Orphan Train

Orphan Trains 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

Orphan Trains 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

Joe Spencer Sharon Miller English 99 23 February 2016 Orphan Train is a novel about Molly and Vivian who spend time together and share their life experiences. Molly is a 17 year-old girl, a Penobscot Indian who is aging out of the foster care system, and her improbable friendship with a 91-year-old woman named Vivian, an Irish immigrant child that rode an orphan train. Vivian Explains that the Nielsen family depend on her. Vivian begins to set on making make the store as lucrative as possible

Orphan Train is a novel about the relationship between seventeen year old Molly Ayer and ninety one year old Vivian Daly who form a bond, and change in multiple ways. Molly is a foster child in Maine who is about to age out of the system. She was put into the system after her father died in a car accident and her mother was strung up on drugs. Molly lives with unpleasant Dina and shy Ralph. One day Molly steals a book, the judge sentenced her to fifty hours of community service. Molly's boyfriend

Orphan Train does an exceptional job at showing what Christina Baker Kline was referencing to in her quote. In particular, I thought that Orphan Train was able to effectively give insight into how the way that people tell their stories can give away details about them. In addition to this, I thought that Kline did a wonderful job at showing how trauma works to shape people’s lives. By carefully choosing the words and phrases she used to tell Molly’s story, Kline was able to show how the way that

After reading the novel Orphan Train, I watched a documentary called American Experience: The Orphan Trains. It showed a lot of things that I still can’t wrap my head around. I could not even imagine having to ride an orphan train or going through anything like that. It is actually really sad just thinking about what they all had to go through. Reading the book and watching the documentary has led me to a deeper understanding of this experience. One thing that really surprised me was the fact that

Joe Spencer Spencer 1 Sharon Miller English 99 16 March 2016 Lost and Found Orphan Train is a novel about Molly and Vivian, who spend time together and share their life experiences. Molly is a 17-year-old girl, a Penobscot Indian who is aging out of the foster care system, and her improbable friendship with a 91-year-old woman named Vivian, an Irish immigrant child that rode an orphan train. Vivian is born Niamh, who is renamed Dorothy and renamed name again to Vivian as she is left by

The Orphan Train was written by Christina Baker Kline. The story highlights orphaned children living in New York’s streets that were sent to other states via train for family placement. However, the children during this time were more looked up as free labor. The Orphan Trains started in the 1850’s. This story highlights the 1920’s and how the Children’s Aid Society provided aid for orphaned children, which was ever-present as an estimated 30,000 children were homeless in New York city in the

Orphan Train In the novel, Orphan Train, Christine Baker Kline builds a strong relationship between a teenage girl, Molly, and an elderly widow, Vivian. Molly starts out with committing a crime and now has to volunteer fifty hours of community service. Her boyfriend, Jack, tells her about an older woman who needs help to start cleaning out her attic. “Molly has decided to think of this job as indentured servitude”(Kline 52). From the first hour of Molly’s community service, even though Molly didn’t

The book Orphan Train written by Christina Baker Kline gives the reader a detailed look into the lives of both Vivian and Molly, and how their stories compare and contrast. Molly, a young “goth” teenage girl who is orphaned at young age due to the death of her father, is introduced as a “delinquent” of sorts that has to make up for a book she has stolen from the library. Her boyfriend, Jack, finds a volunteering opportunity for her through his mother; the job requires Molly to sort through and get