Orphan Train

Discover Yourself Through Others The book Orphan Train, written by Christina Baker Kline, explores the life of a teenage outcast named Molly and reveals how Molly’s relationship with an elderly widow helps her understand herself. Molly lost both of her parents at a young age and spent most of her teen years in foster care. After stealing a book from a bookstore, Molly must do community service. She chooses to help an old woman named Vivian clean out her attic. During the weeks Molly spends with Vivian

Orphan Trains Orphan trains are considered to be the starting origin of foster care. Orphan trains were around in the mid 19th and early 20th century. The organization that ran these Orphan trains was called the Children’s Aid Society. Charles Loring Brace was one of the well known reformers of the Children’s Aid Society, the CAS provided an alternative for almshouses . The CAS developed a shelter for Urban youth where they provided religious instruction and looked to place orphan children

During the 18 and 1900’s it was an encumbrance to care for children, The Orphan Train Movement took a stand by giving children nourishing homes and liberties. Immediately after changing protection and government acts it gave parents the relief of their child having a more successful life than they were born into. Many legacies are still alive today from The orphan Movement including, The Children’s Aid Society, modern day orphanages, and the reformed lives of 150,000 children. At the end of the civil

Aid Society plays an integral part in Kline’s novel Orphan Train. It is the organization that runs the titular “Orphan Trains” from the novel upon which Vivian’s journey to the Midwest takes place. Without the Children’s Aid Society, Vivian would have been stuck in New York all alone after her family died. The man behind the Children’s Aid Society is one Charles Loring Brace. Before Mr. Brace, the only safe havens for homeless children were orphan asylums and almshouses. Mr. Brace and a group of social

“The Orphan Train,” by Christina Baker Kline, was an amazing read, and tells the stories of the two main characters, Molly and Vivian. The narration hops between these two often, moving from Molly’s story in the 2011 to 91 year old Vivian’s story back in 1926. The novel’s prologue begins in Vivian’s point of view, wherein Vivian establishes her loneliness by talking about all the people she has lost in her life. However she says that these people, her lover, her sister Maisie, and many others linger

Orphan Train The book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is an impactful story that makes readers remember to be grateful and is filled with realness and remarkable coincidental moments. Although this book is fiction, the book speaks sincerity and realistic stories of the orphans and their experiences. Vivian states, “My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection” (Baker Kline 260). Christina definitely did her research and it shines through the writing and any reader

increases in urbanization. Movements such as The Great Migration lead to huge populations in newly industrialized cities. In addition, there was a great increase in immigration, especially from families of eastern and southern European descent. The Orphan Train Movement’s purpose was to give the thousands of children in New York City that were left without homes due to increased urbanization and industrialization a new family out west with good living conditions and values and to increase the number of

Throughout the novel Orphan Train, there is the reoccurring importance of names for characters. Niamh receives a total of three different names in her lifetime, each name representing a different persona. Niamh is naïve and acts her age, Dorothy experiences hardships and is forced to suppress her emotions, Vivian is identified as the Neilson’s child and has a more stable home life. On the other hand, Molly has a significant name to her culture that helps her to relate to her culture with the events

Orphan Train: Literary Analysis A portage is a journey that Indians take over land from one body of water to the next. They must travel light, so they must decide what is essential and nonessential. In the novel Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, Molly and Vivian take a journey where they decide what is important and what to leave behind. The novel Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline proves that family leads to belonging as shown through the symbolism of the necklaces, the relationships of

Orphan Train a novel by Christina Baker Kline is a beautiful story about a seventeen year old girl named Molly Ayer who has lived in a foster home since she was nine and a ninety-one year old lady named Vivian who accepts Molly into her home and shares her life story with her for a school project. This story shows the hardship, friendship, and loneliness about the two girls and the connection with each other. The story behind the book goes back to the year 1854 when over 200,000 orphans were sent