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BEST IELTS Writing Task 2, 27TH October
WRITING TASK 2 (AC + GT)
WRITING TASK 2 (AC + GT)
Children who are brought up in poor families are better equipped to face the challenges of life later and become successful adults than those who are brought up by rich parents. Do you agree or disagree?
SAMPLE ANSWER
“There are only two families in the world, the Haves and the Have-nots”, says Cervantes. The meaning is that the human society has always been divided into 3 classes, the rich and the poor, the privileged and the under-privileged. Many people however, believe that those who are born in impoverished families grow into more successful personalities than those who are brought up in affluent environments. I fully agree with these people.
Children born and bought up in financially weak families have to struggle against want, hunger, deprivation. This fight makes them tough, and when they enter adulthood, they are fully equipped to face the ups and downs, the vicissitudes of life. They put up a brave fight against the turns and twist of fate, and emerge victorious. They appear in the world as highly successful persons. ‘The greatest man in history’, says Emerson ‘was the poorest.’
In contrast, there are children who are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. These children of the affluent families’ find all comforts and luxuries of life scattered around them. Such children remain utter strangers to the hardships and struggles of life. When they grow up, they just cannot face the challenges of life and are easily overpowered by them. Of course, we find rare great men who originally belonged to affluent families. But these examples are exceptions. And exceptions, as they rightly say, do not prove the rule.
To conclude, though poverty is a curse, yet often it proves to be a blessing in disguise. Most of the great men in history were indeed the creations of poverty!
