How the Other Half Lives
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All Themes Housing, Reform, and Improvement Poverty and Morality Diversity, Cosmopolitanism, and Ethnic Prejudice Corruption  Photography and Visual Language The Progressive Era and Immigration
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How the Other Half Lives

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Jacob A. Riis

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Introduction Intro
Plot Summary Plot
Summary & Analysis
  • Epigraph/Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
  • Chapter 10
  • Chapter 11
  • Chapter 12
  • Chapter 13
  • Chapter 14
  • Chapter 15
  • Chapter 16
  • Chapter 17
  • Chapter 18
  • Chapter 19
  • Chapter 20
  • Chapter 21
  • Chapter 22
  • Chapter 23
  • Chapter 24
  • Chapter 25
Themes
  • All Themes
  • Housing, Reform, and Improvement  Theme Icon
    Housing, Reform, and Improvement
  • Poverty and Morality  Theme Icon
    Poverty and Morality
  • Diversity, Cosmopolitanism, and Ethnic Prejudice Theme Icon
    Diversity, Cosmopolitanism, and Ethnic Prejudice
  • Corruption   Theme Icon
    Corruption 
  • Photography and Visual Language Theme Icon
    Photography and Visual Language
  • The Progressive Era and Immigration Theme Icon
    The Progressive Era and Immigration
Quotes
Characters
  • All Characters
  • Jacob Riis
Symbols
  • All Symbols
  • The Potter’s Field  Symbol Icon
    The Potter’s Field
  • Beer Symbol Icon
    Beer
Lit Devices
  • All Literary Devices
  • Allusions
  • Ethos
  • Genre
  • Imagery
  • Irony
  • Logos
  • Metaphors
  • Mood
  • Motifs
  • Pathos
  • Personification
  • Setting
  • Similes
  • Situational Irony
  • Style
  • Tone
  • Verbal Irony
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