They were often forced to steal clothes from the store because they had no money to buy new clothes. “I created a ruckus to distract the employee while the mother hid a dress that she would wear on her arm under her raincoat” (Muri, 70). The authors' life as a child was different than that of other children. She only had three dresses and therefore had to wear them two or three times a week. She looked quite dirty due to her worn clothes. “They called me poor and ugly and dirty, and it was hard to argue the point” (Walls, 87) but as Erma said, “Beggars can't choose” (Walls, 82), she had no choice but to wear those dirty clothes . There were times when they did not care about their health. "Mom, that ham is full of worms," ​​I said. “Don't be so picky,” he told me. «Just cut away the parts full of worms. The interior is good" (Muri, 106). This therefore clearly shows how poverty left them no choice but to eat the ham full of