The poorest person possible. A story to help you appreciate what you have. Like "the diary of anne frank" or "grapes of wrath".. but much worse.
2006-10-04 14:21:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
LOL JK
READ ABOUT MAGGY OF DA STREETS SOIN LIKE DAT
JACK LONDON IM NOT SURE HOW SAD IT IS THOUGH
HOPE IT HELPS
2006-10-04 14:24:50 · answer #1 · answered by King J 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Les Miserable by Victor Hugo, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
2006-10-04 21:47:16 · answer #2 · answered by voxxylady 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This one's an oldie, but it's about a really poor kid, an orphan, working as a newspaper boy on the streets of New York in the 1930s. He takes on the care of a severely handicapped little girl who was being abused. It's a struggle for him to earn enough to feed her.
Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton Porter
Probably your public library would have it or could get it for you.
2006-10-04 21:27:16 · answer #3 · answered by Ginger/Virginia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Helen Forrester wrote "Twopence to Cross the Mersey" as well as "Minerva’s Stepchild” (published in British paperback as “Liverpool Miss”), “By the Waters of Liverpool”, and “Lime Street at Two” to document her life growing up in Liverpool after her father lost his job in the 1930's. The family was very poor. I read the books several years ago and I still remember some of the painful bits in it. It is definitely a good lot of books if you want to put your life into perspective.
2006-10-05 04:04:23 · answer #4 · answered by Lucie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a poor person and I have a story, but my story is very private..However, I read a book concerning the plight of immigrants to the US from Eastern Europe that made me weep! I can't remember the title or author just now, but if you can give me ANY contact address I will write to you when/if I can. I'm jimdickson@uku.co.uk
2006-10-04 21:27:23 · answer #5 · answered by Jimbo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maggie, a girl of the streets, is a short novel by stephen crane about a little girl who lives with an abusive father and brother, an alcoholic mother and an infant who is forced upon her because the parents are incapable. She becomes a whore eventually then dies.
2006-10-04 21:44:11 · answer #6 · answered by vulpix_z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a third world country or even the poorest streets or place in your country.and you will find out a lot about poor people.and you can experience their own stories first hand..try it..and maybe you'll realize something other than just reading a book.
2006-10-04 21:37:32 · answer #7 · answered by rie_hope 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oliver Twist...David Copperfield...Bob Cratchet in A Christmas Carol...Of Mice and Men...
2006-10-04 23:04:02 · answer #8 · answered by tigerlily_catmom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't David Copperfield by Charles Dickens a story about a poor orphan and his life?
2006-10-04 21:31:01 · answer #9 · answered by LostInTheCrowd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hunger by Knut Hamson. The guy in this book is so poor he is starving, but being a good Christian he gives away half of the food he comes by to strangers.
2006-10-04 22:04:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. It was a very depressing movie, but suprisingly the book is a little more upbeat despite the family's abject poverty.
2006-10-04 23:14:20 · answer #11 · answered by aas_627 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋