Character Analysis: No Promises In The Wind

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I believe that no one wants to be in poverty, but do you know that during the Great Depression, it is considered normal to be so poor that you’re jobless and hungry all the time? That’s what happened to Josh and Joey in No Promises in the Wind: because of their harsh father and the financial problems, they left their home to look for a job which can support the two of them. They met a lot of people, desperate people. Almost everyone was looking for a job so they could fill their stomachs. However, even desperate people were divided into two groups: some people remained positive, and the others were stressed. Throughout the book, there are three characters who were very positive considering the environment that they were in. Josh was the big …show more content…

Josh and Joey’s father, Stefan, was really troubled with his responsibilities of supporting his family. He was really desperate to feed his family, and he worked extra hard on finding jobs. When he couldn’t get a stable job after trying for months, he let out his stresses and anger on his own family, own children. Because he couldn’t deal with the problems positively, he literally drove his own sons out of his house. On the first day of their new job at the carnival, Josh and Joey was waken up by an annoying dwarf, Blegan. This eccentric man was a pest, and he neither welcomed the brothers nor showed them the circus. All he did was calling the brothers ‘young fools’ and insulting Pete, their boss, for hiring them to play piano. When the circus burned down, one of the brothers’ co-workers, Florinda, freaked out. She had been a dancer for her life, so she was really scared of her future when she lost her job. However, instead of planning and preparing for her next step, all she did was crying out loud uselessly, and it took Emily, one of the best clowns, thirty minutes to calm her down. Those people really should had lighten up, because they are not helping by being

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