what it is like to be impoverished theme

The general life and travails of someone who finds themself in a state of abject poverty is illustrated. Typically they are homeless and must live hand- to-mouth on the street doing odd-jobs or begging.

18 total · 5 choice · 8 major · 5 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
ds93x11	choice	The story is largely set in a fenced-off ghetto full of down and out people.
ds93x12	choice	The story is largely set in a fenced-off ghetto full of down and out people.
movie: Midnight Cowboy (1969)	choice	The story concerns the impoverished male prostitute Joe Buck and his crippled Italian-American friend, Rico Rizzo, trying to survive in New York City. They were homeless and squatted in an abandoned building. The story illustrated the depths of desperation they experienced as winter arrived, there was no prospect of gaining employment, and their dwelling was about to be demolished.
movie: Oliver! (1968)	choice	The story explores what it might have been like for poor children in 19th century England. The opening scene was of a child workhouse in Dunstable. The story follows a group of orphan boys trying to eek out a living in London as pickpockets.
nonfiction: Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)	choice	George Orwell writes about how he experienced the poverty of London and Paris first hand at the end of the 1920s. In Paris he pawned his possessions and nearly starved before getting a dishwasher jobs that barely made ends meet. In London he lived for a while like a tramp.
ahh3x04	major	Juan and his family were so poor that they couldn't afford to keep his body in a proper grave.
ftt1982e3x03	major	Gepetto was destitute, having not even enough money to buy food for Pinocchio and himself.
movie: Bicycle Thieves (1948)	major	A poor family was at he point of desperation.
movie: Red Beard (1965)	major	We saw the plight of numerous poor people when they became sick.
nightgallery2x16a	major	The town was full of poor old wretches.