Misfortune During The Great Depression

Misfortune is typically a condition in which no one would bring upon themselves willingly. After all, problems are the opposite of what one would think of when considering success. Unfortunately, misfortune is sometimes inevitable. The Great Depression was one of those misfortunes. The president at the time it began, Herbert Hoover, personally believed that the public should support the government, and not the other way around. Occurring in the 1930’s, it arduously ingrained itself into the weary minds of those afflicted by it. It affected thousands of banks and created a dearth of jobs for millions of people. According to the texts given, the Great Depression had a negative, yet eye-opening effect, on the people who experienced it.
Consequently,
Although the greatest and longest national economic recession had struck hard and mercilessly, citizens were not deterred from hoping. In the second text given, a poem called “Debts”, the narrator inquires to her mother as to why her father still believes that rain will come and crops will grow. Her mother responds sagaciously, murmuring “But even if it didn’t [rain] your daddy would have to believe. It’s coming on spring, and he’s a farmer” (Hesse). This locution duly summarizes and conveys the intransigent spirit of the American people. Embedded in the fourth text, “Second Inaugural Address Speech”, the president declares that “I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them every day” (Roosevelt). Upon drawing attention to the word “trying”, Roosevelt intends to signify that Americans are indeed persistently attempting to get by, however ineptly. He utilizes the phrase “I see millions” (Roosevelt) many times throughout his speech, paralleling each of his statements with the effects of the economical failure on his citizens. The poor try to pull themselves out of the economy’s whirlpool of misfortune; but they ultimately cannot do anything to fix it. The government, however,
Roosevelt had felt that, unlike his precursor, it was the federal government’s obligation to help the American people crawl out of those bad times. The third text given, an article titles “The New Deal”, states that “Roosevelt worked quickly upon his election to deliver the New Deal” (PBS). The New Deal, in aggregation, is an idiosyncratic amount of reforms regarding the calamitous effects of the Great a Depression. During the first one hundred or so days of Roosevelt’s presidency, many bills were passed to speed economic recovery. In the fourth text, Roosevelt states proudly that “But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else we all go down, as one people” (Roosevelt). He perhaps intends to say that, as the American nation all spiraled down into the dearth of unemployment and bank failure, they would rise out of it the same way – together. They could achieve such a prospect with the assistance of the acts and corporations the New Deal established. The third article declares that “While they did not end the Depression, the New Deal’s experimental programs helped the American people immeasurably by taking care of their basic needs and giving them the dignity of work and hope” (PBS). Thanks to Roosevelt and his trusted group of scholars and liberal theorists, the best course of action was sought to aid the misfortunate