Setting: visualizations, hears, smellstastes or feels
the conflict in the novel
and identify the main characters
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Lyddie is a 13-year-old girl who has the responsibility of taking care of her family; her mother, brother and two sisters. After a bear barges through their cabin high on mountain top, their mother is conviced that the world is coming to an end. She packs up Lyddie's sisters and goes to the mainland to live with her brother and his wife.
Lyddie and her brother Charlie have to live by themselves. They survive the winter and look forward to a new harvest season. That's when they recieve a letter from their mother saying that Charlie must go to Baker's mill to work, and Lyddie must go to Cutler's Tavern to work in the kitchen. Their mother told them they must go to work to pay off their father's debts.
Christmas comes and the headmistress of Cutler's Tavern goes away to Boston to see her sister, and leaves Triphena, the cook, in charge. Triphena gives Lyddie permission to go and stay at Lyddie's farm overnight. The next day, Lyddie packs a lunch and heads out. On the way there, she stops by Baker's mill to visit Charlie. Mrs. Wescott tells her he is at school, so Lyddie keeps going.
When she got to the farmhouse, she noticed everything was just as they left it. Lyddie grabbed a ladder and climbed in through the window. When she got in she noticed a tall dark figure standing by the fire place. She called out her neighbour's name, thinking he was checking up on the house, when the figure appeared in the light. It was a runaway black slave!
The slave was staying at Brother Stevens' farm, but someone was watching their farm so they told him to go stay in Lyddie's cabin.
Lyddie stayed the night at her cabin with the man. In the morning, the man left first, and Lyddie gave him all her money. When Lyddie returned to the tavern, the mistress was there. She yelled at her and dismissed her. Lyddie decided that the only thing to do was go to Lowell and be a factory girl. She walked all day until it started to rain. She went to the next village to seek shelter for the night. The mistress of the local inn told Lyddie she could stay and work for her board because the coach wasn't coming for another week.
A week later, Lyddie got on the coach and headed for Lowell. On the trip she met the coachman whose sister ran a boarding house. When they got to Lowell, he took her to the boarding house, and Mrs. Bedlow (his sister) took her in, not guaranteeing she'd get a job at the factory. She stayed at the boarding house for two weeks while all the girls were on vacation. The water was too high so the mills couldn't run. During that time, Lyddie's roommates, Amelia, Prudence, and Betsy, took her shopping. Lyddie bought a new dress and a pair of boots.
During the two weeks, Mrs. Bedlow brought Lyddie to Mr. Graves to see if he would hire her. He agreed and she was to start in a few days when the factory was running again. Lyddie was doing very well, working at the mills. Her new friend Diana, who was a radical, taught her how to do everything the right way, and she also offered to help her with the regulations. When she was at Diana's, she wrote a letter to her mother and Charlie telling them where she was and how she was doing.
During the next few months, Betsy read to Lyddie from the book Oliver Twist. That was the highlight of Lyddie's day. In July, her roommates packed and left for the summer. Lyddie got up the courage and spent two dollars on her own copy of the book Oliver Twist, so she could learn to read it herself.
One day when Lyddie was walking back from church, she thought she spotted Diana in the crowd. She called out to the girl, but she ignored Lyddie. She wasn't sure if it was Diana or not. But if it was, she would have come over to talk to her.
One day, Lyddie was hit by the loom shuttle at work. Diana helped her during the accident, and wantede Dr Craven instead of Dr Moris to look at the injury. When Dr Craven came, Lyddie recognized him; she had seen him walking with Diana the previous summer.
Lyddie's roommate Amelia couldn't stand factory work anymore, and decided to go home.
A few weeks after Lyddie went back to work, she was assigned to help an Irish girl named Brigid at work. Though Lyddie would rather not have anything to do with Brigid, she obliges to help her. Brigid is terrible at the looms and she can't even do basic tasks.
Betsy had a cough before Amelia left for home, and the cough only got worse. She started coughing up tiny bits of blood and has to go to the hospital, but not before signing the Female Labor Reform's petition.
One day, Lyddie found Luke Stevens, her former neighbour, at the factory. He gave her a parcel from his father, which is a letter written to her from Ezekial Freeman, the escaped slave she had met. Included with the letter was fifty dollars, which she put in the bank.
Lyddie's Uncle Judah also turned up at the factory, and he told her that her mother has been put in an asylum at Brattleboro. Judah tells Lyddie that he sold the farm. He had also brought Lyddie's sister Rachel with him to the factory, and Lyddie decided to look after her. Soon she got Rachel a job as a doffer.
Finally, Charlie came to visit Lyddie at the factory. He gave her a letter from Luke Stevens, who wrote asking for her hand in marriage. Charlie took Rachel back with him to live with Mr. and Mrs. Phinney at Baker's mill.
As the days went on, Lyddie noticed that Diana wasn't doing too well. Lyddie wanted to do something to make Diana happy. She decided she was going to sign the petition. Lyddie went to a meeting and found out that the petition had already been passed in, and she would have to wait until next year to sign. When Lyddie and Diana were walking back to the factory, Diana told Lyddie that she was going to have a baby. Lyddie knew that the father was the doctor who had treated her when she was injured. The doctor was already married, so Diana was going to Boston to find a job.
The next morning news went out that Diana had left. Brigid was doing better at her work. Lyddie started to teach her how to read and to write. They got together after work and Brigid was learning fast.
A letter came in September, and it said that Lyddie's mother had died. She was upset, but forced herself to continue working as hard as ever. One evening, Lyddie was waiting on the stairs for Brigid, and she didn't come. She climbed the stairs and heard Brigid pleading with Mr Marsden. He was holding Brigid by the arms. Lyddie grabbed a bucket of water and threw it at him. Lyddie grabbed Brigid's arm and ran out of there as fast as she could.
The next day, Lyddie was dismissed and went to visit Diana. After staying there for a night, she went home. She went to her little cabin, and in the evening she heard someone at the door. It was Luke Stevens. He asked her to stay at his family's house and she accepted. When they were walking down the hill, she told him she wanted to go to the university in Ohio, which enrolled female students as well as male students.
That doesn't seem like "help", but here goes.
The main characters are Mr and Mrs Harrison, Lyddie Harrison, and Arthur Dent.
The setting is in Scotland in the 1960s.
You take it from there.
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