About half of the population in today’s world is living in poverty. More than three billion people live on two dollars and fifty cents a day. More than 1.8 billion people live on less than two dollars and fifty cents a day. These people face the torment of not having anything to eat; they face the torment of not having clean water to drink; they face the torment of not having a fine established shelter. In “Flavio’s Home” the reader is informed about the harsh reality of poverty all over the world. Poverty anywhere in the world is a critical issue, as these people live through these harsh situations every day, and there is nothing they can do. In “Flavio’s Home” by Gordon Parks, an essay from his 1990 autobiography, “Voices in the Mirror”,
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As he travels the streets of Favela, Brazil and visits Flavio da Silva’s home, he realizes the situations some of these people go through. Flavio da Silva is one people millions of people facing poverty. In Flavio’s home hunger, and disease are noticed by Parks. Poverty cannot be prevented, as the people going through it do not have the strength to even survive. They cannot prevent not having any money, food, clean water, or even clothes. If they had the chance to succeed and avoid these hard situations, they would.
In the journal entry “Flavio’s Home” rhetorical devices were used, one of them being pathos. Parks used strategical techniques in order to help illustrate the hard lives of people in Favela, Brazil. These strategies help the reader understand Parks’s …show more content…
He uses imagery in order to describe what people who are going through poverty really live like. In “Flavio’s Home” he described Flavio’s as “his legs resembled sticks covered with skin and screwed into his feet” (Parks 95). This imagery lets the reader see how skinny his legs were, how unhealthy he was. From this information the reader can conclude that Flavio faces hunger. As Parks walked into Flavio’s home he described it as a shack that was about “six by ten feet” and it’s “floor, rotting under layers of grease and dirt, caught shafts of light slanting down through spaces in the roof” (Parks 96). As the reader reads this they can imagine that the place that Flavio lived in was not only small but also very unsanitary due to the poverty they faced. The reader can also conclude that the roof of the shack did not exactly cover them as the sun came through the spaces. Parks describes Flavio’s home in such a way, that it explains what Flavio and his family is going through is no ordinary
As he travels the streets of Favela, Brazil and visits Flavio da Silva’s home, he realizes the situations some of these people go through. Flavio da Silva is one people millions of people facing poverty. In Flavio’s home hunger, and disease are noticed by Parks. Poverty cannot be prevented, as the people going through it do not have the strength to even survive. They cannot prevent not having any money, food, clean water, or even clothes. If they had the chance to succeed and avoid these hard situations, they would.
In the journal entry “Flavio’s Home” rhetorical devices were used, one of them being pathos. Parks used strategical techniques in order to help illustrate the hard lives of people in Favela, Brazil. These strategies help the reader understand Parks’s …show more content…
He uses imagery in order to describe what people who are going through poverty really live like. In “Flavio’s Home” he described Flavio’s as “his legs resembled sticks covered with skin and screwed into his feet” (Parks 95). This imagery lets the reader see how skinny his legs were, how unhealthy he was. From this information the reader can conclude that Flavio faces hunger. As Parks walked into Flavio’s home he described it as a shack that was about “six by ten feet” and it’s “floor, rotting under layers of grease and dirt, caught shafts of light slanting down through spaces in the roof” (Parks 96). As the reader reads this they can imagine that the place that Flavio lived in was not only small but also very unsanitary due to the poverty they faced. The reader can also conclude that the roof of the shack did not exactly cover them as the sun came through the spaces. Parks describes Flavio’s home in such a way, that it explains what Flavio and his family is going through is no ordinary