I think the point of the story Lyddie is to show just how hard it was for young women to get by back then. In Lyddie's story, she has to go endure many hardships such as losing her farm, having poor working conditions, and having to walk and walk to become a factory girl. The place she stayed at was an small inn. The in was very overcrowded with 2 women sharing a bed. This could potentially be harmful to the girls if for example there was a fire they would not all be able to make it out alive. In this essay, I will be talking about all the hardships that Lyddie had to push through and how bad their lives were back then. Many young girls, working as young as ten, had many harsh conditions already. Starting in chapter 3, which was the cutler's tavern, Lyddie got her first job. Even in the beginning, you could tell it was going to be a harsh time for the rude comments given by the owner. For example, “ “Go along” the woman was saying. “ this is a respectful tavern, not the township of a poor farm girl.” Also in her job her and her brother were very mistreated. Lyddie, for example, had to sleep under “ a windowless passage, which was hot and airless even in the late spring” Another example is that when her brother Charlie came to visit she noticed that her brother was …show more content…
Kids back then were in awful conditions because their children had no freedom, got deformities due to not ever seeing the sunlight, were underpaid, working up to 16 hours a day, underfed, and often had very poor sleeping and housing conditions. This book was bringing attention to the awful conditions these young kids had to go through. Many families got separated and many people died during this time period. Around the world in poorer places there are still very poor and harsh working conditions for people. Many people take their freedom for
When Lyddie left for Lowell, no one was left to maintain the farm, only the Stevenses, who agreed to monitor the farm, but nothing more. With no one to tend to it, the farm is obviously not fertile. Having no food and little money, living in the farm would be impossible. The farm is the only real home Lyddie has known.
Have you ever been separated from your family? If you have, then you probably have been scared, and frantically searched for them. You were probably relieved when you found them a few minutes later. Well, in Katherine Paterson 's Lyddie, we meet the protagonist, a 12-year-old girl by the name of Lyddie, who lived in Vermont in the 1800s. Lyddie was sent away to work to earn money for her family and her farm.
In Katherine Paterson's novel, Lyddie, Lyddie the main character is forced to move away from her farm, and her life changes because of it. Before Lyddie started working in a textile mill in Massachusetts, she lived with her family her mom hired her out to work at a tavern and she got fired shortly after. She moved away to Lowell, Massachusetts with the help of other people she started living and working in a textile mill, so she can pay off the debts at the farm. Which changed her life forever. Lyddie should leave the factory, despite getting free shelter, and making lots of money.
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson is about a girl that works in a mill. The working conditions at the mill are not very good. There is a petition going around for girls to sign that work at the mill for better working conditions. While some people think that Lyddie shouldn’t sign the petition because she could lose her job, Lyddie should sign the petition that Diana Goss Circulates because of the dangerous conditions and bad conditions at the boarding house. Lyddie should sign the petition because they need better working conditions.
Many kids suffer, and didn’t have food and were very tired all day. According to Document 2 it explains that “people work at age 8 and kids would be severely beaten if caught sleeping or not doing the job right “as a result, kids had the hardest life then because they work for someone no matter what and never ever saw there
Many children these days aren’t able to have jobs because of Child Labor Laws which allow the forbidding of the employment of children and young teenagers, except at certain carefully specified jobs. Now Elizabeth had worked from the age of six, creating major gaps in her learning. Now, children have the opportunity to gain an education at the cost to nothing, until college. This is something to be taken advantage of. One of the last reasons is “The living conditions were very terrible.
The children were employed in factories, demanding long hours of work. This made their living and food conditions very
The late 19th century is commonly referred to as the “Gilded Age”. A time of luxury and success, for some at least. For others, this was a time of struggle, hard work, and new beginnings. Child-workers are one group that did not experience the so-called “luxury” of this epoch. Our story begins with a poor child-worker named Arabella, or Bella.
Lyddie refuses to accept that she is living in the conditions of a slave, and must focus on her work so she can get enough money for her farm. The author states,“She wasn’t a slave. She was a free woman of the state of Vermont, earning her own way in the world… she, Lyddie, was far less a slave than most any girl she knew of” (94). Working in the mills are all most girls do and convince themselves that they are working against their will and all the dangerous things in the factory. When Lyddie and her roommates get into a fight, Betsy sings this song to Lyddie.
Lyddie was very poor when she was a maid due to no earnings therefore she needed the money. When she went to the factory her wages went up tremendously compared to what they used to be. In another case Lyddie
LYDDIE Lydia (Lyddie) Worthen, a thirteen-year-old begins working in the Lowell textile mill to pay off her family’s debt. In Lyddie by Katherine Paterson, every girl has the choice of signing the petition Diana Goss is circulating. The air in the factory is murky and dense, the sound coming from the looms are unbearable, as well as the unfair hours and pay on the job. Lyddie should sign the petition, for the treatment she and many other girls received on their job are unjust.
This entailed that one needed to leave their pride at the door and recognize reality and limitations on ones self and not be overtaken by the temptations in life. If one hadn't left their pride at the curb, they were going to experience a rude awakening in Mrs. O’Conner’s short stories. The “Good Country People” had given us the extravagant and elegant Hulga, a girl who was just bursting with pride and self regard. Daughter of Mrs. Freeman, Hulga had thought she was better than everyone. But Hulga hadn't been so perfect, she not only had a heart condition that would slow her down on the farm she had been working on, but she had a wooden leg to delay her even more.
The author also uses rhetorical questions such as “Why tempt her to friendship?” to emphasize the lack of even the possibility of a meaningful connection between Offred and the Marthas. This use of figurative language highlights the inescapable suffering and isolation that Offred encounters while interacting with others, and achieves a hollow, detached tone. In factual recollections of the events occurring, diction and syntax are also crucial in the construction of this isolated, resigned tone While describing exchanges between herself and the rest of the household, Offred uses short, precise sentences, void of intricate words or complex structure.
Conditions were hazardous and grueling. They worked long hours for little pay. Most of them could not read or write and they could not attend school because they needed to work. They suffered from malnutrition and exhaustion. They were innocent children that were locked up in factories, like they had committed a crime.
Child labor was a great concern in the Industrial revolution but very few people did something to stop it. Women and Children were forced to work more than 10 hours a day with only forty minutes to have lunch. Elizabeth Bentley once said that they didn’t have any time to have breakfast or drink anything during the day. They worked standing up and if they didn’t do their work on time they were strapped (whipped). Children were treating like they were not important, like they didn’t deserve a better life.