Analysis Of William T. Vollmann's I Think They Are Poor

Poor People struggles to confront poverty in all its hopelessness and brutality, its pride and abject fear, its fierce misery and quiet resignation, allowing the poor to explain the causes and consequences of their impoverishment in their own cultural, social, and religious terms. With intense compassion and a scrupulously unpatronizing eye, Vollmann invites his readers to recognize in our fellow human beings their full dignity, fallibility, pride, and pain, and the power of their hard-fought resilience.William T. Vollmann goes to different parts around the world to interview different people and to ask about poverty. With the help of interpreters he holds the interview with randomly selected individuals. Vollmann begins in Klong Toey a

The man replied by saying he was good nor was he rich or poor but he was happy. Like this man many other believed that Allah makes the right decision whether someone should be rich or poor. They accept their destiny because they know Allah had placed them appropriately. As Vollmann continuous to write about the psychoanalytic truism for adults: where you take matters into your own hands because you can change your behavior not others. Reflecting on the ones that he interviewed Vollmann believed that poverty is wretchedness.What makes Women that are poor in Afghanistan, that are told by the Taliban regime to wear a burka but not allowed to be , the garment, and government makes them invisible. It is experienced more than an economic state. Vollmann digs beeper into the problem of povetry by examining what it means to have a normal life. He admired what living situations create a normalcy and how that as an effect on the poverty. Wondering whether it is okay to beg for money and who decides. Examining the consequences poverty has those that he decided to interview. Noting that poverty is what makes those individuals invisible because poverty is not seen by everyone. As Vollmann continued traveling to other countries and asking to those that he thought were poor. But receiving response from twelve people living in mud hit that believe they were normal. When asked a women in

Recalling his past he seen children that were poor and able to play outside. Whereas him and his daughter were never able to do so. Vollmann shows how the poor may be poor in certain items they are rich in time. A downside of poverty Vollmann describe was the accident proneness. Vollmann learns that consequences arise in illness when you are poor. Getting proper medicine and rest is the only way to heal but poor people can 't afford either. Vollmann than leads into crime and poverty: how the limited amount of resources cause poor people to lose their own security. Which leads to higher rape and murder rates. Which leads to speaking of the Asian underground gangs which is involved with human