Lewis Richard Braund: The Tragedy Of The Titanic

Most people know the tragedy of the Titanic, but many do not know the story of the hundreds of innocent lives that were taken because of their operator’s arrogance and the caste system. Everyone aboard the Titanic thought that the ship was unsinkable and that caused them to ignore warnings. The Titanic had many poor people in it looking to start their lives over in the new world. The caste system sealed the fate of Lewis Richard Braund, a man looking to start his life over. The Titanic sank from a collision with an iceberg and the operator’s arrogance which killed many of the lower class including Lewis Richard Braund, a brutal victim of the caste system. Nearly everyone knows that the Titanic sunk from collision with an iceberg, but very few know of the avoidable reasons that caused the tragedy. The Titanic was widely considered unsinkable; as a result the operators grew arrogant and did not heed the warnings of other ships. “The Californian had some message about three icebergs; he didn’t bother to take it down.”(Baldwin 3) The Californian, another cruise ship, warned the Titanic about the icebergs, but the Titanic’s operator neither wrote it down nor mentioned it to the captain. The unsinkable Titanic held over two thousand passengers, many of which were third class sealed in the hull, one of which was Lewis Richard Braund.

His brother, Jim Braund emigrated to Canada and worked on a farm until he returned to convince his family to emigrate with him to Canada. “He subsequently returned to Devon to encourage other family members to accompany him back to Canada.” (Braund 1) Many of the third class had very similar reasoning to Braund in wanting to start a their lives over in the new world, unfortunately, many of them perished in the sinking of the Titanic. The fate of the third class was sealed when the first and second class passengers thought that they were more