Poverty In Wendy And Lucy

The movie Wendy and Lucy focuses on several problems that happened in society today that we like to overlook. The problems with poverty like being homeless have become a big problem in the world. This film which stars Michelle Williams, Walter Dalton, and Will Patton demonstrate the struggles that a person living in poverty face on a daily base and what they will do to make it. This movie also demonstrates a message that there are people out there that are willing to help the homeless, and then there are people who refuse to help. In the film Wendy, has it all mapped out on where she is going and how much money she will need to make it there. Wendy is from Indiana and is currently in Oregon trying to make her way to Alaska for a better paying

He’s polite enough to help her push the car off the lot and on to the street. Wendy asks him if the car shop across the street is ever open he says yes and he’s the only one around seems to do good business cars are always coming in and leaving. She also asks him if he knows if there is a store around that is here and he told her Jacks and its pretty cheap. She lets her dog Lucy out and gives her the rest of the dog food that she has and gives her water then they head down to Jacks. Wendy ties Lucy up to a bike rack so she can go in and tells her to behave they don’t need any

He goes well she couldn’t have gone far have you checked the pound she said no I was gone like a long time. He gave her directions to the pound and he told her they were probably already closed by now and she started walking and he said their defiantly closed and she yelled and he said well if the pound has her she will be there in the morning the pound never hurt anybody. Wendy goes to the security guard to ask him if he has a quarter to exchange of all her change to use the pay phone to call the pound and he insist for her to use his cell phone, he tells her nobody uses a pay phone now a day. She calls the pound and still no sign of Lucy. He lets her know the tow her car away so now she doesn’t have a place to sleep so she goes to the woods and sleeps get frightened by another homeless man runs back to town waits at Walgreens for the security guard to show up for his shift. Eight o clock rolls around he pulls up he walks up to her and tells her she looks a bit shaken she said I’ve been her since eight where have you been he told her it was his day off but told her she missed a call from the pound last night after she had left. He let her use his cell phone to call the pound then afterwards he handed her six dollars and told her to take it and don’t say anything and don’t let Holly see it and just to stop back around and just say