What is poverty? by Полина Попова https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks en-us 2022-04-27 18:55:46 UTC 2025-11-23 03:48:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Poverty in “The Kite Runner” https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161890273 Poverty in Afghanistan is very severe, nearly everyone is living on the breadline and cannot afford anything new or expensive. Poverty sets society back - this is not a 21 century post - industrial landscape, the mud huts, the little villages. Poverty and war drove the country to a very traditional way of living and there is hardly a way to go back now.  ]]> 2022-04-28 09:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161890273 poverty https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161890919 That is the state of being extremely poor, people try to make ends meet. According to the paragraph, poverty is a striking thing, we might notice plenty of sounds or objects that refer to that, such as tattered cloth that was used as a roof. Life of a poverty-stricken human is dissimiliar to a common one. 
Emotions: depressed a bit, disappointed, anxious, overwhelm, restless
Language: mud, hut, tattered]]> 2022-04-28 09:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161890919 What do you learn about poverty from this excerpt? What emotions does it evoke in you? What language means does the author use to achieve it? djletoff777 https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161891134 1) Poverty is the lack of money, wealthiness
2) Rage towards the destroyers
3) "Villages like discarded toys among the rocks, broken mud houses, children dressed in rags"]]> 2022-04-28 09:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161891134 What do you learn about poverty from this excerpt? What emotions does it evoke in you? What language means does the author use to achieve it? https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161893270 1. Povetry is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter 
2. I sympathized with these people
3. rutted path, chains of little villages, mud houses, huts, wooden poles and ect.]]> 2022-04-28 09:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161893270 Poverty https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161893742 When people live in poverty they are so poor they can't afford anything to live in a normal way: clothes, houses, toys. 
The excerpt terrified me: it is almost impossible to live in such conditions.
The author uses emotional language and many adjectives like "tattered" or "broken"]]> 2022-04-28 09:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161893742 ngaynullina2007 https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161894708 - What do you learn about poverty from this excerpt?
The scene that is described in the text is the definition of extreme poverty. The people are dressed in old, probably very uncomfortable clothes, the houses seem like they were made from whatever the villagers could find. All in all, their living conditions are beyond impoverished. 

- What emotions does it evoke in you?
The text makes me feel compassion for the villagers. It is horrible that they have to live this way.

- What language means does the author use to achieve it?
The author uses very detailed and descriptive language: "sprouting", "dicarded", "tattered cloth", similes.


]]> 2022-04-28 09:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161894708 https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161894798 Well, I guess from this excerpt I can say I have learnt that poverty has crucial effect on people, their life is literally something that is even complicated for me to imagine.
Speaking for myself and my emotions, I would say I got slightly uncomfortable. It makes me think about justice in the world. I don’t know, it is just extremely upsetting. 
]]> 2022-04-28 09:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161894798 Q. Number 2. Emotions. https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161895098 This text made me feel compassion, worry and anger. These people lead such a poor and miserable life just because some upper-class first world citizens decided that a war there would be a good decision. Innocent people are suffering because of that, if not now, soon. Having to build a new society on top of the one crushed by the war is a nearly impossible challenge and I do not think it that people should be subjected to it without any aid from those able to provide it.]]> 2022-04-28 09:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161895098 https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161896978 Author tried to create an accurate image of poverty by using a lot of descriptive elements 

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  • We don’t actually learn much about poverty, exept it is a condition, when people live on a breadline, however we get a description of it. "Broken mud houses and huts", "children dressed in rags". 
  • This piece of text somehow opens eyes, This makes me feel compassion. 
  • Author uses some strong vocabulary descriptive items which highlight how horrible conditions are. "childrendressed in rags", "fluttering", "tattered cloth"
    • ]]>     2022-04-28 09:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161898323     Q. Number 3. Language means https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161900043 The author makes us feel compassionate for the people by showing the readers their day-to-day lives. When speaking about extreme poverty, almost nobody likes to directly show us the life these people lead, but the way the Hosseini humanizes them is the main reason why this text makes us feel so emotional and uncomfortable at the same time. We begin to realize that poverty exists beyond fiction and news channels. We are given a first-person view on the life of the Afghan people and it shocks us, as it rightfully should.]]> 2022-04-28 09:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161900043 What are the major events that lead to this situation? djletoff777 https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161928514 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Afghan_War]]> 2022-04-28 10:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161928514 Do poor people actually want and need our help? https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161929833 I think they actually need it as they live in awful conditions and even a small sum of money might help.]]> 2022-04-28 10:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161929833 How people are coping with poverty? Rightarion https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161931343 The ways of coping with poverty differ from place to place. People are trying to do their best making their ends meet, so any opportunity will workout for them. Nowadays the most influential and available way for them remains accepting help from charity organisations.]]> 2022-04-28 10:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161931343 What are people trying to do with poverty? Why doesn't anything work? https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161932871 People are sending help to poverty-stricken people, they are opening new charity organisations, however this cannot solve the whole situation. Poverty is a highly complicated case, to close it, people need a lot of, a lot of resources to save a country or a region from living on a breadline. 
    Even if charity organisations are popular, they are still not possessing THAT amount of money ]]>     2022-04-28 10:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161932871     What if poverty stopped existing? https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161933904 As for me, that might be possible only if each person is equal in the society. That is amost unreacheable, some historical events may illustrate the drawbacks of this world structure. However, if that came back, humans would have the same rights, houses, just all things. The government became so far away from common citizens, so the majority of people begin living worse, and the change deteriorated all positive consequences. ]]> 2022-04-28 10:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161933904 What is being done to stop poverty? Why does none of it work? https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161935033
    There are many humanitarian funds and organizations that help the poor, but they prove to be not quite effective. The reason behind it is that the funds simply do not have enough money to financially support the poor and also because most poor people cannot begin working or living a normal life straight after they are given some money  and shelter.  It is either their physical or mental condition, which became more troubled because of their poverty or was the reason they lived on breadline initially. Just having poor people food and money does not work, because it is not enough. Poverty changes people and the charity organizations should not only focus on humanitarian aid, but also on their rehabilitation and reintegration into working class society.]]>     2022-04-28 10:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161935033     What would be different if poverty didn't exist? ngaynullina2007 https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161935043 I think that poverty is necessary for modern society to exist. Basically, if we had no poor people, we would automatically not have any rich people either. And this would mean that the whole global economy would change, and we would probably revert to traditional economy, which would completely change the world. However, I'm not saying that poverty is something positive. I think that the living conditions of some people are beyond horrible, so we still have to do something to reduce poverty to some extent. ]]> 2022-04-28 10:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161935043 Why is poverty hard to escape? https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161935633
    As I see it, there are two types of poverty. First one is correlated with laziness, alcohol addition (and other additions, certainly) etc. This type is not very easy to ‘beat’ as person have to get over himself and start building life all over again. However, it is, I would say, possible. In the other scenario, people have not done anything by themselves that had led to them being poor. Such state is usually caused by some massive events that happened in the county. People are poor not because they don’t work hard enough, but because there is literally no money in the whole country or city. 
    ]]>     2022-04-28 10:32:57 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161935633     What is poverty? https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161946507
    Poverty is not being able to afford basic necessities that one needs to survive and experiencing difficulties finding a way to earn money for obtaining them.]]>     2022-04-28 10:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161946507     poverty is... https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161946816 Povetry is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter ]]> 2022-04-28 10:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161946816 What is poverty? https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161947695 Poverty is a state of being extremely poor, it is about surviving, not living.]]> 2022-04-28 10:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161947695 Poverty ngaynullina2007 https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161947976 A complex societal issue where specific individuals or communities live on the breadline: lack money, drink unclean water, have inadequate shelter, suffer from hunger, have limited access to school, fear for the future, are unemployed.  ]]> 2022-04-28 10:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161947976 poverty again https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161948471 Povery is a life on the breadline. Broke people have to survive, do everything on a shoestring. The are disable to make savings\to invest, so beggars live this day.]]> 2022-04-28 10:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161948471 https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161948890 Poverty– is a combination of various aspects that turn into situation when people have to make ends meet]]> 2022-04-28 10:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/polinafp12/Bookmarks/wish/2161948890