How Poverty and Soto’s “black Hair” Entwine

How Poverty and Soto’s “Black Hair” Entwine

According to Heritage.org the word poverty suggests destitution; an inability to provide your family with nutritious food, clothing, and reasonable shelter. So if we were to survive 20,000 Americans and asked do you live poverty, an overwhelming percent of Americans will tell you no base on that definition alone, but they would be surprised to learn what poverty actually means. The Census Bureau says the average American makes around 47,500 and lives in a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half bath, a garage, and a porch or patio or both. This type of home is the type of home an average American living in poverty resides in. "Black Hair" a personal memoir by Gary Soto has brought up some of these important questions, what is poverty? How is poverty defined? And finally how do you differentiate between someone who is poor or compare to someone who is impoverished. What is poverty?

Webster characterizes poor the identical way Heritage.org classified poverty: as the lacking of money or material possessions or less than adequate, or below average in quality or condition. Webster also says poverty is the condition or quality of being poor; indigence; need or the deficiency in necessary inadequacy poverty of the soil, her poverty of imagination) and poverty line is the level of income below which a person or family is considered officially to be in poverty also know as the poverty level. These definitions lend a helping hand. By getting a better understanding of poverty it aids a better explanation, to what makes poverty such a problematical issue.

In “Black Hair” Soto is a teenage boy living daily in conditions that many Americans can relate to because it was both poor and impoverished. This memoir demonstrates how the road to poverty is paved with many difficult challenges; in “Black Hair” Soto’s gives us a personal example of those challenges. Take for instant when he said “I still had not gathered enough money to rent a room, so I spent the nights sleeping in parked cars or in the church balcony.” Soto’s shows how tough life can be when you do not have a higher education or job. Soto’s living conditions and daily lifestyle as a teenage runaway was and is an eye opener, it shows Americans a life totally different than one of privileged and help established that some people really do need to be assisted. Heritage.org advocates of welfare often recommend a hefty development of welfare. Welfare is so scattered in the battle of the supposed "widespread" poverty epidemic in America, like Gary Soto have helped those advocates depict poverty on a personal level. Personal level meaning on an individual and social front, this memoir is doing more than telling a writer’s personal story; it is also giving every individual that lives in poverty a face and voice.

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