1. “someone had chiseled the silver dollar right out of the floor. Times were that hard”
This quote tells us that people were so poor during the depression that someone pried money right out of the ground. This can relate to the reader because when ever I see money in the ground I always try to take it out too. Maybe back during the depression other people might have tried to get money any way they could.
2. “Sifting through the 150,000 pages in the dusty storage room, I was looking to fall in love.”
This shows how dedicated and interested she was in learning about the depression. She liked reading about the stories people had to say and how they survived. She was compelled to sit in a dusty storage room and research. Readers can relate because there has probably been something that had intrigued them to send a decent amount of time doing research.
3. “her employer left a $5 bill on the floor, ‘my face burnt like fire, for I knowed I was gettin’ tested’.”
Times were so tough that the employer would test the employees to see if they would steal from her. Other people might have been secretly tested in some way that they relate to this quote. Trust might have been a hard thing to come around during a time of an economic crisis.
4. “They peddled cake flavoring and cased sausages, they auctioned tobacco, they fished and smuggled rum—and sometimes aliens—from Cuba to Key West.”
Prices were too high so people had to sneak in bootleg items. People took risks they might not have normally taken if there wasn’t a depression going on. People can relate because they might have been pressured to do something that is risky to themselves.
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