Through a third person narration and eventually a first person narration, the author of “We Ate the Children Last” shows the reader that the poor get no help from people of wealth and power.. After a new surgery was created, the poor took it as an opportunity to better their situation. Furthermore, it shows the extent that the lower class people will go to by fully accepting a new life changing surgery with barely any testing at all. The eating of garbage became so widespread that it no longer had any judgment; It became the wealth of the public. Nothing was done when reports of stray…