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Locust Effect Reflection Paper (RP)

The main arguments of the book(s)

The novel that I decided to read for my reflection paper is the Locust Effect, which was written by Gary Haugen. The author wanted to address how individual lives are affected by violence and poverty. The Locust Effect’s main argument was that violence and poverty overlap with each other because ending violence would help bring poverty to an end. In the novel, the author was able to use statistics to show how ending poverty would end violence.

In the section “Poverty’s Hidden Terror”, the author references the “terror beneath the surface,” meaning the deeper, more serious issues that have a powerful effect on things. If the problem of poverty in connection with violence

I feel that everyone should be informed about the two difficult topics of poverty and violence because they are issues that we all face. Being informed could help bring awareness to the two topics. If it was not for this course, I would never consider reading this novel or really understand what it is like to deal with poverty and violence.

The second thing I was surprised by in this novel was that I never knew that un-wealthy people had to suffer the way they did in the novel. This was surprising because I thought that everyone is treated the same when it came to the justice system. For example, I feel it does not matter how wealthy an individual is, if they disobey the justice system they would have to do jail time.

The third thing that I was surprised by with this novel because I never knew that individuals had suffer in-order to survive. In my opinion, the victims had to suffer because they had bad things happen to them. I felt that it was hard for the victims to speak up for themselves when they were treated badly. It was also hard for them to speak up for themselves because they were ashamed of being victims of a

In my opinion, each module wants readers to understand what the topic is about. For example, they want to be able bring awareness to difficult topics that we are afraid to talk about. Another connection that modules would have is that individuals are affected by the topic that we are studying. For example, everyone has to face poverty and violence at some point in their life. These modules help us as reader to know what steps to take if we ever become victims of the issues that are discussed in the other modules.

What will you take away from this module’s readings?

By reading this novel, I will take numerous of things away from The Locust Effect. The first thing is that money is powerful, because the violence was happening because the victims were poor and scared. This made it difficult for the victims to get the justice that they deserve.

The second thing I will take away from this module reading is a different view of poverty and violence. I felt this material has helped me to know what its like to become victims of different crimes. I will also take away that individuals deal with poverty and violence in a different