Difficult Times in the 1930's

Mindy Nguyen

Ms. Tran

English 2P

17 November 2010

Imagine a time period, approximately in the 1930’s, and you are sitting peacefully on the front porch of your house, gazing at the moonlight, and listening to the sound of rain thrashing down on the road. Suddenly, you hear brief rapid footsteps running across the pavement. You see kids dashing to their destination while munching on their morning breakfast. You think, these kids are only around six or seven, where are they rushing to go so early in the morning? You hear babies crying at the break of dawn because the only thing that gave them warmth in the cold eerie night was a mere tiny blanket. Later, as you walk into the small town called, Willowmoss, you witness many people on the street with bare feet, ragged and stained clothes, and some without legs or arms begging for money. Families all around you are walking to the nearest local stores because they cannot afford vehicles. The mothers’ babies are wrapped in only blankets, no clothes underneath. You see people waiting in line for long hours all for a microscopic crumb or crust of bread. This was the 1930’s: The Great Depression was bearing down on all.

Many people actually believe that life actually is harder today. Families could not afford to give each other presents on holidays or to even have dinner each night. They were not able to have lavish things such as nice clothes or even comfortable suiting couches. To save money, families neglected medical and dental care. They sought to cope by planting gardens, canning food, buying used bread, and using cardboard and cotton for shoe soles. Individuals do not realize the extremities that families had to go through during the 1930’s.

Individuals say that the toughest times ever would be now. Indeed, it is a tough time today, but we do not have it as difficult as times back then. It will never compare to those times that innocent children had to pay a country’s debt. In the 1930's the...