poverty is just a matter of it you have money or not, but if you make the best of what you have then why does it matter how much money you have or how nice you clothes are. Money cant really make people happy it is what you do with what you have that really makes you happy.

Many people around my rural community may live in trails or run down houses but with the area i live in people don't really see that. They see the natural beauty of what our community has to offer. The rural communities are filled with many of the homes that Harrington described in is book are many of the homes that i would see in the community that i live in and many of the surrounding communities.

I feel that if there was not such a gap between upper, middle and lower class that this would not be such and issue. But the upper class is not willing to give up anything and the middle and lower class are continually being forced to give up something or having there jobs taken away from them.