Orphan Train : A Historical Fiction Novel Written By Christina Baker Kline

Redemption, a word with many meanings but few examples. People who usually think of redemption will normally think about Jesus, but few ever think of Molly Ayer and Niamh Power. Molly Ayer is a young troubled orphan teenager with a gothic persona, who desperately tried to find a family who she can call her own. Vivian is a 91-year-old women, who is more commonly known as Vivian. has agreed to help Molly complete her 50 hours of community service while Molly is on probation after she was caught steal a book. Throughout the novel Molly and Vivian will enlightened each other with their own past and their various similarities that will help them develop a closer bond with each other. In the book, “The Orphan Train” Molly Ayer and Vivian

Auntie Cockles gave Elizabeth a grand welcome, and sat her down by the kitchen fire and told her all the latest news of the orphanage. What interested Elizabeth most was the appearance of a new housemistress, and the disappearance of four girls her age in the six months after Miss Samuels’ arrival.

We first see Jane; vulnerable and lonely at Gateshead, where the orphaned little girl resides with her bitter widowed aunt and her children. Jane is sent to the ‘Red Room’ for retaliating when her

In any genuine friendship there are the differences between the people that spark curiosity, yet, it is similarities that draw two together to form a tight bond. This is evident in the friendship that starts between Vivian and Molly. Vivian, from outward show, does not display the slightest similarity with Molly. It is not until one examines the often tragic back stories of both that striking parallels begin to be made clear. By the time all is uncovered, the likenesses shared between Vivian and Molly far outweigh any disparities. In examining the relationship between Vivian and Molly, a perfect balance is struck in Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline.

Orphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film "The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A People's History of the United States 1492-present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street gangs had female auxiliaries, they also had farm leagues for children (These are the Good Old Days, 19). During the time of the late 1800's and early 1900's many people were trying to help children. Progressive reformers, often called

The book "Train Go Sorry" was authored by Leah Hager Cohen it is a story of an unknown culture; the book focuses on hearing loss, both as a disability and as a culture. The book was written in the first and third person narrative and it follows the daily lives of Ms. Leah Cohen and several other students and staff at Lexington School for the Deaf in New York. Ms. Cohen’s Grandfather Sam was deaf and attended Lexington when it was first founded. This was "seen" as the foundation for Cohen’s father Oscar and finally Leah as well as their family (who are both able to hear) to build their lives at Lexington. Her father Oscar became the superintendent of Lexington school and Leah spent her childhood within the school's walls. By her father becoming superintendent of the Lexington school this resulted in the whole family becoming fluent in ASL. Ms. Cohen’s father Oscar spent his career trying the best he could to listen to the needs of deaf/hard of hearing individual's needs and doing the best he could to advocate for them. The book also follows the lives of several individuals who attended Lexington, some of the individuals who were in attendance were Ms. Sofia and Ms. Irina Normatov and Mr.

Ellen finds a woman at church that takes in orphan girls, but will there be any room for her? Will it just end up being another misunderstanding, like with her aunt, who was under the assumption that she would just be visiting for a few days. It is Ellen’s determination which eventually lands her a place in a loving home, with loving companionship.

Between 1854 and 1929 the United States was engaged in an ambitious, and ultimately controversial, social experiment to rescue poor and homeless children, the Orphan Train Movement. The Orphan Trains operated prior to the federal government’s involvement in child protection and child welfare. While they operated, Orphan Trains moved approximately 200,000 children from cities like New York and Boston to the American West to be adopted. Many of these

Unlike other authors, Colson Whitehead decided to develop his main character in a unique and complex way in his novel The Underground Railroad. Cora’s character development not only occurs with the people she meets, but also with the locations she passes through. Each station, with its own interior and setting, is what ultimately affects her character’s state of mind. Since every state has a different view on slavery, it is natural that the conditions of each station reflect that of the opinions of the outside world, hence affecting Cora herself. Her struggles she faced in order to get to freedom both built her up and tore her down; the root of this driving force can be found within the railroad’s interior.

At the age of ten, most children are reliant on their parents for everything in their lives needing a great deal of concentration and concern. However, Ellen, the main character and combatant of the novel Ellen Foster, demonstrates a significant amount of self-reliance and mature, impartial thought as a ten-year-old girl. Ellen is a bantling even though she was not deserted, she was impoverished of a normal childhood. Her life as a child was immensely hard, physically and emotionally. She never had a mother or father take care of her through her entire youth. The recent mortality of her mother sends her on a journey for the optimal family, or anywhere her father, who had shown insensitivity to both she and her frail mother, was not. Kaye Gibbons’

The Orphan Train movement provided many children with homes during a very difficult time. Many of these children were loved and treated very well, but many were not. Many children were separated from parents and siblings for the remainder of their

"If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver." If -- not when. Sentiments like this echo hauntingly through the pages of Alex Kotlowitz's account of his two-year documentation of the lives of two brothers, Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers. The boys are afforded little happiness and too much grief, trying to survive from day to day in their appartment at the crime-ridden Henry Horner Homes housing project on the outskirts of Chicago. When Kotlowitz approached the boys' mother, LaJoe, about writing the book about her children, she agreed with him, but felt the need to set him straight. "But you know, there are no chlidren here. They've seen too much to be children," LaJoe told Kotlowitz.

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was written by Ann Petry. It was published by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1955. The book has 242 pages. This book tells about Harriet 's life as a young slave and how she escaped slavery. She led many other slaves to freedom in the North throughout her life.

Vivian is Grant’s beautiful, passionate, and smart girlfriend. She teaches at a black Catholic school in Bayonne. During the book she is married, but separated from her husband, so her relationship with Grant is kept a secret. She has two small children with her husband. Vivian loves Grant but often distrusts him because of his lack of loyalty to his people and hometown.

To begin, Vivian is the wife of Rusty Regan and the older sister of Carmen. She's just as much of a knockout as her kid sister, but in place of Carmen's blonde hair and slate-gray eyes, Vivian has dark, wiry hair and coal black eyes. Whereas Carmen comes off as the delicate,