Chapters 18-22: Family Discussion Reflection #3

Part II: Research
Topic:  Real Stories written by people in the Great Depression
Summary: These real entries about the Great Depression discuss personal experiences with pay getting cut low,  the effects of malnutrition, and the difficulty to find a job which causes them it migrate to places where they can find better than what they are experiencing.
Evaluation: These article(s) connect to the reading because in chapter 18 it focuses on what personally goes on in the Joad family just as the people who write these entries focus on what personally happens to them during the Great Depression also. They both talk about migrating, finding jobs, and being able to support their families and survive through this hard time.
MLA Citation:  http://teacherweb.com/IL/Northwood/MrJanzensHumanitiesClass/Great-Depression-Articles.doc (PDF)

Part III: Philosophical Questioning
1. How far would you go to feed your family in a time like this? Steal? murder? lie? Cheat? How far would you go.
2. Going through this crisis what would be your greatest fear, and what would be your biggest wish?
3. Going through hard times like these, how would you manage your money? Would you live day by day or conserve it?

Part IV: Discussion
Discussion with my mother.

Part V: Reflection
      The most memorable part in the discussion with my mother is when she got passionate (and increasingly loud) about how when you have children you'd do whatever it takes to feed them and make sure they're okay and put them before yourself and she states that the kids are your motivation to survive and also the motivation to work. She also says that she would manage her money because you obviously don't want to spend it all in one day especially in times like this you don't know when you'll get paid next. What was surprising is how into it she was, as always, because she is a mother and she has had her times of struggling so she knows how it can be having a limited amount of money and managing it to fulfill all of the necessities. I can improve my questions by making them more related to the reading rather than the research, but also incorporating the research as well.