Summary "What is Poverty?"

"What is Poverty?" By JoGoodwin Parker, is about a women and her family living in poverty. The woman who is telling the story explains what poverty is in her life. She leads you in by using sciences such as smell when she says how it stinks from being poor. There is talk of sight, the author dose by telling the reader how she sees her children’s dirty dippers, the sores, and the messy home. Hearing she tells how all sound she hears is her baby crying due to wring worm. Touch she tells how her hands are so rough because she has no soap or lotion. Finally taste the lack of food they have to eat but cans of beans. It is a touching story of a woman trying to be strong. The author tells the reader to not pity her, and uses her story to inspire other to succeed.