The Poor and Their Psyche

The author of "Why Can't More Poor People Escape Poverty? A Radical New Explanation From Psychologists" is Jamie Holmes claims that poor people have a harder time with willpower. Jamie Holmes essay is written in groups of general ideas related to an experiment or study. Holmes apparent purpose is to explain depletable self-control in order to show the difficulties poor people have. I think the audience could really be anyone, i don't think it is directed towards a certain group of people.

The text sort of confused me because of the amount of experiments mentioned. I understood her main point about willpower and self-control. The text has a lot of information to back up her thesis and that made it difficult to read and understand. She mentions a theory of depletable willpower and that was a hard concept to grasp at first but she goes more into detail during the middle of the essay which makes it easier to understand.

Holmes uses a lot of quotes in her essay from different authors or scientists. She gives many examples of research to support her claim. In each paragraph she uses a different thing of evidence to support her thesis. She is formal with her writing and expresses herself in a very educational way. Her thoughts are complete and supported.