Faving Poverty
Facing Poverty with A Rich Girl's Habit
India Pasley
Charlotte Walker
ENG 090
October 27, 2013
“Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habit”, is about a young woman named Kim, growing up in Queens, New York. Born in South Korea to a lifestyle of luxury with maids and a mansion but raised in New York due to the loss of her father's millions overnight. Now faced with a mean look of poverty of trying to accustom with public transportation, city schools and juggling with doing things on her own. Taking English classes with a curriculum designed for poor families while trying not to get trapped in the English immigrant ghetto. Not quite understanding the layers of divisions within the immigrant but more brutal than learning English. Always with the memory of “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habit”. Kim and her family grew to the lifestyles in the hopes of branching out in search of better jobs, housing and education.
After reading “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habit”, there were two main points that stood out to me the most. Establishing yourself to a new environment and never forgetting who you are. Establishing yourself to a new environment meaning that Kim had to get over her past experiences and step into a life of poverty. Regardless if she never seen it first hand, she was driven to it by her father's misfortune. Kim overcomes her obstacles to the new environment and as time came and went. Kim and her family adjusted but she never forgot who she was.
Kim stated that the school system was rated for poverty families, and regardless that she had to attend. She never forgot who she was, she was from South Korea, but English now was her first language. She stayed up with the trends daily and nightly to get a better understanding if the English-language, to not feel so different, but mainly to fit in with the others but that did not matter because she was still
India Pasley
Charlotte Walker
ENG 090
October 27, 2013
“Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habit”, is about a young woman named Kim, growing up in Queens, New York. Born in South Korea to a lifestyle of luxury with maids and a mansion but raised in New York due to the loss of her father's millions overnight. Now faced with a mean look of poverty of trying to accustom with public transportation, city schools and juggling with doing things on her own. Taking English classes with a curriculum designed for poor families while trying not to get trapped in the English immigrant ghetto. Not quite understanding the layers of divisions within the immigrant but more brutal than learning English. Always with the memory of “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habit”. Kim and her family grew to the lifestyles in the hopes of branching out in search of better jobs, housing and education.
After reading “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl's Habit”, there were two main points that stood out to me the most. Establishing yourself to a new environment and never forgetting who you are. Establishing yourself to a new environment meaning that Kim had to get over her past experiences and step into a life of poverty. Regardless if she never seen it first hand, she was driven to it by her father's misfortune. Kim overcomes her obstacles to the new environment and as time came and went. Kim and her family adjusted but she never forgot who she was.
Kim stated that the school system was rated for poverty families, and regardless that she had to attend. She never forgot who she was, she was from South Korea, but English now was her first language. She stayed up with the trends daily and nightly to get a better understanding if the English-language, to not feel so different, but mainly to fit in with the others but that did not matter because she was still