what it is like to be impoverished theme

The general life and travails of someone who finds themself in a state of abject poverty is illustrated. Typically they are homeless and must live hand- to-mouth on the street doing odd-jobs or begging.

16 total · 3 choice · 8 major · 5 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
ds93x11	choice	The story is largely set in a fenced-off ghetto full of down and out people.
ds93x12	choice	The story is largely set in a fenced-off ghetto full of down and out people.
nonfiction: Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)	choice	George Orwell writes about how he experienced the poverty of London and Paris first hand at the end of the 1920s. In Paris he pawned his possessions and nearly starved before getting a dishwasher jobs that barely made ends meet. In London he lived for a while like a tramp.
ahh3x04	major	Juan and his family were so poor that they couldn't afford to keep his body in a proper grave.
ftt1982e3x03	major	Gepetto was destitute, having not even enough money to buy food for Pinocchio and himself.
movie: Bicycle Thieves (1948)	major	A poor family was at he point of desperation.
movie: Red Beard (1965)	major	We saw the plight of numerous poor people when they became sick.
nightgallery2x16a	major	The town was full of poor old wretches.
rbt1985e3x09	major	The story featured people in a fictional city that, for reasons undisclosed, had descended into a dystopian state in which virtually everyone had to eat garbage and dress in rags in order to survive.
theamericanshortstory13	major	The story is a window into the Snopes family living as poor tenant farmers in .