Lyddie Quotes

“Lennie was in a panic. His face was contorted. She screamed then, and Lennie's other hand closed over her mouth and nose. "Please don't," he begged. "Oh! Please don't do that. George'll be mad." … "I don't want you to yell. You gonna get me in trouble jus' like George says you will. Now don't you do that." And she

Lyddie, A Hard Decision The novel “Lyddie” was written in 1991 by Katherine Paterson. Lyddie is a loving sister and daughter until her mother sends her to work at a tavern. She leaves the tavern to work at a mill in Lowell so she can make more money. She is then faced with a hard decision and that is when everything goes wrong.

Another symbol is Curley’s wife’s hair. Lennie can’t stop whenever he starts something, just like the girl from Weed. He was stroking the girl’s dress, just like Curley’s hair. We know that whatever he ends up touching and whatever he likes ends up getting destroyed, just like how he accidentally killed Curley’s wife. This monologue has the motif of loneliness. The reason why Curley’s wife tried so hard to talk to Lennie is because of her loneliness. Curley prevented her from talking to other people, and the loneliness made her even talk to someone she thinks is nuts, just like Lennie. In order to get attention, Curley’s wife lets Lennie touch her hair, which leads to her downfall. Lennie also killed Curley’s wife because he had no self-control. Lennie, once he starts something, can’t stop. When he was following George around in the clearing, he couldn’t stop walking after George stopped in front of him. Lennie has no self-control over himself and therefore couldn’t stop himself from stroking her hair, just like for the mice and the

Decisions are something we face constantly every day, whether its choosing what to say, which way to go, or even what your gonna eat. We all make decisions some can be hard and so simple.

Some people believe Lyddie should not sign the entreaty because she should support her family. First, her family is very poor and are in need of money, and Lyddie is the only one they can depend on. As stated by Katherine Patterson, “She must earn all the money to pay what they owed, so she could gather her family back on the farm while she still had family left to gather”. This quote suggests that Lyddie’s family has no

In a time, full of child labor and cruel treatment, an opportunity to live better appears, and one thirteen-year-old should seize it. Lyddie, by Katherine Paterson, is about a thirteen-year-old farm girl named Lyddie who is in 1800s Vermont. She and her brother are sold to work to pay her farm’s debts. Lyddie goes to Massachusetts to work at the mills and looms, where she is treated unfairly. One day, she hears about a petition circulating for better working conditions and is torn on signing it.

The book Lyddie, By Katherine Paterson, is a book about a girl named Lyddie, Lyddie is a 12-year-old girl living in the year 1843 in Vermont in a farm that their father built before he left with her mother two sisters and one brother. It turns out that their mother went crazy because their dad left and she was left to take care of the kids. When their mother and two sisters were moved to a camp Lyddie and her brother were left to take care of the farm, at the beginning of the year their mother sold the farm and sent Lyddie and her brother to different jobs.

Children moved away from their family to work in factories and earn money to help better their family’s home life. The realistic fiction novel, Lyddie, written by Katherine Paterson, begins with Lyddie, the main character, having to move away from her family and everything that is familiar to her to work at a tavern making only fifty cents a week. She has to do this because her mother has to pay off debts for their family farm after their father left them to take care of themselves. Leaving her family was not easy, but she knew that she

George said, “Lennie-if you jus happen to get into trouble like you always done before.” Lennie always gets in trouble causing him and George to have to run and lose their jobs. Their farm dream gets farther and farther from a possibility everywhere they go, with Lennie getting in trouble and Crooks telling them it won’t happen and that they will fail.

“Curley’s wife came around the end of the last stall. She came very quietly, so that Lennie didn’t see her. She wore her bright cotton dress and the mules with the red ostrich feathers. Her face was made up and the little sausage curls were all in place. She was quite near to him before Lennie looked up and saw her.”

“Curley’s eyes slipped on past and lighted on Lennie; and Lennie was still smiling with delight at the memory

You get in trouble.” This quote is important because it explains how Lennie is difficult to keep around and how it takes a lot of patience to keep taking care of him. George is unhappy that Lennie

As he’s saying “why did you got to be killed I didn’t mean to, I didn’t mean to!” as he threw the wooden box to the floor, someone seemed have to passed by and heard the reckoning Lennie is doing. It’s Curley’s wife and she walks in to Lennie making a fuss. “ Lennie what are you doing?” Curley’s wife asked Lennie.”

Based on this quote we can see some characterization of Lennie. We see that he tries to act and take after George and possibly looks up to him. From their interactions and the ways in which Lennie depends and looks after George to know how to carry himslef tells us, the audience something very important. We can tell that lennie feels a deep and close connection with George that results in him trying not to mess up around George and trying  to impress him.

make a decision and at the end of the day, the nature of the decision