Analysis Of Lyddie By Katherine Patterson

Would you rather live in a working, breathing prison where you are guaranteed a horrendous health and probably death, or would you live in a healthy and reliable workplace where you know you can make a good living? In the book Lyddie by Katherine Patterson, this rhetorical question comes to life. This book is about how Lyddie, the main character, must work hard to support her family back home in Vermont. Her mother’s mental health is deteriorating as her father left several years ago, in the search of wealth and riches in the West. As she continues, in the beginning, to live with her brother and herself in solidarity until she and her brother are called upon to pay off the tremendous debt of her father. As she finds a job at the Tavern, she
If I were you I would take the lower hours, asas would have more hours to spend with my family and time for my personal life and this is why Lyddie should not sign the petition due to her long and unfair hours. Foremost, some evidence that Lyddie should not sign the petition due to the problem with unfair hours includes when the managers are offered premiums if they make more cloth, and cloth, and they are making the workers and the machines work at an exceeded an inhuman rate. The evidence below is a piece of the dialog of Lyddie describing the hours of the horrendous factory. The evidence shows, “She had little time to wonder or daydream. She had so well on her own on her two, then three, the machine that Mr. Marsden gave her a fourth loom to t Now he hardly noticed people anymore...went back to bears...it’s like a racehorse. The harder, and longer we work the bigger prize they get...girls hardly dared take time off even when they were feverish...if you can't do work...there’s many a girl who can and will. We've No place for a sickly girl in this room.... Lyddie went to work in the icy darkness and returned again at night. She never saw the sun. The brief noon break did not help.” In short, this evidence should show that the workers and women got no time at all that other than to work, and she compares herself as a racehorse, as they did the
Briefly, the reasons why Lyddie should sign the essay is because; first, she is getting poor working conditions with poor pay, like showing where the working conditions just keep on getting worse than they already are, the girls are getting sicker and are losing their healthy lives. Furthermore, it shows while they made a point about the hours and pay, it simply put so it doesn't benefit them and it shows they are being stretched to their maximum capacity In addition, another reason Lyddie should sign the petition is since it shows the workers and women get no time at all that other than to work and the comparison between the workers and as a racehorse, as they did the work for little meanwhile the “owner” took all the glory and prize. Besides, although you might think Lyddie is missing out on signing the petition, you are sincerely wronged as Lyddie has many benefits to signing the petition like shorter hours, more pay, safer work conditions, and in the end help benefit her family even