Missing Chapters in Lyddie and review

Missing Chapters in Lyddie and review

Archetypal Story: Lyddie's Hero's Journey

Archetypal Characters: Character types/patterns showing up in stories/myths for thousands of years.

Chapters 2-8...the Ordinary World and Her Call to Adventure

• Lyddie sells her family's calf to Neighbor

• Lyddie and Charlie get "sold" by their mother to work in a tavern (Lyddie) and a mill (Charlie)

• Life in Cutler's Tavern is not so good; Lyddie is an outsider and made to feel less than. Her boss is horrible, but she has a friend, Triphenna, whom she can trust.

• Lyddie takes a quick break (without permission) when Mrs. Cutler leaves for a few days. She encounters...

Crossing the First Threshold

• Lyddie heads to Lowell, MA to work in the textile (garment, clothing) factories.

• She meets several girls, Amelia, Betsy, and others whom she is staying in a dormitory with.

• The pay is good, but as Lyddie discovers, she is quick to find out how hard the work is. She gains a mentor and someone to look up to in Diana though.

Trials and Conflicts

• Lyddie becomes an expert "factory girl"

• Talks of petitions, being blacklisted, making money are going around: Should she sign the petition?

• Betsy (helped Lyddie learn to read, read Oliver to her every night)

• Lyddie is discovering what a creep Mr. Marsden is...

Chapter 15, Rachel

• Luke Stevens visits Lyddie

• Lyddie takes on a protégé, Brigid

• Lyddie is devastated by the news that her mother is being put in an mental hospital and sells the farm.

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the runaway slave who visits Lyddie in the cabin?

• Ezra

• Jonas

• Steven

• Ezekial

Multiple Choice

Lyddie's uncle is named

• Jerry

• Judas

• Jack

• Deuteronomy

Poll

What would you do if you were Lyddie if you found out your mother is being committed to an insane asylum (mental health facility) and your home is being sold after you've been saving up to save it?

• I'd give up and continue to work at the factory

• I'd fight the contract her father made to give the farm to Judas.

• I'd set fire to the cabin and the farm so no one could have it.

• I'd feel free to start a new life, get an education, and see where that takes me.