Dig In And Digging In The Great Depression

In The Great Depression many people lost their jobs, and it closed a lot of banks. It was kept in the memories of the people who lived through it. It changed their lives. Some might’ve been scared to lose their house, and some were probably scared after they lost their house in foreclosure. I would be scared if I was living in the streets. Especially the kids who lost their homes. The kids would probably be even more scared than their parents. When many companies closed down, that meant that all of the people who worked in it would lose their jobs. For example, in Digging In by Robert J. Hastings, the closing of Old West Side Mine meant that many people who worked there now don’t have a job. Each day of The Great Depression was people trying to get jobs, and people losing their homes. Most of the people probably lived in boxes after they lost their homes to foreclosure. When the people would get loans to buy and plant crops, they would pay back when the crops came in. In the poem Debts By Karen Hesse, a man gets a loan from Mr. Roosevelt to get new wheat planted, but it hasn’t rained enough to grow wheat in
You should try not leaving the light turned on in a room that nobody is in. That way you’re saving up electricity. When they would use up some electricity, then they wouldn’t have to pay a lot of money for the electric bill. In the story Digging In by Robert J. Hastings, they would turn off the light in the kitchen after they were done eating. Also if they wanted to read during the winter, they would sit as close as they could to the window with the curtains pulled back so the light would come in. They would do this until it turned dark outside. During the winter it must have been really hard for the people without homes. They would get really cold and might get a bad disease. Then if they don’t have clothes to get warm, then they could die of the