Lyddie

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

This quote is important because later in the story Lyddie is going to become overly exhausted and start to become and act like a robot. So this is when Lyddie is in the factory and Mr. Marsden is treating her differently by giving her more looms. “She had done so well on her two, then three, machines that Mr. Marsden gave her a fourth loom” (98). These quotes are showing more reasons why Lyddie should sign the petition and leave the factory. This evidence shows that Lyddie should sign the petition. Lyddie is being harassed by Mr. Marsden in more ways than one.

Even though the wage was much better, the conditions were much worse. The smoke coming from the machines, short lunch breaks, long hours,and little sleep were making the girls sick, including Lyddie. This quote, “She was too tired now at night to copy a page of Oliver to paste to her loom. It hardly mattered. When would she have time to read it?”

And they do so tonight, while we sleep.” (Kelly, 10). In a like manner, Kelly uses specific phrases to create an image in the heads of the audience. Through the example of the girls reaching for a bobbin on the tall shelf, the author is able to incorporate the reader by making them think of past experiences similar to that given. She is able to make the audience relate to that character and in turn feel for that character. With the use of a few well thought out words, Kelly is able to prey on the audience's emotions and persuade them to her side. An additional occurrence of imagery in the speech is in lines 46-54 when she says, “In Pennsylvania, until last May it was lawful for children, 13 years of age, to work twelve hours at night. A little girl, on her thirteenth birthday, could start away from her home at half past five in the afternoon,........and could work in the mill from six at night until six in the morning, without violating any law of the Commonwealth.” (Kelly, 10). For the purpose of emphasis, Kelly adds in the girl’s thirteenth birthday. It helps her make the reader connect her speech in a

One reason Lyddie should not sign the petition is because she needs money to pay of th debt. “We got to think about keeping the farm for when papa comes back.” If Lyddie wants

After her father sets out on a journey and may never come back again, 13-year old Lyddie and 10-year old Charlie are hired out as servants in the tavern to pay back their family debt. Lyddie's mill life begins when she meets a mill girl dressed in rich, expensive clothes and learns that she can "clear at least two dollars a week" in the mill manufacturing cloth in Lowell, Massachusetts. In the historical fiction Lyunderlineddie by Katherine Paterson, Lyddie's friend; the infamous Diana Goss, circulates a petition asking for only 10-hours of work time per day. Lyddie should sign the petition because first, it's dangerous for young girls to work in a mill 13 to 14 hours a day, lots of workers get sick because of the strength it took to do mill work. Second, contagious factory air makes a lot of workers sick, working long hours allows the sickness to worsen. In addition, the workers are working longer hours and getting paid less. Lyddie should sigh the petition because of many different factors, signing the petition will improve Lyddie's mill conditions.

All of the factory workers aren’t as strong and youthful as they were when they first came to work in the mills. It really wasn’t “right for this place to suck the strength of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the wind.” (113) This is what the factory life did to the young workers. It wasn’t at all fair for the factory life to drain the workers of their youth. After the factory life sucks their strength & youth, the workers will “never be strong enough again to work in a mill thirteen, fourteen hours a day.” (113) The workers will never be strong enough just because they worked in the mill. They are permanently scarred for life due to their weak body. Also, Lyddie had heard “that wretched hacking sound that sawed through her rib cage straight into her heart …and knew it to be Rachel.” (139) Even the youngest & newest worker can quickly get sick. Rachel hasn’t worked in the mill for even a month yet she is already sick. Lyddie should sign the petition because the factory life drains the youth out of the young factory

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.

Girls as young as 10 years old start working 13-14 hours a day for 6 days at the Lowell mill. The book “Lyddie” by Katherine Patterson conveys the struggles girls faced in the 1800s because of the working condition in the Lowell. The book revolves around the world of a 13 year old girl who is separated from her family so she can pay the debts and save their farm. Some people say Lyddie should not sign the petition because she needs to earn money for her family. Lyddie should sign the petition because the environment at the mill is not healthy nor is it safe and the corporation makes workers work hard for very less pay and wears them out.

And Lyddie might have to stay at the factory longer. Another reason why Lyddie should not sign the petition is that she could get blacklisted. If Lyddie got blacklisted then she cannot work at any factory again. “I’m thinking of you. What will you do with no job? You’d be blacklisted.” If Lyddie got blacklisted she would never have the money again, never pay the debt and she won’t have a home or any food. My connection to the claim is that Lyddie shouldn’t sign the petition because she could get blacklisted and fired. Lyddie needs the money for the debt that’s why she is working, if she paid the debt she could go back to the farm.

In the 1800 factories, working conditions are unfair. In Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson there is a girl who lives in the 1800’s. She work in a factory witch has unfair working conditions and Diana Goss wants to have a petition to make fair working conditions. Some people want Lyddie to sign the petition because then she will have fair working conditions.If she doesn't the she will be able to make money and she will work at a factories.

Decisions. Everyone has to make them easy or not. In the novel Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson a 13 year old girl from Vermont, Lydia Worthen traveled to the factories in Lowell, Massachusetts. Working to pay off her father’s debts she discovers the horrible working conditions and has to decide whether or not to sign a petition for better working conditions. While there are reasons why Lyddie should not sign the petition there are more reasons why she should sign the petition. Lyddie should sign the petition because it will give her better work hours, wages, and a better work environment.

2. Daubie wrote this document in order to advocate for the women factory workers, who she argues that the horrible working conditions. For example fact that women work 14 hours a day for low wages and are paid significantly less than men. Women were also harassed at work and were away from the house all day, unable to attend to their children.

The story "Lyddie by Katherine Paterson is about a young girl that is only 13 years old and is working a hazorudous job she used to live in Massachusetts but her famelys farm goes into debt so she leaves them and starts working, when Lyddie begins to know how hard and unjust the job is she wants to sign the pettion but she knows what could happen if she does, which is she will probably get black listed ,and never have a chance to work again One of the reasons why i thik Lyddie should 'not' sign the pettition is because she needs the money so she could pay the debt that her family ows as it says in chapter 12 pg 88, '' She must earn the money,so she could gather her family together back to the farm.''

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