Now-a-days

....Pointed to a Negro child standing in the door of a shack.  "wouldn't that make a picture, now?"  she asked and they all turned and looked at the little Negro out of the back window.  he waved.  "he didnt have my britches on," june star said. "he probabley didn't have any," the grandmother explained. "little niggers in the country don't have things like we do.  if i could paint, i'd paint that picture," she said. (O'Connor 12)

just reading something like this written back when it would have been an every day thing to see children without things that were essential compared to now is incrediable.  if there was a child like that in today's day in age, the help that would be received would never stop.  when a child is without something especially pants the last thing people would do is stare and think of painting a picture out of it.  but for the story it shows that that is what most negro families were probabley like.  poor and without.