How The Other Half Lives

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[Fact 1]: Riis Tells of His Early Trials,” The New York Times 29 Oct.

[Fact 2]: Shortly after its publication, the New York Times lauded its content, claiming it to be a “powerful book”.“Matters We Ought to Know: How the Other Half Lives,” The New York Times 4 Jan.

[Fact 3]: The book informed readers of the plight of the less fortunate in New York.How The Other Half Lives and other works of Riis were greatly influenced by the reporting of Charles Dickens, whom Riis greatly admired for his stories of London’s poor.

[Fact 4]: Much of Riis’s writing style is similar to Dickens', who used first-person encounters to expose the “other half.” Riis, however, often wrote with a sense of righteousness that is lacking in his British counterpart.

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[Fact 5]: 1906. Riis knew firsthand the hardships of New York's poor.

[Fact 6]: In How the Other Half Lives he describes the system of tenement housing that had failed, as he claims, due to greed and neglect from the better off.

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[Fact 8]: 85-86. The book also became a hit.

[Fact 9]: 1891.A police reporter who had himself known hard times and poverty,“Jacob A.

[Fact 10]: He claims a correlation between the high crime rate, drunkenness and reckless behaviour of the poor and their lack of a proper place to call home.Riis, Jacob, How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York , pg 3-5. Chapter by chapter he uses his words and photos to expose the conditions inhabited by the poor of various ethnic groups in a manner that “spoke directly to people's hearts”.Pascal, Janet B., Jacob Riis: Reporter and Reformer .