Child Labor In The Victorian Era Essay

Moreover they depart them trapped soon after birth, or they may discard them when they are child. There are mothers who neglect their children when they are youngsters. Cholly‘s mother in The Bluest Eye dump him soon after birth. His life is pessimistically forced by his inability to classify with his inherited past. Cholly is neglected by his father before his birth and forsaken by his mother nine days after birth.

But then you were born!”(75~76). In the quote the Jack’s mother mentions that she was 10 year old orphan for six years. Until she met her “American” husband which is Jack’s dad. Jack’s Dad could not understand her until the birth of Jack. Since she had no friend and the family, she felt more Lonely.

She said: “He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I feared him, and every morsel of flesh on my bones shrank when he came near.” (Bronte 8) When Jane is giving us a description of her childhood, you can’t help but feel concerned for her safety. After Mrs. Reed had enough of her, Jane was sent to an orphanage that was erupting with sickness. There, she got her education, and became a diligent governess. She had no family, no friends, and no money.

When Emily was young, her mother was forced to work hard to support the family and she was sent to her grandparents’ home. It was two years old when Emily was taken back to home again. Without her mother’s accompanying and love, Emily didn’t know how to express her feelings. We could discover this from following passage that Emily unrequited love with a boy and she stole money to buy candies for him in order to show her love. She was not good at speaking.

When parents kick their daughter from their houses they feel angry,upset and at the same time they feel really sad to see their daughter decision. Parents don’t like to see them on their houses because they need to work for they can support their children and to give them a better future. For example, on the article (family beat 14-year-old impregnated by a relative into delivering stillborn baby before disposing of the remains on a charcoal grill.) It said that “The unnamed victim was repeatedly assaulted between January and March 2013 when she eventually gave birth to a stillborn baby at the house in Pleasant Grove in Dallas, Texas. ”This quote means that the parents get really mad about the things that their daughter make and when they want to punish them they make it so hard for them because they can killed them.

Her family always lived in constant hunger due to poverty. Liesel’s mother had to sustain the family on her own now that her husband was taken away for being a communist. In an effort to make life better for her children, Mrs. Meminger decided to put her two children up

She also starts to hang with the wrong crowd after she got expelled from her old school Hazlehurst because of her behaviors and that she didn 't do any of her school work as well. Another conflict in the book is that she blames her dad and his new girlfriend for her mother 's death and she can 't live in the same house as them. Kenisha response to her conflict is that she takes the incentive to moves out her dad 's house and away from his girlfriend to live with her grandmother, she couldn 't accept that his girlfriend cried about the same thing her mom had gone through and that she was pregnant and naming her baby after her

Both of these examples show that the Victorian Era and present day child labor are similar. Even though that child labor today and in the Victorian Era are similar, they are very divergent. One of the major differences is the need for child labor. In the tourism business the need for labor has been increasing. “ Those seeking work---or parents seeking jobs for their children---naturally gravitate towards establishments with a demand for unskilled labor”( Edralin, 2002).

For example, sometimes a female slave could not take care of her own children because she was forced to nurse the children of her master. Here, Sethe also had the same critical situation because she saw her mother hanged in front of her. Sethe longed for her mother’s love because as an infant she did not stay with her mother. Another woman named Nan who was the friend of Sethe’s mother took care of her. Sethe was angry because her mother did not take Sethe with her, but she let Sethe live when she died.

The living situation forces her to face such a dilemma: one is to find another monotonous job; another is to go back to hometown. Meanwhile, her sister’s life is like a mirror and seems to tell her future life — nonstop working hard but still living in a so small and ragged space with her husband and child. This life is not she wanted and she feels disillusioned with honest and diligent overworked poverty. She refuses to return to the factory.

Imagine being sold into sex slavery by one of the most important people in your life…your father. Well this is what happened to Lakshmi in the book Sold by Patricia McCormick. Lakshmi, a 12 year old girl, lives in a village in Nepal. She lives with her goat, baby brother, mother, and stepfather. Lakshmi despises her stepfather because he does not have a job and he spends all the money that her mother earns on useless materials.

Mama describes herself as a big-boned woman with hands that are rough from years of physical labor. She wears overalls and has been both mother and father to her two daughters. Poor and uneducated, she was not given the opportunity to break out of her rural life. She doesn’t understand Dee’s life, and this failure to understand leads her to distrust Dee. Mama sees Dee’s life as a rejection of her family and her origins.

In Florence Kelley’s speech, through her use of parallel structure and detailed description to describe the conditions of child labor, anecdotes that relay its prominence, appeals to emotion and motherhood, she conveys an effective message that child labor is unjust. Kelley illustrates a sweaty, brutal environment in which children are responsible for the production of many items that people use daily. According to Kelley, “Under the sweating system, tiny children make artificial flowers and neckwear for us to buy.” Words like “tiny children” and “sweating system” describe an environment that no one will feel comfortable in.

Children were put in situation where they had to choose between school and work. Most times the choice was work because they had to support their family. Child laborer took advantage of this. They hired children from about ages four to fourteen to work in factories or on the farm. The children worked long hours with minimal breaks.