HOBOES

Definition of the word HOBO

A hobo is a migratory worker or homelessvagabond, often penniless. The termoriginated in the western probably

northwester United States during the last decade of the 19th century. Unlike tramps, who worked only when they were forced to,

and bums, who didn't work at all, hobos wereworkers who wandered. They traveled by train

Famous people who were hoboes

Jack Kerouac Harry McClintockHarry Kemp

Hoboes travelled by train, wrote poems and song.

A Hobo poem:« All around the water tank

Waitin’ for a trainI’m a thousand miles away from home

Just a’standin’ in the rain »

There are 250 000 hoboes, in the united states

10 percent of them are

girls

Reasons why teenagers left

home

Teenagers left their home because: -they were a burden to theirfamilies, because of the greatdepression.

- It seemed a great adventure

NORMAN ROCKWELL

Biography

He was born in New York in 1894

At 14, Rockwell enrolled in art classes at The New York School of Art

Rockwell found success early. He painted hisfirst commission of four Christmas cards beforehis sixteenth birthday

In the 50s, he was considered as the most popular of artist Americans. He painted his triple auto portrait looking in a mirror

He died in 1978

Painting of

a hobo

by

Normann

Rockwell

This painting is the cover of a newspaper.

This painting is by Normann Rockwell, an

American painter, it represents a man.

He is wearing an old hat as well as a long, old

and shabby coat.

He’s wearing pants with holes and he has a

dog.

This man is cooking sausages in the streets

and he’s smoking the pipe.

So we can conclude this man is a homeless.