Major companies built factories here and drain their waste into the city causing the children who live here to be at risk for many illnesses. The drainage problem is so bad the toxins and sewage washes into the schools. The students here lack certain amenities that “white schools” have. They are in need to books, chalk, and even hand soap and toilet paper. When Kozol travels to North Lawndale and sits in on a kindergarten class, the statistics are sad.
Journal 3 Prompt: This section examines the coping skills the family, especially the children, use to adjust to the both the physical and emotional violence they face nearly every day. They cheat and steal, get food from a dumpster, and put out the fire their father deliberately sets. This character trait comes to its climax when Rex sets their painstakingly decorated christmas tree on fire; but instead of responding with deserved outrage, the children become stoic and clean up his mess. There are no voices of recrimination afterwards, because they have learned to shut down and to close off from what makes their lives chaos. However, beneath her facade, Jeanette begins to realize that her father doesn’t have the strength of character to stay sober.
In the end, Silverstein writes, “But children, remember Sarah Stout and always take the garbage out!” using the poem as a humorous way to tell kids to listen to their parents and to take the garbage out. The Dirtiest Man also by Shel Silverstein is another poem that features examples of exaggeration. “I can’t see my shirt it’s so covered with dirt. My ears have enough to grow flowers” (Silverstein). In this poem, a fictional character named Dirty Dan is the “Dirtiest man
Painting ladybugs, teaching birds to fly, and preparing their rainbow tubes among many other things. Clank and Bobble introduce Tinker Bell to Fairy Mary, the leader of the Tinker fairies. Fairy Mary leads the Tinker workshop where all of the work gets done. Tinker Bell stumbles upon a few items on the beach which later become known as “lost things”. Lost things are items that wash up on to Never Land Island from the mainland.
Perla Villarreal English 2/BAC January 8, 2013 LOTF ESSAY The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Henry David Thoreau once said, “Goodness is the only investment that never fails”. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding tests this theory. When a group of British boys crash into an island and are left alone without any supervision, they are forced to change to a cruel lifestyle that changes Simon’s and Piggy’s innocence. Golding illustrates Piggy’s and Simon’s goodness to show that when people respect and help others it makes a stable society. To begin Simon helps the Liluns pick fruit because they cannot reach it.
They were usually beaten by their masters if they weren’t working hard enough or had a problem with what they were doing. Adults did this to children because kids back then were easy to push around and didn’t stand up for themselves and even if they did, owners of the factories could get rid of the child and hire another since there were so many orphans out for a job. The owners of the factories weren’t as pleasant either; they used violent means to drive children. In England the Factory Act of 1802 stopped this pauper-apprentice work system, but the law did not apply to children who had parents. Children still worked in the mills for twelve hours a day at the mercy of often tyrannical supervisors.
Ursula K. Le Guin described a society where when one child suffers; the rest of the town is joyful. Without this child locked in a basement, starving and suffering, Omelas beauty and delight would wither and be destroyed (10). The adolescent girls or boys or the man or women, who have seen the child does not go home to weep or rage, they walk out of Omelas because they know they cannot do anything to help this child (12). They walk until they cannot walk any further. In this critique presented by author, Jerre Collins, one aspect that I disagree with his paralleling, would be in trying to relate “The Ones Who walk away from Omelas” to the “Christ–story,” to which I was lead to believe was the Bible.
4 Mar. 2014 Chimney Sweeper Chimney Sweeper by William Blake entails about a poem which identifies young boys as socially oppressed chimney sweepers in the dark background of child labor. In the story, the boys are very young and are being sold to people to clean chimneys with no say about the fact that they are just childhood ages being put to work in a dangerous environment which seemed to be government controlled at the time. The ideology behind that is, that the reason the kids were put to work was because they are small and can clean places unreachable to adults and the poem sets a good example of how it was in England in the 18th and 19th century. Marxism to me is basically anti communist thinking, pro religion and also the fact that everything should be shared equally and I believe it shows a good example in the poem when one of the young boys named Tom Dacre had said "And by came an Angel who had a bright key, and opened the coffins and set them all free" (1382).
Blake uses alliteration, visual imagery, simile, and symbolism in his poem, “The Chimney Sweeper” to illustrate his disgust in child labor conditions. In “The Chimney Sweeper,” Blake brought to light issues regarding child laborers working in dangerous work conditions. The poem begins with the narrator being sold by his father at a young age. Typically in the 1780’s, children were sold as early as six or seven years old. The narrator is so young that he cannot say sweep instead he says “‘weep!
Likewise the children were also at risk working in the dark area in the mines. I strongly agree that, by looking at the picture of putters with trolley (annex 1), definitely the terrible working condition might have put children at risk every single day as there was no light or guidance for them to follow. Viewing at the question of who was looking at the surveillance of the children, I can say that Lord Shaftesbury and his commissioners were shadowing the children and before him, the mine owners and his employees were surveing the children. With the introduction of the report, Lord Shaftesbury and his commissioners ensure that the children surveillance was taken care of. The greatest deviance occurred after the introduction of the report as it spotted the age of every child who went to work.