The Metamorphosis and Give Us The Money

So, um, today I'm giving an i o.

P over poverty, And, uh, my chosen text was the

metamorphosis. And my non literary text that I'm cross referencing

is give us the money, which is a video by,

uh, a section of PBS called the Y.

And they mostly work on, like, social issues, videos regarding

social issues such as poverty in extreme circumstances, like you

might find in, uh, in Africa or the Middle East.

And, uh, so poverty, Um, poverty is a strange issue

to have in our world because we have more than

enough resources to feed everyone and have enough energy for

everyone to live comfortably.

But, um, since most of the world's powers, uh, they

strive to obtain as much power and as much of

the world's resources, they can that, um, they don't they

don't try to help other countries or they send aid.

But it's not nearly enough.

Um, poverty is the state of being extremely poor.

Um, it is the state of not having enough material

possessions like food, water, clothing, housing to, uh, two for

someone to survive, Basically.

Yeah. And so, um, Franz Kafka and the metamorphosis, uh,

his book the metamorphosis is about the main character who

becomes an insect.

It's a metaphor for how he was living his life

at home.

And when he becomes an insect, he loses his job

and his family becomes extremely poor that to sell all

of their furniture, they are relying on the little money

that Gregor, the main character, left behind for them and,

uh, the small amount of money that her father left

for them.

Uh, he ran a business, but it, uh, it failed

and he lost all of his money and he went

to severe debt.

That's why his son had to start working.

And that shows poverty is a different range of poverty

such as that in Africa and the Middle East is

not the same as in a developed country like, uh,

Britain or America is somewhere like that.

Um, poverty, uh, in the Americas or in America would

take the form of maybe having enough for yourself having

a house, having food, but having no income being a

constant fear of losing your house, of not having enough

food to feed your Children or your family.

And a section of the metaphor insists that would describe

this. Um, a section that would describe this from the

metamorphosis is, um, Gregor.

His sister wanted to go to a conservatory for a

dance. And it says here, but, um, Gregor, uh, he

had short periods.

He would come into town, and during conversation with his

sister, he would often turn to the conservatory, But it

was only ever mentioned as a dream that could never

be realized.

Their parents didn't like to heal and hear this innocent

talk. But Gregor thought it quite hard and decided he

wouldn't let them know.

But he planned with a grand announcement of it on

Christmas Day.

Now, that means that Gregor was planning to send his

sister of the conservatory, But he then lost his job,

and that was severe disappointment for his sister.

And, uh, the entire family didn't have enough money to

send her to college for that, um, and like that

and, uh, give us the money.

Um, they say that we'll give us the money.

There were two young rock stars, and they they strive

to raise as much money as they could for uh

huh. People in extreme poverty and, um section from there

says that even though the song raised $6 million would

hardly make an impact.

There's not enough food for half of these people.

Rumors of a shipment can set off panic.

Um, people would panic because they were trying to get

food just enough to survive from these shipments.

That would come in, uh, aid from foreign countries.

But they didn't even have enough money to buy this

food, and $6 million that they raised would hardly cover

it. And, uh, they don't have any food.

Unlike Gregor's family, who has enough food, they have a

house, nice house, an apartment.

And, uh, they have a family that can work.

And some of the people in Africa they don't.

They don't have any work at all.

They don't have anywhere to live.

Besides, maybe a a hut or a shack they built

out of whatever they could find.

Now, uh, these works both connect because obviously they're talking

about poverty, but they're extremely different kinds of poverty.

However, you can see, uh, similarities, such as like fear,

uh, the metamorphosis.

Gregor's family was very afraid of losing their job, and

they did, and not having enough money to buy food.

They hardly had enough money to buy food, and, uh,

the entire family had to start working.

Um, the mother got a job.

She was, uh, seamstress.

And she would make clothes out of cloth.

She would slow things.

And Gregor's sister would help that.

And she lost her dream of going to the conservatory.

And, uh, these people in Africa, they wouldn't even have

a chance to go to the conservatory.

Um, if not for foreign aid, which some of them

receive and they can go to college.

Um, and the metamorphosis Gregor's family was running out of

money at the very end.

They didn't have enough money to feed Gregor, so they

had to.

They got rid of him.

And this relates to how it is in Africa.

If family doesn't have enough money to feed someone, they

might send them off somewhere else to go work with

the last bits of their money.

Like, um, lots of times.

Poor families will send one child to America for a

better life, and they would send money as aid back

to their families because their families couldn't get a job

there, and they use the very last bits of their

money to send their child off to work.

And, uh, that's basically what happened to the metamorphosis to

they're not on such an extreme level, like was their

lives were not at risk.

Um, they sent Gregor off to go to work because,

uh, the father was not fit for work anymore.

And next, these works help us to understand poverty and

from different angles and how it affects people differently.

Um, we should strive to end all poverty, not just

extreme poverty.

Um, I think starting with poverty and wealthy countries is

where we need to go.

And we have made progress in both both of these

cases trying to send more aid to other countries, Especially

during covid 19 America has sent almost $10 billion more

aid to foreign countries to help with poverty there.

Because due to covid 19, shipping has slowed down so

much that sometimes these poor countries are over our overshot

by ships.

They won't stop there to, uh, sell their goods.

They will go on like somewhere different to a more

major port.

They won't stop and, um uh, offload their food to

sell their They'll take it to a richer country now,

Um, and the metamorphosis, uh, you can see kind of

how something like covid 19 can affect people there to

how we start to be shut up in our houses

and become like insects.

And because of cost cuts, our jobs may be lost.

And, uh, something a similar scenario could happen where the

family has to sell almost all of their belongings to

just have enough money to feed themselves.

That's, uh, similar to the tout that is in Africa.

They would sell everything.

They have to have enough money to feed themselves.

So it is still serious.

And the governments need to strive to, uh, support these

people that are in our own countries that are starving

in their poor, and they don't have enough money.

Now our countries do have food banks.

Nowadays, more, more, more and more food banks are appearing

in homeless shelters are appearing, but it's still it's not

enough to completely end poverty everywhere.

Uh, we're not sending enough aid to other countries to

help in their poverty, or if we are, they won't

accept it.

And that's due to their, uh, the way their government

works. They're proud.

We can help them there, too.

And their governments send people to, you know, uh, political

people to help them governments Mhm.

Yeah. Um, poverty, as you can see, is a transnational

issue. It, um it affects everyone everywhere.

An example of this would be, uh, the border between

Mexico and the U.

S. Now, the border between Mexico and the U.

S has given rise to extreme tensions in both countries.

And, uh, due to things like drug runners and people

trying to cross the border for a better life.

Um, the border has tightened up, and stricter laws have

been set on immigration, which has given rise to much

more poverty in Mexico.

Um, people would in Mexico would just try to send

their kids to the US to have a better life

because they would have a better chance of survival.

And that is felt everywhere.

Um, people sometimes lose their jobs due to, uh, immigrants

that work for cheaper or, um, these immigrants will lose

their jobs due to cost cuts.

And then, uh, they want companies will want to bring

in U.

S. Workers instead of foreign workers because, um, it's people

in the U.

S. will strive to buy things that are made by

workers employed the U.

S. Citizens employed there.

And that is felt every day because, um, and that

is felt every day.

Um, you might go to the grocery store and you

see, it's made in the U.

S. It's not made somewhere else.

Now that is contributing partially to uh huh poverty and

other countries that we don't, uh, outsource our labor to

other countries.

And, uh, that can bring about more issues with poverty

in our own countries.

And that is some very thin ice to walk on.

Okay, Yeah, Okay.

Another issue with sending aid to foreign countries such as

in Africa or even just trying to help our neighbors

in Mexico is that sometimes these people that are giving

aid the people in poverty see them as trying to

gain power or authority by making themselves look good by

helping others.

That's what happened and give us the money.

These rock stars, they were truly trying to help.

But these people, um, they said they're not helping enough.

They they just, uh, trying to do this for their

own benefit.

It's not for the benefit of the people in poverty,

and so people would stop accepting their aid.

They would push back against them instead of accepting them

and trying to help them.

And that is, uh, a problem, too.

I've chosen to, uh, use the metamorphosis as my written

text and give us the money as my non literary

work to show and more rounded version of poverty how

it affects everyone, even in our modern time that people

in our own countries are poor and people out of

our countries are poor, and we need to help all

of them.

Um, it helps the reader to understand the scale that

it's not just one person needs help.

It's, uh we're going to start with individual people.

And, uh, uh huh.

I've chosen, uh, the metamorphosis as my written text and

give us the money as my non literary work too.

Give Yeah, the people are more well rounded understanding of

poverty, but, um, and not all poverty is extreme, but

it still is something that we need to fix.

It can cause stress in people's lives and put stress

on their relationships.

And, uh, focusing only on extreme poverty really shuts out

extra urban poverty.

and problem there.

People in food deserts aren't getting enough food, uh, in

our own countries and that it shows that not all

poverty is equal.

But we need to help everyone, even though they might

not be as poor as someone else.

Um, we can do this by, uh, just sourcing responsibly

our items so that we know people are being paid

fairly. Um, giving, too.

Yeah. People trying to send aid to these other countries

or helping out volunteering at the local food bank or

homeless shelters to help people and pull them all out

of poverty and kind of as a whole group.

Just focusing on one person is not good.

It can You can help one person, but you can

make a larger impact by helping a group like, uh,

like a homeless shelter.

You make a larger impact there than just helping one

person

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