The night was different from other nights, there were more stars than usual, instead of a clear and black sky, the moon was out shaped like a cresaut. Charlie and Lydie were very shocked about the difference in the sky that day, but little did they know the sky that shined the brightest would be the journey of their lifetime. A journey that will change their lives for the better.In every journey there are struggles along the way, but together they will become the bravest people in the world. Charlie and Lydie were orphans living in an orphanage. How they got there nobodys knows. Every night they would dream of having a home, where people would love and care for them. Their lives were miserable at the orphanage with little food and clothing …show more content…
they barely survived. The only thing that kept them going where their dreams at night and their thoughts of being loved. It was hard, but each and every night they wished and dreamed, but with no answer they went to bed hoping in the morning their dreams would come true. One night as Charlie and Lydie were on their way to bed, a burglar barged into the orphanage holding a gun demanding for money. Charlie and Lydie didn’t know what to do so hurried into their room and gathered as many belongings as they could into a small backpack sped toward the other children making sure they got out first. After all the children had hopped out the window and gathered into the street, Charlie and Lydie hopped out, then locked the window leaving no trace of themselves. Once Charlie and Lydie counted all the orphans they began to sprint to the corner of the street because of the gunshots heard nearby.
As soon as they were far away from the orphanage as possible they stopped for a rest looking around them as to where they are. With no adult in sight they found a nearby river about a mile away and decided to rest for the night. After a mile of walking they had finally reached the river. Once they had reached the river, then sat down on the floor exhausted from their walk/run. Finding a resting place wasn't easy due to the fact that their were many rocks with rough edges, but just as they had found a flat area to rest a train magically appeared from the water right in front of their eyes. Once the train had fully came out of the water, train tracks began to appear. The orphans did not know whether to run away or watch what happens next. It was all a surprise to them because throughout their lives they had never believed in magic till now, so it really came as a shock. Just as their shock went away out of nowhere came a conductor wearing navy blue suit and hat , with gold colored buttons, and a long goldish watch attached to his suit yelling’’ All aboard’’. Charlie and Lydie along with the other orphans didn't know what to do but since they didn't have anywhere to go they decided to hop onto the train hoping for an adventure, but instead they got a
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Lori was the first one to leave for New York City after graduation, later, Jeanette followed her and moved into her habitat with her. Jeanette promptly found a job as a reporter, the two sisters were both living their dream life away from their miserable parents. It wasn’t difficult for them since they cultured to be independent and tough. Everything was turning out great for them and decided to tell their younger siblings to move in with them, and they did. Jeanette was finally happy for once, enjoying the freedom she had and not having to be moved every two weeks. She then found a guy whom she married and accustomed her lifestyle. Furthermore, her parents still couldn’t have the funds for a household or to stay in stable occupation, so they decided to move in with Jeanette and her siblings. Jeanette at that moment felt like she was never going to have an ordinary life because her parents were going to shadow her.
It was times throughout the book the reader would be unsure if the children would even make it. For example, “Lori was lurching around the living room, her eyebrows and bangs all singed off…she had blisters the length of her thighs”(178).Both Lori and Jeannette caught fire trying to do what a parent is supposed to do for their child. Jeannette caught fire at the age of three trying to make hotdogs because her mother did not cook for her leaving Jeannette to spend weeks hospitalized. She was burnt so bad she had to get a skin graft, the doctors even said she was lucky to be alive. The children never had a stable home. They were very nomadic and a child should be brought up to have one stable home. No child should remember their childhood constantly moving. This even led to Maureen not knowing where she come from because all she can remember is her moving. The children had to explain to her why she looked so different is because where she was born. They told Maureen “she was blond because she’d been born in a state where so much gold have been mined, and she had blue eyes the color of the
“I told Lori about my escape fund, the seventy-five dollars I’d saved. From now on, I said, it would be our joint fund. We’d take on extra work after school and put everything we earned into a piggy bank. Lori would take it to New York and use it to get established, so that by the time I arrived, everything would be set.”(223) Lori and Jeannette work to earn money so they can leave. They named the piggy bank that they keep their money in Oz because New York City seems like The Emerald City to them. The two sisters went through so many struggles growing up they are determined to leave Welch and begin a new and better life. “ ‘I’ll never get out of here,’ Lori kept saying. ‘I’ll never get out of here.’ ‘You will,’ I said. ‘I swear it.’ I believed she would. Because I knew that if Lori never got out of Welch, neither would I.” (229). Lori and Jeannette have had a tough childhood and they need to escape Welch. They know that if they stay in Welch their life will always be full of challenges. New York is their escape from a life full of hardships and challenges. “I wondered if he was hoping that his favorite girl would come back, or if he was hoping that, unlike him, she would make it out for good.” (241). When Jeannette leaves her dad lost hope. He has always let his kids down and New York City is their escape. New York City represents their freedom. Their freedom from a life full of
In the novel, Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck used George and Lennie's relationship and the theme of hope to point out the loneliness in the novel. The novel starts off and is set in Soledad which means lonely. At the beginning they get a job working on a farm together. Lennie is a little retarded and has great physical strength that isn't too controllable. As they work from ranch to ranch, Lennie relies on George for guidance and help. Rather than wasting their earnings, they try to save it in the hope of buying a place of their own. While working at one ranch they meet a worker named Candy who tries to help them financially. Before their dream can be fulfilled, Lennie kills the wife of the boss's son. As the novel concludes George must kill Lennie for his own benefit. Later Lennie goes into town and abandons his dream by spending his money.
4) . The children were expected to stay clean, and keep their clothes clean for the entire length of the train ride which could last for weeks at a time if they were not selected at one of the earlier stops. They were mistreated, and spoken to harshly while in the company of the chaperones on the orphan trains, and it was clear that they had no compassion for the children. While on the train the children were fed, but not very often. The children would go nearly twenty-four hours without eating, and when they ate they were given, “some crusts of bread and milk and an apple each” (Kline New York City 1929-2, p. 3). The children were not permitted to wander off away from the group whenever the train stopped, and if they did they would be punished. When the train reaches the destinations arranged by the Children’s Aid Society, the children are instructed to look their best, and behave well while being paraded in front of families. The older children knew that there was a chance that they would be selected because they would be capable of being put to work. When Dutchy says to Niamh, “You should make out all right, at least you won’t be breaking your back doing farm work” (Kline,The Milwaukee Train 1929, p. 3), it shows that he is aware of what may be in store for him. If selected you would go with your new family, and if not you would board the train and continue on until you found a new home. The children did not know what would become of them once they were selected. Some children were received well by their new families while others were mistreated, neglected, or beaten, and they often “lost any sense of their cultural identities and backgrounds; siblings were often separated, and
We hit a down hill point so we grabbed drift wood. It would save man power and be faster to sled down. The rest helped Landon out the most because he was the smallest so he didn 't have energy left to use. But this refreshed him so we could keep going. Time was not on are side. The only thing keeping us alive was the fact that if we got out we would be the first ones ever to make it out not dead. It was about the hottest point in the day now and we had to find shade or we would get to dehydrated and die. We drank all the water we had just to fine out that we had a under ground stream below
Describe the relationship between Miss Kinnian and Charlie. Did their relationship change throughout the story? (5 points)
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When they arrived in the middle of the night, their grandmother was there to let them in. All four of the ch...
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Charlie meets two women that are complete opposites. Fay Lilman, an artistic woman that lives next door to Charlie, she is spontaneous and lives day by day. Then there is Alice Kinnian, an intelligent and responsible woman, she is the complete opposite of Fay. Alice was Charlie’s teacher when he was mentally retarded, but then becomes his lover. Charlie Gordon encounters sexual affairs with his neighbor Fay. Charlie feels intrigued by Fay’s spontaneous attitude towards life, her careless and spontaneous ways attract him; Charlie wants to make love to her. Charlie refuses to have sex with Alice Kinnian because the old Charlie forbids. Charlie deals with obstacles that come his way; the right moments to make love with Alice occur, but he rejects it. Charlie cannot decide if he loves her or not. His true feelings for Alice is present, but he cannot not comprehend love. Charlie Gordon’s affair with Fay makes him capable of distinguishing sexual flings from true love.
While most modern day children view “riding the trains” pleasurably, perhaps encouraged by the many children’s books purporting this topic,“riding the trains” at the turn of the 19th century had a starkly different meaning for abandoned, orphaned or, in many cases, severely impoverished children. From 1854 - 1929, over 200,000 of these children from the Northeast were put on trains to the Midwest and Texas, where they were paraded in front of people at stops along the way, in search of families. The fictional book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline recounts a traumatic story of Vivian, an orphan train rider while weaving in and comparing the current day issues of Molly, a girl in foster care. The nonfiction book We Rode the Orphan Trains by Andrea Warren, however, highlights the true
In conclusion, it is safe to say that loneliness is the most conveyed theme in this novel. For example, virtually everyone in this novel exhibits loneliness at some point. I believe that the Great Depression is the root cause for this loneliness and isolation to appear in this novel everywhere. The characters, even admit to feeling lonely and/or secluded because it affects their daily lives tremendously. The fact that Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife admit to complete strangers about their fear of being cast off is just another reason to believe that they are in complete desperation. All this evidence supports my thesis on why I strongly believe that I consider loneliness as the perfect theme to this essay.
After the end of the war it went unspoken that our parents did not survive. I, for a while, did not know what was going to become of Noah and me. The Murphys told us to get ready to go outside and that they had a surprise for us. Over that night’s ice cream Sam and Olivia explained to us that we were going to be formally adopted into their family.
It was September 18 when my dog started to act up strange more than usual.So when I got home from school I noticed my dog was not eating very properly.When I saw him like that, I called my mom and told her that charlie isn’t eating his food and that he was laying down the floor and was not breathing properly.So then when my mom got home she told me worriedly “what happened what is going on,’’so I told her everything that was going on with him.So my mom tells me calmly ‘’don’t worry everything will be ok,and that it is probably just a faze that Charlie is going through.’’So I tell her ‘’alright then if you say so.’’