Bread and Roses, Too by: Katherine Paterson (Allison Craft)
Youtube Video
In this video, a lady is talking about and describing the book and the story behind it.
Jake from a bad home
Jake was another main character in this book. He came from a bad home, unlike Rosa. He was forced to work in the mills by his father, so he did not get the chance to go to school. When he got his pay from working, his dad would take and go by alcohol for himself. Jake was afraid of his father, so he would live in garbage heaps in the freezing air, just to get away. He did not have much to wear or eat, and he smelled awful. He was beat by his father if he did not come home with the money.
Textile mills in 1912
This a textile mill from 1912 in Lawrence Ma. As you can see women are working in it, but children and men also worked in the mills. They did not get paid much for all the hours they worked. Very few children went to school because they had to work.
The main character in the book is named Rosa
The girl in the picture above is the main character, Rosa. She goes to school but is afraid for her sister and mom's lives when they go to protest. Her sister, Anna had to go work in the mills when her dad died, otherwise they would starve. If they did not starve to death first, they would freeze. There were 5-7 people that lived and had to fed in your house.
The chance to go to school
Rosa was able to go to school but she did not have very many supplies. When her mom and sister went to the protests she said that she would not go to school if they went to riot. Although her mother still made her go, Rosa did not approve of the actions that her mother took. There were not very many kids that got to go to school, Rosa was lucky. Even less kids were coming when the riots and protests started.
Jake from a bad home
Jake was another main character in this book. He came from a bad home, unlike Rosa. He was forced to work in the mills by his father, so he did not get the chance to go to school. When he got his pay from working, his dad would take and go by alcohol for himself. Jake was afraid of his father, so he would live in garbage heaps in the freezing air, just to get away. He did not have much to wear or eat, and he smelled awful. He was beat by his father if he did not come home with the money.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
