The Life Of Poor People In The Tenements, By Jacob Riis

This chapter of a book was written by Jacob Riis, who was a muckraking journalist. Muckraker was a journalist who pushed for reform by publications the problems of society to the middle and wealthy classes. In this book, Riis made a photographic report about the life of poor people in the tenements of New York. In the beginning, Riis described a raid, which was made by policemen. The object of that raid was the stale-beer dives. He said that the squads sent to make simultaneous control on all tramp’s lair in the area. After that, they caught several tramps and sent them to the police station. Then, Riis described a room of one tenement. There was dirty floor, broken chair, and many things that it shouldn’t in the memory of the man. In that

This man handles a knife with him. He was thinking to kill someone to revenge for poor people. That man was arrested by the police. The writer said the man was thinking about the way to solve the problems between the wealthy class and the poor class. Then, the writer described the tenements. The tenements look bad. All that tenements in New York were hard to live in it. Then, the writer gave facts about the people’s life in the tenements. The writer said he never said that New York had tenements less slum than those in old cities. After that, he said that the dangerous class, which is poor class, is less dangerous than the other classes. He blames the wealthy people because of the poverty of the other people. He said that he talked about tenement problems in a meeting. He talked to protestant denominations, and they discussed it. He said that a few of business men was listening to the cry of a Christian, who said that those people can’t understand the love of God because they are only a greedy men. They tried to give a solution that instead of the thinking of the man with the knife. At last, the writer wrote his discussion with a minister, and he said that the minister must put the man where he can respected