Analysis: Lyddie By Katherine Patterson

In the novel Lyddie by Katherine Patterson, Lyddie is a young girl during the Industrial revolution who works as a factory girl in Lowell Massachusetts working conditions aren’t great in factories, so a petition to better these conditions is being passed around. Should Lyddie sign the petition? Lyddie should sign the petition because nothing will improve if these factory girls do not stand up for themselves. One reason Lyddie should sign the petition is to have more time to eat breakfast. For example, in chapter 10 states “Nearly half the meal time was spent simply going up and down the staircase across mill yard and bridge”. This evidence shows that Lyddie should consider signing the petition because there isn’t enough time to eat breakfast and if there isn’t enough time eat breakfast they won’t have the energy to work for 13 hours. This is one of the reasons that lyddie should sign the petition. Another reason that Lyddie should sign the petition is for better working conditions. For example in chapter 10 states that “Now that she have thought of it, she could hardly breathe, the air was so laden with moisture and debris”. This evidence shows that Lyddie should consider signing the petition if
For example, in the novel it states “she was a work-fast, numble fingered, diligent in the nearly unbearable heat of the weaving room”. This shows that Lyddie should not sign the petition because she is already good at the job so what’s the point of making it easier if she is good at it and getting blacklisted. This isn’t a good enough reason not to sign the petition because if she does not sign the petition she will get sick and use all the money she earned on a doctor. This can say that Lyddie has not much of a choice because there is a sickness with the