Orphan Essays

  • The Orphan Train Analysis

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    Life is composed of a bunch of different events, some great and some not so good. For all of the orphans in the world, most of the events in their life fall into the not so good category. Imagine losing your parents and being put into a system you have no control of. In, The Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, she explains the how the system The Children’s Aid Society set up worked. They had very good intentions but unrealistic expectations, most of the kids were placed into bad homes and had

  • Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

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    Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is a historical fiction novel that compares the lives of two orphans, Molly and Vivian. Molly is a teenager who becomes an orphan after her father dies since her mother is not allowed to take care of her because her mother is addicted to drugs. Molly has moved to several different homes with many different families and currently lives with foster parents. Vivian, on the other hand, is a 91 year old woman who immigrates from Ireland in the 1930’s after her family

  • Earthquake Of 2010 Affected The Number Orphans And How We Can Help

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    Understanding How the Haitian Earthquake of 2010 Affected the Number Orphans and How We Can Help Have you thought about a natural disaster that happened years ago, leaving no effect on you at all? Why would you have a reason to? The effects of an earthquake that happened five years ago have probably been solved by now. Right? But unfortunately, the people of Haiti are still struggling and dying because of the earthquake that occurred five years ago. All of these problems are raising the number

  • Molly In Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

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    The book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline was about a girl named Molly who is a considered a Goth at her school. Molly has black fingernails, wears dark clothes, has black clothes, and listens to dark music as well. Molly is an outcast at her school and does not have many friends, or people that like the same things she likes. Molly is having a tough time adjusting to her peers around her. I would rate this book a 6/10 because the author makes this story boring and it is hard for me to follow

  • Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

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    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 that connect with each other.But the story behind the book goes back to the year 1854 when over 200,000 orphans were sent

  • Orphan Train Movement Research Paper

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    In 1854, America began what is known as The Orphan Train Movement, which lasted approximately 75 years. The trains moved about 200,000 children from cities like New York and Boston to the American West to be adopted (Brown) . Many organizations opened their doors to these orphans who were mostly living on the streets. The Children’s Aid Society was a much needed organization that helped orphan train riders, but many other organizations competed with the Children’s Aid Society. Organizations started

  • The Orphan Train By Christina Baker Kline

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    The Orphan Train Did you have a happy childhood growing up? In the Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline shares the story of an often forgotten and quite tragic part of American history, orphan trains. Orphan trains were a system of trains that ran from 1854 to 1929. They started in New York and took abandoned children to several points throughout the midwest to be adopted. While some children found happy homes, many were placed into homes where they were ignored, abused, or treated as servants.

  • Journal One: Orphan Train By Christina Baker Kline

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    Journal 1: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline In the novel Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, the two main characters are two orphans who, because of their shared experiences, find kindred spirits in each other. At the beginning of the story, they are both lost inside themselves, allowing their pasts to dictate their day-to-day lives. This is apparent on page 176 when Vivian explains, “The first twenty-three years of my life...shaped me.” Her first twenty-three are, as Vivian claims, “The

  • Poverty In Haiti

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    Children were running barefoot in sewage infested streets with pieces of glass everywhere. The people slaughtered animals and ate fish that were several weeks old in order to survive. The two main results of poverty in Haiti are the huge amount of orphans and devastating living

  • Persuasive Essay On Foster Care Failure

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    We all end up lucky or unfortunate. We get lucky with the parents that love and care for us, and unfortunate with the ones who do not want us, or don’t care for us. For foster kids, they go through several houses with several different families. Sometimes these families are not the ideal family, and there is abuse and neglect in these homes. Foster kids never really get a break until they are adopted by a loving family. Sadly, they usually are more unfortunate than lucky. Treating foster kids poorly

  • Orphan Orphan Train Quotes

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    In the novel Orphan Train, the theme is having your home on your back like a turtle and feeling out of place. The definition of theme is the main message in a story. Molly got a turtle tattoo on her hip to symbolize her life and the struggles she has faced. Some of their struggles are harsher than others. Emotionally, Molly and Vivian experienced traumatic challenges and the feeling of loss. Both of their parents died when they were younger. As an orphan, they had to let go of several

  • Mrs Bigio Quotes

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    Imagine that you wake up every day knowing that the person you love died in war. That is what it is like to be Mrs. Bigio from The Wednesday Wars. In Gary Schmidt’s novel The Wednesday Wars. Mrs. Bigio starts the book as a rude and racist character. But throughout the book, Mrs. Bigio becomes nice and trustable. At the beginning of the book Mrs. Bigio starts off rude and racist. In this scene, Mai Thi is in the lunch line going up to get food and Mrs. Bigio says this. “Pick it up and be glad

  • Anne Frank Isolation

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    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank details approximately two years of the life a Jewish teenager during World War II. During much of the time period covered by her journal, Anne and her family are in hiding in an attempt to escape Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws and genocidal desires. Anne’s diary ends abruptly in August, 1944 when she and her family are taken into custody by the Germans and transported to concentration camps. Before that Anne writes a detailed journal which depicts are courageous

  • Orphan Train

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    first co-curricular event that I attended was the Orphan Train book discussion. During this hour discussion, the students broke into groups to discuss the book. Many resident assistants were there to help the students discuss the book and give questions to answer regarding the book and its relation to ourselves and the university. The questions that were given helped give readers different perspectives of the book. By going to the book discussion on Orphan Train I realized that many events that happen

  • Charles Loring Brace The Children's Aid Society

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    there were an estimated 30,000 homeless children living on the streets of New York City. At the time, New York City’s population was only 500,000. This increase in homeless children was due to many things. Some children living on the streets were orphans due to their parents dying from diseases, others had parents that just couldn’t take care of them for a multitude of reasons. In 1853, a young minister named Charles Loring Brace became very concerned with this amount of homeless children living on

  • Orphan Train Quotes

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    In The Orphan Train a life of hardship and loneliness bring a troubled seventeen year old Molly looking for belonging and acceptance and a lonely ninety-one year old woman with a secret past to find that they have more in common than just cleaning out an attic. Seventeen year old Molly has her gothic looks and vegan lifestyle that her foster parents are fed up with. After Molly is caught stealing a book from the library, she is sent to serve her community service at Vivian’s huge mansion helping

  • Daravuth Cambodian Orphan

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    journal entry on a the character named Daravuth who lived in an orphanage during the khmer rouge period. The character Daravuth was a cambodian orphan who didn 't know much about his childhood, because of the khmer rouge, and moving from place to place as a child,and having memory loss. Being a cambodian orphan it was hard for people like him, and other orphans to live, but somehow he found ways to make money, and avoid military conscription. The decision Daravuth made was trying to get over his memory

  • Orphan Chapter Summaries

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    In the book I read an orphan boy has no friends and is mistreated by his caregivers. He is an orphan because his parents died protecting him from a wizard of dark arts. He finds out he is a wizard before he goes into sixth grade. He meets a giant that is his first wizard friend. He meets his other two friends on the train to his school. When the boy gets to school he puts on a magic hat that tells him which house he is in. He ends up being in the same house as his parents were and two friends are

  • The Story Of The Orphan Train

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    The Orphan Train was a train that transported orphaned and homeless children from the crowded cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest. Some orphans had a good life after being adopted by good families that love them. Other orphans were adopted by terrible families that didn’t care about them, they just wanted someone for hard work. Orphan Story (Irma Craig) On June 25, 1898 Irma was born to Lyda Steinberg and Walter Craig in Manhattan, NY. When

  • Orphan Train Outline

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    in fiction Writing at the University of Virginia. Along with the #1 New York Times bestselling novel "Orphan Train", Christina has also written "Bird in Hand", Desire Lines , Sweet Water and The Way Life Should Be. In addition to her many accomplishments Mrs. Kline is also a recipient of several Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships and Writer-in-Residence Fellowships. Kline wrote the Orphan Train because she wanted to bring the world to awareness of the hardships that abandoned children underwent