of yielding little unproductiveness. So how do we know that both of these are true meanings of the word poverty? It could also be an educated guess as the word poor. I believe we must take the learned definitions of each word and merge them with our own opinions and the situations in which they are used to come to an accurate definition.In the beginning of my research of the word poor I had just thought that the word meant not having anything, digging through garbage for food and living in the streets. I always thought about the children advertised on the television that had no food and were nothing but skin and bones; however in my research using the (OED) I found the word poor can mean many different things like having only few materials needing the things that provide the comforts or the nessecities needed in human life so as in doing the research I have done it has changed my mind a little and in a way has me confused about the true meaning of the two words.As I have described poor in the last paragraph I have also thought about the meanin of the word poverty and how closely the two definitions are related they both mean to me having little or nothing, not having the nessecities needed in life they both mean having little or no wealth, they can also mean having poor condition of the body. I believe that is why the English language is so distinct from all other languages because we have two differently spelled word meaning somewhat of the same thing.Gerbec 3In reading The Grapes of Wrath I honesly believe most of the characters are poor and impoverished starting out when Jim Casy was introduced in the book hw he gave up on being a preacher he is doing without having preaching to people and not having a family for when he wants to go with the Joads to California. When the Joad family had lost their house because the bank wanted the land they had lost the land in which they grew up on, and when they were packing they had to get ri...
