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Orphan Train is a novel about Molly and Vivian, who spend time together and share their life experiences. Molly is a 17-year-old girl, a Penobscot Indian who is aging out of the foster care system, and her improbable friendship with a 91-year-old woman named Vivian, an Irish immigrant child that rode an orphan train. Vivian is born Niamh, who is renamed Dorothy and renamed name again to Vivian as she is left by herself in New York after her family dies in a fire. She is taken in by Children's Aid Society and sent west on an Orphan Train to find a new home. Molly is put into the foster care system after her dad died in a car accident and her mother turned

Once Ruth moved in with her parents everything was beautiful again. The mom and father agreed to tell on themselves and get each other killed because it was so bad for them in hiding,luckily the executioner never came. On their trip to New York they had to make many stops which caused anxiety because they wanted to arrive at their destination. At the end they did. “it was a tearful and bittersweet reunion”

One night, people were over at their house began to start talking about the Underground Railroad and if only there was a map to help people get out there. Clara got the idea to make this map with her quilting. After Clara, learns and masters sewing, she stitches a quilt with a map pattern which will help guide her and her young friend, Jack to freedom towards the north. Clara memorizing her freedom quilt decides she will go on with her journey and gives the quilt map to aunt Rachel as requested by her. Later both, Jack and her sneak away from the plantation risking their lives to find her mother first, before they would cross the Ohio River to Canada. They eventually find Clara’s mom and move to free land in the north towards Canada. A few years, later she was acknowledged and she was

Orphan Train is a novel about Molly and Vivian who spend time together and share their life experiences. Molly is a 17 year-old girl, a Penobscot Indian who is aging out of the foster care system, and her improbable friendship with a 91-year-old woman named Vivian, an Irish immigrant child that rode an orphan train. Vivian Explains that the Nielsen family depend on her. Vivian begins to set on making make the store as lucrative as possible. Molly learns that she must depend on herself. Molly has learned not to faith in people besides herself.

“I’d rather be shot than sit around and watch my kids go hungry” says one of the men trying to get through the police line to illegally hop on a train headed west in Christopher Paul Curtis’s (1999) novel, Bud, Not Buddy (p.83). The novel is based during the Depression Era and describes a young boy who has no family and is “out on the lam” trying to figure out what to do with his life. In one scene, Bud, along with many others, tries to break a police line to get a free ride on a train to the west. The crowd is screaming and pleading to get the police to let them get on the train, desperate for the opportunities they believe can be found in the West.

After being moved within their town, relocation to another country is the final step taken in separating Jews from society. Wiesel’s father shares the news of relocation after a meeting with local leaders: “‘The news is terrible...Transports.’ The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. Departures were to take place street by street, starting the next day” (13). This measure marks the end of Sighet Jews’ lives in their town and the beginning of a totally different life. They are pulled from everything they know, their town, their schools, their stores, and their friends. Lives in Sighet are brought to a stop while a new life, under a

The American Amtrak train was founded and operated in early the 1970s (1971) during the cold war, Vietnam war under Nixon Administrations .(Richard Nixon 1913-1994) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon .

On the way home to Maycomb, Jean Louise boards a train and comments that “she was glad she had decided to go by train. Trains had changed since her childhood, and the novelty of the experience amused her” (4). In this case, not only are trains a symbol of changing times, they are also metaphorically symbolic of the set paths that people will take through their life. In addition, trains only run on already laid railroads, further implying that people have the tendency to follow and maintain their beliefs and ideologies during their lives.

The Underground Railroad was the name of the network that was used by enslaved African Americans. It consisted of very intricate routes that were used so that those moving along its path could lose pursuers traveling under the guise of darkness and staying in safe houses during the day. The goal of the railroad was to get the slaves from the South to the Free states and to Canada where slavery was prohibited. A slave knew that once they crossed the border into any one of the Free states that they were safe from the cruelty of being a slave as long as they were not captured by slave catchers. A reason why the railroad was so successful was because they had allies who were both black and white. One such example is the Quakers, as well as the most astounding former slaves such as Harriet Tubman who was born a slave in Maryland. When she was a teen, an incident caused her to have seizures, severe headaches and narcoleptic episodes for the rest of her life. Sojourner Truth, another pioneer of the Underground Railroad, was born a slave in New York back when it was still a slave state in 1797. She is a famous abolitionist known for her speech, “Ar’n’t I a Woman?” Still another famous Underground Railroad freedom fighter was Anna Murray Douglas who was born free; she is the first wife of Fredrick Douglass, and she helped him escape to freedom by giving him money she had saved. What all these women have in common is that they each made a tremendous contribution to the Underground

On October 6th, 2016 at around 3 p.m. I rode the number 1 train from Van Courtlandt Park in the Bronx to South Ferry in lower Manhattan. The ride lasted about an hour. Like stated earlier, this should’ve been just another ride I had to take on the subway, but to my surprise it was a different experience. Without the disturbance of music and my phone, my senses were focused on everything in my surroundings and with that, the things I’ve observed on my ride were fascinating. This essay will focus on the observations I’ve made about the different riders

“A national benefit.” said John C. Calhoun about the evil act known as, slavery (“The History of the United States). However the world was not completely full of ignorance even though it is shown here. “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally,” said by Abraham Lincoln. (“Quotes About Slavery”) No one had experienced anything other than a world with slavery, and were not for having a change like this occur and change many people’s lives one by one. This, lead to many people, including many Southerners taking the side of John C. Calhoun. Because, lets face it. No one actually likes change. But in the early 1800s it soon became a problem that abolitionists, people against slavery,

The image of the train appears several times; including when Big Boy heads home for the final time. “Big Boy slowed when he came to the railroad. He wondered if he ought to go through the streets or down the track. He decided on the tracks. He could dodge a train better than a mob.” In this section, the train serves as the carrier of Big Boy’s adulthood. By staying on the tracks he believes he is still innocent; still hidden from the mob that is after Big Boy because he murdered—certainly a crime not associated with youthful innocence. Because Big Boy is black, he never really has true innocence. He has to be mindful of his surroundings at all times, knowing that whites are always out to get him. But whatever

The factors affecting the work of the designers involved in The Millennium Train Project are

“I have sent via a two o’clock four large and two small hams,” which indicated that four adults and two children were being sent by train from Harrisburg to Philadelphia.” (Wikipedia, Underground Railroad)

“How easy it was to disappear. A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago. Many of these trains brought single young women who had never seen a city but now hoped to make one of the biggest and toughest their