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Orphan Train is a novel about the relationship between seventeen year old Molly Ayer and ninety one year old Vivian Daly who form a bond, and change in multiple ways. Molly is a foster child in Maine who is about to age out of the system. She was put into the system after her father died in a car accident and her mother was strung up on drugs. Molly lives with unpleasant Dina and shy Ralph. One day Molly steals a book, the judge sentenced her to fifty hours of community service. Molly's boyfriend

Joe Spencer Spencer 1 Sharon Miller English 99 16 March 2016 Lost and Found 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

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Orphan Train The book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is an impactful story that makes readers remember to be grateful and is filled with realness and remarkable coincidental moments. Although this book is fiction, the book speaks sincerity and realistic stories of the orphans and their experiences. Vivian states, “My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection” (Baker Kline 260). Christina definitely did her research and it shines through the writing and any reader

Bible, which refers to caring for dependent children as a duty under law. In 1853, Charles Loring Brace, a minister, founded the Children's Aid Society in New York City. Brace saw many immigrant children sleeping in the streets. Brace started the Orphan Train Movement which is where over 150,000 orphaned children in New York City were sent by train to farms across the country, primarily in the Midwest. Nevertheless, as the emphasis was on giving abandoned and abused children a family life, Brace's

Orphan trains were the system used to describe the means of transportation of foster children from Eastern Cities to the United States. The hardships endured by children throughout their lives on the train, and in foster care as a whole, were devastating and life impacting. This is realized through the analysis of Christina Baker Kline’s writings in her 2013 publicized novel, “Orphan Train”. Throughout the novel, Kline chooses to tell the story of Molly Ayer, a teenage girl who entered foster care

Orphan Trains Orphan trains is a documentary about children in New York, being sent on trains to other parts of the country, in order to find families and be taken care of. There are stories from, adults that actually rode on these trains when they were children. The Orphan Trains was started by a man named Charles Loring Brace in 1854. Brace, had traveled to New York in the early 1850’s, and was horrified at the conditions of all the children he saw on the street. Brace felt that it was a duty

Aid Society plays an integral part in Kline’s novel Orphan Train. It is the organization that runs the titular “Orphan Trains” from the novel upon which Vivian’s journey to the Midwest takes place. Without the Children’s Aid Society, Vivian would have been stuck in New York all alone after her family died. The man behind the Children’s Aid Society is one Charles Loring Brace. Before Mr. Brace, the only safe havens for homeless children were orphan asylums and almshouses. Mr. Brace and a group of social

“The Orphan Train,” by Christina Baker Kline, was an amazing read, and tells the stories of the two main characters, Molly and Vivian. The narration hops between these two often, moving from Molly’s story in the 2011 to 91 year old Vivian’s story back in 1926. The novel’s prologue begins in Vivian’s point of view, wherein Vivian establishes her loneliness by talking about all the people she has lost in her life. However she says that these people, her lover, her sister Maisie, and many others linger

Joe Spencer Sharon Miller English 99 23 February 2016 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