Similarities Between Molly And Vivian In The Book 'The Orphan Train'

Experiencing further unstable environments, these children are forced to move from one foster home to another. They rarely develop meaningful relationships and constantly endure lack of care and protection by adults. Sabreen, another gifted student, was able to excel in school despite her unstable environments. She, too, became a ward of the county battling to find a stable home, constantly being placed in unstable environments, environments that do not encourage any achievement. When her situation becomes untenable, she goes AWOL, like Olivia, refusing to return to county supervision. Corwin masterfully frames the problem that wards, like Olivia and Sabreen, face when they feel that going back into the system is not an option. The additional struggles can be seen through Olivia and Sabreen accepting jobs with long hours in order to make enough to pay their bills. The responsibility on taking care of themselves financially detracts from their studies, which quickly can become a vicious, never-ending cycle.

In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline weaves a strong friendship between two characters, Vivian and Molly, despite a lengthy list of differences. The most blatant contrast, and the root cause of many other differences, is age and the separate eras both Vivian and Molly grow up in. In the span of her life, Vivian Nielsen, a ninety-one year old widow, experiences the Great Depression, World War II, and a technology boom impossible to keep up with. On the other hand, Molly Ayer is a sixteen year old tech-savvy foster child who uses “her Goth persona like armor” against an unsympathetic society (Kline 4). Another dissimilarity is ethnicity. Vivian is a first generation Irish immigrant and in being a Penobscot Native American Indian, Molly is unable to be more different than Vivian. While these differences seem apparent, the

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

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.

When she is at the warehouse she experienced fury, helpless and hope. After weeks of begging and praising the bow family to take her home. She was furiously ran when she could to try and get back home yet it lead her to a place she never knew of, the warehouse. In the brothel or the warehouse she violently attack many people who tried to touch her and she “... shrieked at the full power of her lungs...”to hopefully she would be saved from this miserable place. She felt hopeless after she was taken to the attic with Hannah to stay as she was a threat to other people from her actions. She felt that she would be there forever and thought after thinking everything was terrible, she realised she need her mum and prayed she was here with her. She yelled that Granny or Judah would came and rescue

Alice finally gains enough absolute experience and converse more honestly with other runaways in this section to understand

The orphan trains finally stopped in 1930 for several reasons, including a decreased need for farm labor in the Midwest and increased efforts by social service agencies to keep struggling families together. The rise of the welfare system made a major difference, helping with financial support for children, who, in an earlier age, might have taken to the streets(Warren, 1998)

In the book Freedom Crossing there is a boy that is a runaway slave and there is a boy that is a runaway slave and there is a girl was is sometimes a obstinate person. he boy name is Martin and the girls name is Laura. The story takes place in the early 1800"s. In the beginning of the story there was a girl named Laura it was her first year in the north. Most of her life she's life she's lived in the south. Laura thought slavery was good but her family thought slavery is horrible, awful. one day Laura's little brother Bert brought home a runaway slave. Bert brought home a runaway slave because Laura's house was a savehouse. Laura was furious! she thought she was being betrayed. In the middle Laura started releasing that slavery was

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

In the short stories Story of an Hour and A Rose for Emily, the two main characters Louise Mallard and Emily Grierson are both similar and dissimilar. These two characters lived in similar ideological societies and they shared a similar pattern of development. But also they differed in their goals and how they thought they could achieve their goals.

(Bowen, 2000.) Although not much insight is given into the awful relationship Mary had with her late husband, there’s is evident that she resents her daughter. Precious became the target of neglect and abuse due to the fact that, her father raped her and her mother instead of protecting her became jealous of her own daughter. Mary intentionally tries to impair her daughter Precious by constantly demoralizing her by telling her that she is ugly, fat and stupid. Mary is fixed on the idea of hurting her physically, emotionally and psychologically. Mary is a constant remind to Precious of how she will be nothing without her. As a result, she internalizes this tension and many aspects of her life suffers. Precious is performing poorly at school, her physical health is bad as she is overly obese and she is a loner in the sense that she makes no effort to befriend anyone. She is constantly worried about what her mother is going to do to her for the day or she is constantly on edge with her mother, not knowing what to

To kill A Mockingbird and The Diary of Anne Frank both address a young girls journey to maturity amidst a society prone to prejudice and racism. If someone was to compare the views, actions and environment that Anne Frank had grown admits, to that of Scout Finch, it would be very unlikely to find many differences. Growing up, Anne and felt isolated from society. Despite, the racism and prejudice environment they grew up in, both had hopes that the future would change for the better. Although, Anne and Scout were physically and emotionally similar, Anne matured while Scout didn’t through their journeys in the novel.

Orphan trains is a documentary about children in New York, being sent on trains to other parts of the country, in order to find families and be taken care of. There are stories from, adults that actually rode on these trains when they were children. The Orphan Trains was started by a man named Charles Loring Brace in 1854. Brace, had traveled to New York in the early 1850’s, and was horrified at the conditions of all the children he saw on the street. Brace felt that it was a duty to help these children out, and decided that the only way to help these children was to get them away from their surroundings, and send them away to be raised in nice, Christian homes around the country. So, in 1853, Brace founded the Children’s

Forgiveness, one of the most concentrated aspects of this novel. The Author intended each character to have a specific ‘thing’ they needed to find forgiveness over. Each of the girls undoubtedly express different positions toward forgiveness. Orleanna being the mother of a deceased child, cripple child, and an abusive husband has endured the most and struggled to find both forgiveness of herself and her ex husband. The height of her need for forgiveness of herself happened just after daughter, Ruth May’s death. Orleaanna felt as if she could have prevented the accident. The youngest; as she explained later in the book toward Adah “as a mother is needed most”. In the last chapter, Orleanna revisited the burial site of Ruth May, wishing to give

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.