Book Discussion

Before reading this book, I would say it would be very helpful to know what it is like living in the south, it is much different down south than living up here in Iowa. Rick Bragg was very poor as a child, you would have to have an idea of what that is like, or what he had to go through everyday just to get by. His father was an alcoholic so it would be useful if you some what knew what that would be like to have a father that wasn't always there for you because he would rather get drunk.

To have an idea of what that is like, I would suggest reading the article, http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090729/news/907289915?Title=24-of-Alabama-kids-living-in-poverty. This article tells you about living in poverty in Alabama. It states all the statistics of families living in these awful situations. Living in poverty is something alot of us don't know much about, the video, http://www.usccb.org/cchd/povertyusa/tour.htm, tells the facts about life in poverty, and what we can all do to help every day so people don't have to go through all the tough, difficult days nobody wants to live through.