The choices we make affect our future in many ways. In the historical fiction novel, lyddie, by Katherine Patterson, a girl named lyddia worthen is working to pay her family's debt`s at lowell factory. A factory that makes clothing for people. This story takes place in the 1900`s, where factory woman we're going on strike about their work environment, And the woman started making a petition that they`d sign, it would be about their wages, working hours, and environmental problems. While there are many reasons lyddie should not sign there are more reasons why she should! First she & her sister both got sick because of the working conditions. Second, because all of the factory workers are mistreated in many way`s. One reason is that people …show more content…
She asked for a transfer to the drawing room…” Lyddia`s friend, betsy, got sick from the dusty air.“ she began to lie awake listening for the awful sound, until finally, she knew she had to send the child away ~ anywhere, just so she was not breathing this poison air…” Lyddia`s little sister got sick because of the air.Most girls die from sickness, lyddia is lucky she didn't. The weaving room is very dangerouse. The woman who work in the factory are living terribly. “ a girl slipped on the icy staircase in the rush to dinner and had broken her neck in the fall” They should put some salt over the staircase or at least a caution sign. “A man loading finished bolts of cloth onto the railroad cars in the lawrence millyard had been run over and crushed…” The people should put up signs, for everyone's safety. “There we're no deaths at the concord corperation, but one of the irish girls in the spinning room had caught her hair in the machinery and was badly hurt…” The new irish girl, hurt herself while working. The workers in the factory should start ensuring everyone's
Cara Sierra Skyes has a hard role in Perfect by Ellen Hopkins. Cara is in love with her boyfriend Sean, she describes him as fun, good-looking, adventurous, and a jock. Everyone expects the perfect girl to go out with the perfect guy. Caras mom has always taught her, appearances are everything. So, Cara held onto that. She is a pretty and popular cheerleader. Cara holds a special trait, she is actually really smart and has a scholarship lined up at Stanford. Problem is, Cara has a twin brother, Connor. Connor is super suicidal and has tried many times to kill himself, sadly one day he succeeds and leaves a girlfriend and his family behind in his high school years. So everything is definitely not the idea her parents have of “perfect”. At Least she tries. Cara is in love with her boyfriend Sean but she starts to spark an interest for a girl at the ski slopes one day and she becomes very confused. Between dealing with all her school activities, her grades, and her brother that she worries about all the time, Cara is struggling to keep her life together and be
Yafa’s description of the mills presents a setting that is ugly, monotonous, and rigidly regulated. The mills is a common fixture to a manufacturing factory in modern society, so the readers can identify with the uniformity Yafa describes. From five until seven in
Life has been tough for the teenagers on the street, they all find out about the struggles of living in these cold hard streets. Barbara Haworth-Attard shows us life on the streets of the four main characters in her book theories of relativity. Living on the streets is tough, and these four kids found out the hard way. Most of them will be stuck on the streets forever such as amber, twitch, and Jenna, but Dylan might be able to make it out
Women nowadays are allowed to do everything that men can, but it was not always this way. In Geoffrey Trease’s Cue for Treason, Katherine Russell, a young lady in Elizabethan England plays the role of one of the protagonists who goes on an adventurous journey. Russell is a remarkable ambassador of equality for women because she is able, daring and intelligent.
In the story Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson there is a character named Melinda, Melinda is starting high school, but Melinda is having trouble with High school because none of her friends do not want to collaborate with her. One day she snuck out of her house and went to a party ,and called the police. In my opinion Melinda should talk to her parents about what happened at the party.
The story “A View of the Woods” was written by Flannery O Connor’s. It looks to me the old man (Mr. Fortune) owned a large amount of land. The old man lives with his daughter, her husband (Pitts) and his seven grandchildren. The old man only cares about one of the seven grandchildren (Mary Fortune). Furthermore, the little girl was an image of him at birth. She was his favorite grandchild so he wanted to name her after his deceased mother (Mary Fortune). The old man believes the little girl (Mary Fortune) was the prettiest youngster he had ever seen. The Old man lets the others know the little girl will inherit his estate when he passes away. Although, the old man believes they are all stupid except the youngest one (Mary Fortune). However, the old man allows his daughter and her family to live on his land and farm it, but the old man wants to control all aspects of it.
In the short story, “Until Gwen” by Dennis Lehane, it starts off with the main character named Bobby who is getting picked up by his father from prison with a stolen Dodge Neon. His father wasn’t alone, he brought himself a company and it was a hooker named Mandy. We got a sense of who his father was, a “professional thief, a consummate con man” (647). We don’t know why he was in prison until the rest of the story slowly reveals the flashbacks he has with his girlfriend Gwen and the incident prior of going to jail. Bobby has no sense of who he is or where he is from because there no proof of record of him such as a birth certificate. After meeting Gwen, his life has changed and felt the sense of belonging into the world he is living in. Bobby’s
There are many norms associated with being a woman and being a man, especially during the time period of which Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers was written in. These include, but are not limited to, the following (feminine and masculine counters are separated by a / ): one must always obey males because they are the superior sex/one must not allow women to hold any form of power because they are the weaker sex, one must obey her husband/one must not let his wife do whatever she pleases, and one must not live with another of the opposite sex unless they are relatives or married. Despite these norms being set in place for most of the characters in Strong Poison, there are a few exceptions for on both the feminine and masculine side.
In “Love Lucas” by Chantele Sedgwick, Oakleys qualities help the book's theme of there always being someone there for you even through the hardest times, by adding her shy and counseling traits. In the text on (page 240, line 4) “ And all this time i know it's really been me pushing her away.” In this text, Oakley finally realizes that her mom has always loved her, she just hasn't realized it, because she was always withdrawn since lucas died. In the text on (page 240 line 3) “She loves me, I know that now” In this text, oakley knows her mom loves her, even though she just doesn't show it, Oakley knows deep down her mom has always been there for her. This means that there was always someone there for her, and she knows it now. in the evidence
The American Dream is something that anyone no matter their background, social standings, or ethnicity can improve their life through hard work.
In "Miss Brill," by Katherine Mansfield, Sundays are a magical day for Miss Brill until she is forced to step out of her daydream and face reality. Every Sunday Miss Brill, a shy English school teacher, goes to the Public Gardens and takes her "special seat" to look forward to listening to the conversations of others.. This lonely older woman has become quite the expert on eavesdropping. Miss Brill starts to view everything she observes on Sundays in the form of a beautifully choreographed theatrical performance in which everything, herself included, plays a role. This is a place where she feels as though she"belongs." One Sunday her fantasy is shattered by the inconsiderate and harsh remarks of a young couple. Mansfield shows us how hurtful the truth can be to people who haven't realized or accepted the reality in which they live.
In the breathtaking book, Speak, by Laurie Hales Anderson, she gives insight into the ups and downs of high school in the eyes of her main character, Melinda. More specifically, Anderson focuses on one down fall, which happens primarily through Melinda “[Going] to [an] end-of the summer party, with beer, seniors, and music” and getting raped (Anderson, 133). While rape victims should tell their story, Anderson rejects the significance of having Melinda talk of her case as a way of showing the consequence of holding your tongue. Efficiently, as a result of her not speaking of her assault at the party, it causes her to go through an important change from the beginning of the novel, to the ending of the novel. According
In Daisy Miller, Henry James slowly reveals the nature of Daisy"s character through her interactions with other characters, especially Winterbourne, the main character." The author uses third person narration; however, Winterbourne"s thoughts and point of view dominate." Thus, the audience knows no more about Daisy than Winterbourne." This technique helps maintain the ambiguity of Daisy"s character and draws the audience into the story.
“The Judge’s Wife” a short story written by Isabel Allende presents many of the necessary techniques required to write an effective short story. Alledende’s keen use of setting, character development, and point of view dramatically affect the way the reader perceives the story during crucial turning points throughout the story. Alledende uses these devices to make the theme of fate being inescapable, no matter how hard on tries to avoid it. setting, character development, and point of view play a vital role within the story and without them it would be impossible to fully understand the story.
When Virginia Woolf first began sketching out her plans for Mrs. Dalloway she wrote in her journal that she wanted to show “the world seen by the sane and the insane”. Although Clarissa Dalloway is the story’s main character there is a parallel and equally significant male lead as well, Septimus Smith. These characters are an interesting set because they balance each other perfectly. They have much in common but even more to set them as almost polar opposites. Clarissa is very involved with the physical world, worrying about parties and very aware of her surroundings. Septimus on the other hand is almost introverted, and confined to his own mind. Although the two characters never formally meet they are bounded together through their links with other characters, almost like a tree where two leaves are on the same branch but still very far away.