ipl-logo

Lyddie Analysis

680 Words3 Pages

What would you do if you were forced to work 11chours a day jus as a kid? That’s what Lyddie had to do in the novel Lyddie by Kathrine Paterson. In this novel, Lyddie decides to go to the Concord Corporation and work as a mill girl to pay off the debts on her farm and reunite her family. She then meets her roommates: Betsy, Amelia, and Prudence. However, Lyddie then finds out that terrible working conditions, long hours, and even harassment are key reasons why she shouldn’t work there. But Lyddie is then faced with a petition regarding those issues that might even end them. Lyddie should not sign the petition because if she does, she could get blacklisted if she signs the petition. Also, she wouldn’t be able to support her family if she signs the petition. One reason why Lyddie should sign the petition is because she could get fired or even …show more content…

As I said earlier, signing the petition might get you fired so if Lyddie signs the petition, she’ll get fired so she wouldn’t be able to get money for her family. When Lyddie receives a letter from her mother, she gets or determined than ever to get money to support her family. “She must earn all the money she could to pay what they owed, so she could gather her family together…” (88) This shows that Lyddie is determined to raise money to support her family. But if she signs the petition, she could get fired. Then, she wouldn’t be able to support her family. Also, Lyddie needs money to pay off the debts of the farm. When Betsy and Amelia were arguing, Lyddie remembers he debts on the farm and says “I mean, please, don’t sign. I can’t. I got to have the money before…” (92) This shows that Lyddie needs to pay off the debts but if she signs the petition, she could get fired and she wouldn’t be able to pay off the debts. Therefore, Lyddie shouldn’t sign the petition because she wouldn’t be able to support her

Show More
Related

  • Examples Of Imperialism In The Poisonwood Bible

    914 Words  | 4 Pages

    This too is an example of why she took the actions that she

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Analysis On Florence Kelley

    936 Words  | 4 Pages

    Yes, she truly wishes to see these awful conditions changed, wants to see reform in the nation, but that’s not her entire goal. Instead, she begins to conclude her speech by offering a solution to these problems; allow women to vote. Becoming more intense with her tone and diction, Kelley begins to provoke thought in her audience, asking them that “if the mothers and teachers” in all of these states could vote, would these harsh laws exist? If women could take to the ballot, would children have to slave away inside of factories all night while their mothers lay safe in bed? She tells her audience that until women can vote, none of them can be free of conscious from what is happening, that nothing will ultimately change.

    Read More

  • 12 Hours Dbq

    335 Words  | 2 Pages

    Working longer than twelve hours a day would be considered preposterous for the average worker in modern-day America. Industrialization, however, forced hundreds of men, women, and children alike to work for sixteen hours daily. A poem by an unknown author states that “[before] dawn my labor drives me forth tis night when I am free” (Document 2). Workers have to get up even before dawn to begin their work, and they don’t return until late at night. This was particularly difficult for the women workers, as they were still expected to cook, clean, and care for the household even after working interminable hours of labor.

    Read More

  • Florence Kelley Ap Language Essay

    1013 Words  | 5 Pages

    Thus, Kelley effectively is able to move the men and women at the suffrage convention to advocate for women’s voting rights so that they can change the child labor laws by urging the audience at the convention to take a stand against this injustice. Kelley influences her audience to advocate for women’s suffrage in order to

    Read More

  • Historical Essay: Women's Suffrage In Canada

    1058 Words  | 5 Pages

    Later on, the Premier stated that although the government favoured women’s suffrage in principle, it would not act without proof of women wanting the right to vote in the first place. This statement given by the Premier was later on taken as a challenge and was taken up by Francis Marion Beynon, women’s editor of the Grain Growers’ Guide and her sister, Lillian Beynon Thomas, of the Winnipeg Free Press. The two then urged their readers to prove to the Premier that women indeed wanted the rights to vote and in turn, end women’s suffrage once and for all in Saskatchewan. They did so by asking their readers to write to the Premier to register their desire to vote.

    Read More

  • Supreme Court Debate Simulation Analysis

    144 Words  | 1 Pages

    The issue her is that, the lady is republican and she disagree with this political ideology because it has been done against her will. In this case I took a role to argue in favor of the lady and to support her ideological belief.

    Read More

  • Bonnie Steinbock's Argument Analysis

    782 Words  | 4 Pages

    She would easily defend her claim saying that humans have the obligation to take care of their own. Humans are allowed to extend their hands to take care of less fortunate members of our community. For example, let’s say a local church is donating food to the local community. In this scenario, there is a starving child who they do not know, and a starving dog. The church would feel obligated to first feed the starving child.

    Read More

  • Lyddie Dangerous Quotes

    594 Words  | 3 Pages

    As a result, Lyddie’s life is turned upside down as she has to take care of her little sister Rachel, while she is working in the factory. As stated in the novel it says, “Please let her stay. I’ll get

    Read More

  • Child Labor Laws In Katherine Paterson's Lyddie

    813 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the mid 1800s industry was advancing and children of all ages were working in dangerous factories. People attempted to strike against these rules, while some decided not to. In the book ¨Lyddie¨ by Katherine Paterson, the main character Lyddie has a job in a factory with very poor conditions and long hours. Since this was only the 1800s, child labor laws were not yet established and Lyddie was recently introduced to her idea of rebelling against the rules for more rights.

    Read More

  • Essay On 28th Amendment

    504 Words  | 3 Pages

    she may not further exploit the system. A company large enough to hold more than a million people will not be permitted to have employees on government assistance

    Read More

  • Working Conditions In Katherine Patterson's Lyddie

    809 Words  | 4 Pages

    In Katherine Patterson's novel Lyddie, the main character is facing a difficult decision to sign a petition to decrease the number of working hours and decrease the dangerous working conditions. On on hand, she thinks she should sign because of how it is affecting her and her friends, but on the other hand, she could get blacklisted for doing so. Lyddie is working in a mill with harsh working conditions. The air is polluted, humid, and on top of all that, the hours they spend in the crowded room with the looms is over fourteen hours each day. She traveled from her home at the farm, then to a tavern where after being fired, realized the best place to go was to Lowell, Massachusetts.

    Read More

  • Anna Howard Shaw's Speech

    420 Words  | 2 Pages

    She does not find it fair that only men are given the right opportunity to vote. Shaw’s tone is persuasive when she gives the definition of a republic to prove

    Read More

  • Hills Like White Elephants Rhetorical Analysis

    739 Words  | 3 Pages

    The decision is not an easy one to make, and it’s clear that she is struggling with what to do for herself and their

    Read More

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of Women's Rights To Suffrage By Susan B Anthony

    1137 Words  | 5 Pages

    In her speech she continues to say, “And it is a downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republic government -- the ballot.” (Anthony,1)

    Read More

  • Much Ado About Nothing Language Analysis

    1071 Words  | 5 Pages

    This isn’t her choice and this lack of authority over her actions counters her goal to be her own person, make her own choices, and her own decisions without interference or intervention from others, especially when no one can fully understand he because of the guards she has

    Read More

More about Lyddie Analysis

Open Document