Leaving your farm, you travel to the city, a sack of grain on your back. Your spirits are high with the hope of finding decent work there. The lease on your land has been quickly given to another family, for your landlord does not want the land to be idle. The new tenants were moving in almost before you and your wife could move out.
Arriving late one day in the city, you find the streets crowded with traffic and with others like you who have come seeking work. The rumors that you heard about factories are true, but it seems that there are more people looking for jobs than there are jobs. After two months and trips to many factories and other places of possible employment, you still do not have a job. Twice you came close to a job, but each time someone just before you was hired. The grain you brought with you ran out a week ago; you are very frustrated, hungry and almost without energy. Your wife is very frail. Neither the government nor the religious institutions you have visited have been able to help.
You and your wife talk about your survival and whether you might beg or even steal to live.
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