Poverty is the extent to which an individual does without resources. These resources can be financial, emotional, mental, relational, knowledge of hidden rules, and spiritual. In order to for a person to leave poverty, it is necessary that the individual can be confronted and concern with his current state of life. Flannery O Connor gives us a good example of how poverty (or lack of resources) affects the humans’ decisions. In her story Parker´s Back, she describes how O. E. Parker erroneously tries to find identity, satisfaction, and salvation.
O. E. Parker identity relayed in his physical pride. O. E. Parker was, “heavy and earnest, as ordinary as a loaf of bread”. When he was fourteen years old, he met a man in a fair “tattooed from head
