Anthony D

“One morning my grandmother and her colleagues arrived at the office to discover that someone had chiseled the silver dollar right out of the floor.” I like this because it caught my attention, in the fact that someone was desperate enough to chisel that silver dollar out and take it with them. The element of robbery caught my attention right away!

“That is how I came to find myself spending a year in a dimly lit storage room in the Library of Congress, sorting through thousands of interviews with ordinary Americans telling of how they survived the Great Depression.” It kinda facinated me how she was so interested in spending a year in the LoC , and how she went throught all that work with great interest. I know I would’ve gone insane.

“I fell in love with Marie Haggerty, a Massachusetts housemaid who talked about how, when her employer left a $5 bill on the floor, “my face burnt like fire, for I knowed I was gettin’ tested.” I like this one because it seems odd that someone would blame you for taking a $5 bill that was on the floor. I think that helps as a good hook when you bring up trickery and embarassment.

“The inhabitants of those file drawers told stories about how they got by using a mixture of ingenuity and guile.” This is a really good catcher because it talks about people living inside file drawers and the stories that they told. And to me that seems really interesting to hear about.