Poverty has been a controversial issue throughout China’s history. People who live in impoverishment will be deprived of minimum food and shelter that are necessary for living. Poverty at the same time causes physical, mental torment that may lead to immoral behaviors as they strive every means to survive. The struggles of those characters clearly demonstrated poverty under the influence of social mobility, national security, and economic stability. Realizing such relationship, China has been coordinating its’ economic development with the building a stronger nation that leads to prosperous society in all respects. The impact of Poverty does not entail just having unsatisfied material needs or being undernourished. It is often accompanied by a degrading state of powerlessness. Even in democratic and relatively well-governed countries, poor people have to accept daily humiliations without protest. Wang Hsiao –fu knew there was nothing he could do when his old mother being cursed and kicked out from a residence, “wretched and pitiful, just like a wounded old dog”. (Wu Zu-xiang) There was nothing the slave mother could do when his husband needs to rent her out as a reproductive tool to the scholar. Just like what her husband said, “We are poor, but if we don’t want to die, what else can we do?” (Rou Shi) When dealing with reality, personal pride is something must be sacrificed. Poverty can also influence people in performing dishonorable acts as these people's needs are much more important than honor. There were hard-working poor who then, due to hopelessness, turned into lazy or even delinquent ones. For example, Lucky decided not to work for Myriad Wang when he realized “Whether you work or not it’s the same; you get dame all out of it either way”. Lucky who was a honest man consequently driven by hunger, started gamble and steal. It is human nature that when his or her family is becoming worse by-the-day will see no problem in behaving immorally. In comparison, to act in accordance with society's rule is less important than able to live. Another example is Wang Hsiao-fu, a honest man who had spent his youth working hard; however, with the economic shutdown, he was reduced to a thief because of poverty. People apparently tend to put across understanding toward hopeless individuals, especially when considering the suffering that Hsiao-fu went through and the fact that he had to provide his nearly-dead children with food. Some of his fellow villagers even commented that he was forced to do it; he couldn't have helped it (Wu Zu-xiang). For impoverished people, crime offers a way to obtain material goods that they cannot attain through legitimate means. In their case, the prize that crime yields may outweigh the risk of being caught, especially given that their opportunity cost is lower than that of a wealthier person. Thus, poverty should increase crime rates. In 1942, there was a time when “no one would dare to open his door in those chaotic days of war and destruction”. For example, the residents of Chen Village all had mistaken Li Shun-da’s family for bandits as the three cried for aid outside their home, and they were left to freeze to death in the snow. Such phenomenon indicated severity of the crime during poverty. “Many a man in the prime of life... was reduced from a respectable clerk, manager, or small-store owner to a thief or beggar, or was forced into exile and ended up as a soldier or a bandit” (Gao Xiao-sheng). Furthermore, when poor people encounter the threat of starvation, it is difficult to practice or to receive love. According psychologist Maslow’s theory of hierarchy of needs, People would prioritize their basic physiological needs such as hunger and shelter before all other needs. After all, Survival is the most basic human instinct. When Wang Hsiao-fu’s wife gave birth to a girl, she would curse and thump the baby “as if she would not feel relief until she actually thumped her to death... She worried about tomorrow’s salt and tomorrow’s rice-about the unending days of pitch-darkness yet to come. Thus, when the innocent baby’s pointless tantrums fanned her anxiety like a flame, she needed an outlet for her frustration. She began to treat the