Book Quote:“I want you to come down and look at this Wolfe, standing there among the lowest of his kind…remember the heavy years he has groped through as a boy and man…There is no hope that it will ever end” –Davis, 2605
Online Quote:
“This was Rebecca Harding's vision of industrial Appalachia, and it was an incendiary one—reminding the country that Appalachia was not a foreign land, but a vital American crossroads of immigrant groups, blacks, and courageous women, all of whom were playing a significant role in our nation's industrial saga.”
-Jeff Biggers, The Atlantic
Summary:
Davis tells us these hard labors environment conditions and how no one will attempt to fix them and their situations. There are men who claim that they cannot afford to help, actually keeping their superior status instead. There are those who claim to be not so wealthy as they appear to be and others who openly state their opinions on the less fortunate as they do not see their benefit in helping those less fortunate. Deborah, a woman who can never be seen as beautiful in Wolfe’s eyes as he has an eye for it, try’s to gain his love by stealing the money needed to start a new life, away from such conditions. Attempting to return the money, Wolfe is caught while deciding what he will do, with or without the money. He is caught and sentenced the max of time “but it was for ‘xample’s sake”. Cell neighbor, Deborah, sees the symptoms of his soon to be death, “the gray shadow”. He would have slept with the mud and ash as he did when alive but is taken to a peaceful hill.
Opinion:
Davis’s Life in the Iron-Mills main focus is these immigrated hard labor workers and their chances of rising. They live in such terrible conditions and cannot see themselves rising from them. It is even likely it will pass on to the next generation as they were born a part of. There is no help in rising from the mud and ashes. These women like Deborah worked to death and lose their face in society as they become deformed from the long hours of labor. These meaningless creatures are given a choice to continue hard labor work in factories, their death sentences, or escape it by taking from the rich.
Davis tells us these hard labors environment conditions and how no one will attempt to fix them and their situations. There are men who claim that they cannot afford to help, actually keeping their superior status instead. There are those who claim to be not so wealthy as they appear to be and others who openly state their opinions on the less fortunate as they do not see their benefit in helping those less fortunate. Deborah, a woman who can never be seen as beautiful in Wolfe’s eyes as he has an eye for it, try’s to gain his love by stealing the money needed to start a new life, away from such conditions. Attempting to return the money, Wolfe is caught while deciding what he will do, with or without the money. He is caught and sentenced the max of time “but it was for ‘xample’s sake”. Cell neighbor, Deborah, sees the symptoms of his soon to be death, “the gray shadow”. He would have slept with the mud and ash as he did when alive but is taken to a peaceful hill.
Opinion:
Davis’s Life in the Iron-Mills main focus is these immigrated hard labor workers and their chances of rising. They live in such terrible conditions and cannot see themselves rising from them. It is even likely it will pass on to the next generation as they were born a part of. There is no help in rising from the mud and ashes. These women like Deborah worked to death and lose their face in society as they become deformed from the long hours of labor. These meaningless creatures are given a choice to continue hard labor work in factories, their death sentences, or escape it by taking from the rich.
20 points. "These meaningless creatures are given a choice to continue hard labor work in factories, their death sentences, or escape it by taking from the rich." Then as now?
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