Notes On The Great Gatsby By Leon Garfield - 1560 Words

TITLE Smith explores how both [intuition/morals] and intelligence are required to break the bonds of poverty. The Industrial Revolution was a time of great advancement, but also great grime, greed, dust, and dirt. The great dark mazes called neighborhoods were awash with the poor; there were homeless, orphans, criminals, or combinations of the three and more. Everyone was playing their own game of life, surviving by their own crooked means. Trust was dangerous, even between close family and friends. Every man, woman, and child within the shroud of poverty was competing for their own gains. It is in this sanctimonious, stinking, soot-covered world that young Smith, the protagonist of Smith by Leon Garfield, finds himself in. Smith has taken it upon himself to escape the prison that poverty is through the discovery of a [adjective portraying power, special, dangerous, sought after] document. Smith, along with others, fight for ownership of the document, to unlock its secrets and use to their benefit. Smith must use his skills of intelligence and intuition if he is to succeed, or even survive the escape of poverty. The river of Poverty is a great one; it is easy to slip and go down yet almost impossible to crawl back up. It is even worse for those who start at the very bottom. Everything above those at the bottom wants to want to push and pull them back, as if to prevent them from reaching any level of human decency. Even today poverty claims many. During the Industrial