Lyddie A Lowell Factory

Have you ever wondered what it's like to work in a factory? Imagine dust, lint, smoke, and noise all in one crowded room. This is what Lyddie Worthen in the book, Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson has to face. Lyddie has faced many hardships when working in the factory. Lyddie is a young girl who is sent off to work to pay the debts for her family. Lyddie was fired from her first job and went to Lowell, Massachusetts to be a factory girl. When working, there are poor working conditions. Other workers have started a petition to improve the working conditions. Lyddie should not sign the petition because she is mentally strong and is getting paid well.

The first reason Lyddie should sign the petition Is because girls are being harassed and not treated with respect. Lyddie is on her breakfast break talking to Betsy and Amelia when she notices Mr.Marsden is talking to one of the girls. While Lyddie is listening

Throughout the beginning of her speech, Kelley makes use of disturbing anecdotes that appeal to women's emotions. She first illustrates that while they “sleep, several thousand little girls” are “working in textile mills” throughout the night. This use of little girls working highlights that children all around the United States are not sleeping but are operating machines: making clothes for the adults to purchase. She incorporates this factor in order to encourage the concerned mothers to help alter labor laws so that their children are not working twelve-hour shifts. Kelley continues to describe how little girls of “six or seven years,” who are “just tall enough to reach” the machines, will be working eleven hours a day. Kelley’s use of the children's height emphasizes how as soon as children reach a certain height, they are being deprived of their childhood and sent to work in the factories. She continues to repeat the phrase that “while [they] sleep” little girls and boys “will be working” in the mills. Kelley’s continual use of this phrase evokes sympathy in the women so they can help change the lives of children by amending the harsh child labor laws.

Imagine being kidnapped and forced to work night and day on purses, in addition hardly any food or rest. In Threads, a novel by Ami Polonsky, Yuming, a thirteen-year-old girl, is trapped inside of a pink factory along with twenty-two other children, who are rumored to have been there for almost ten years. After finding a small piece of scrap paper, Yuming writes a note desperately asking for help and sticks it inside one of the purses. Clara, a twelve-year-old girl, finds the note inside of a purse at the Bellman’s department store in Evanston, Illinois. The note Yuming wrote stated “The middle of May. To Whom It May Concern: Please, we need help! There is pale pink factory, few hours outside of Beijing, somewhere in Hebei Province. 22 children in

In 1905, in the United States, some children as young as six years old are working in factories and women aren’t allowed to vote. Florence Kelley is a fiery and inspiring child labor activist and also a suffragette. On July 22, 1905, in Philadelphia, she gives a speech to the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA) to try to rally them to assist her in her main cause which is fixing the child labor system. In her speech where she doesn’t hold back, Kelley lets the audience know why the child labor system is atrocious and why they should get involved. She also tells them the steps that they should take to try to right these wrongs, in convincing their husbands to vote for child labor

Throughout life, one is faced with many experiences, and how one deals with those experience shapes one’s life. Laurie Channer’s Las Mantillas and Margaret Atwood’s It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers share the same theme of action versus inaction, however they define it from opposing perspectives. Action and inaction are complete opposites thus leading to completely different results. Whether taking action or remaining passive, strong feelings occur that can impact one’s life. Distance is also a huge factor in whether a person takes action or not, which is explored in both texts. While Channer’s Las Mantillas emphasizes the positive impact taking action has on an individual and society and Atwood’s It is Dangerous to Read Newspapers critiques the effects of inactivity, both agree that when faced with injustice it is vital to take action for one’s beliefs.

Florence Kelley is a social worker and reformer who fights for child labor laws and better working conditions for women. At the National Assembly Women Suffrage Association in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905, Kelley recites a speech about the issue of child labor laws. She uses rhetorical strategies such as repetition of the many negative aspects of child labor through specific examples, criticism of state policies, and emotional appeal. A combination of figures, logic, evidence, and emotional appeal will help convince her audience that child labor is a problem.

Florence Kelley, an active social worker and reformer of the 20th century, rants over the horrendous working conditions kids must endure. She presents this in her speech before National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia, which provides context and credibility for her argument. Kelley argues clearly of the terrible conditions and work hours kids suffer to bring about her message of, “enlisting the workingmen voters.” This is essentially to free the kids from the disastrous issue through her usage of credibility, empathetic tone to strike the audience, and her usage of examples of their conditions and state rules to support her message and purpose.

In the novel Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson a young is sent to work in a tavern getting paid $00.50 but later gets fired when her boss found her as she was leaving work to go visit her house and her brother. But Lyddie (the main character) has found a solution to all of her problems, she would go work as a factory girl in Lowell, Massachusetts getting paid $1.50 an hour for all of the work she had done and she would get to live in a boarding house with other factory workers. She heads off

As stated in page 92, “I can’t. I got to have the money. I got to pay the debts before –”. But, Lyddie doesn’t have the farm anymore, which means that there isn’t a debt that she needs to pay back. Then, what’s the use of working at all? According to page 148, “From time to time, she wondered why she was working so hard, now that the farm was sold and Rachel and Charlie lost to her.” This shows that Lyddie thought of the same question. It wouldn’t at all matter if she were to be blacklisted because she doesn’t have a reason to earn the money. The only reasons were to pay back the debt on the farm and get her family back together. But now there is nothing that money will be able to help

The novel Lyddie by Katherine Paterson is about a poor farm girl who finds herself working in a factory in Lowell, Ma. Lyddie is forced to find employment when her family could no longer afford the farm. Lyddie finds working conditions at the factory to be very difficult. Some girls want to write a petition to the government to ask for an improvement in conditions. Should Lyddie risk her employment by signing the petition? Lyddie should not sign, although others believe that she should.

Florence Kelley was a United States social worker and reformer who fought successfully for child labor laws and improved conditions for working women. Throughout her speech to the Philadelphia Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she stresses the importance of changing the working conditions that are in place for children. By using child labor as her baseline, Kelley is able to talk about her main point, which is her suggestion for women’s rights with the help of repetition, strong word choice, and opposition.

Life in the Iron Mills is a novella that is hard to classify as a specific genre. The genre that fits the most into this novella is realism, because of the separation of classes, the hard work that a person has to put into their every day life to try and make a difference, and the way society influences the actions of people and their relationships. However, no matter what genre is specifically chosen, there will be other genres present that contradict the genre of choice. While the novella shows romanticism, naturalism, and realism, this essay is specifically centered around realism. The ultimate theme in Rebecca Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills is the separation of classes and gender. It is the separation of classes when the people in the

This selection, Letter by a Female Indentured Servant, really gives you incite as to what life was like in the 1700s as an indentured servant. (Foner, 2011) The reader can really feel the pain she is going through while she was in America trying to pay her dues for passage to what they thought was the promise land. She wanted to ensure her father really knew what kind of horrible life she was living because of the details she included like she was whipped to the degree that she now serves the animals. Apparently, you didn’t speak of the horrible things that would occur as an indentured servant because she writes to her father that she hopes he will pardon the boldness of her complaints and she also hope

This decade includes the war years. The war economy with its lack of availability of raw material and manpower would most definitely affect the production of glass from the Heisey factory. Adding to these adjustments was a change in the leadership of the company. In January 1942, at age 66, E. Wilson Heisey died. The new president was his brother, T. Clarence Heisey.