Chapter Analysis Of Jane Addams Childhood

Due date: 02/23/17 Rachel Eichmann

Hull House Exercise

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Chapter 1 (12 points) At the beginning of Chapter 1, Jane Addams states that she is going to discuss her childhood because that is the time when “character is formless but nevertheless setting into definite lines of future development.” After reading Chapter 1, choose three incidents from Jane Addams’ childhood which influenced her character development, briefly describe each incident, and tell what character trait resulted from it.

• Jane was the youngest child out of her family and the community’s children. She had to learn to fit in and make friends with children

A two story home, built for Mr. Charles J. Hull in 1856 caught the eyes of both Addams and Starr. The home had originally been a secondhand furniture store, and then a home for the elderly, run by the Little Sisters of the Poor. At the time, the lower floor was being rented for offices and storerooms for the factory that stood behind the house. Addams was able to sublet the second floor and what had been a vast drawingroom located on the first floor. The following spring after renovations had begun, the house owner, Helen Culver, gave the leasehold of the entire house the Addams. The two women began furnishing the house, and on September eighteenth of eighteen eighty-nine, they moved into the settlement, along with Mary Keyser. Volunteers at the house were bountiful, regardless of the many reservations surrounding the settlement. Many young women left their comfortable lives and homes in order to come to the house and care for those taking residence in the

It started with kindergarten classes and a boys’ club. The clubs grew and altered themselves into a class setting. More advanced education was brought into the house to teach the children, which built the social character and minds of the children.

• On New Year’s Day, Hull House opened its doors to the older generation in an “Old Settlers’ Party” in order to gather older folks in the settlement. Every year since that first New Year’s in the house, older people have come to the house to relate to each other, and talk. Former residents would come back to talk about their lives since leaving.

• Addams was often confronted on why she chose the location for Hull House when she could afford a much nicer location. The location was chosen in order to reach and speak to more people in which it yearned to help. The poor, elderly, women and children all came to the house in order to learn and receive help and care. Many different people became residents in the house and after leaving would come back and volunteer. Some former residents even stated that they had found nowhere with as much kindness and compassion in which they had found at Hull