I read a ton this week. (I couldn't post yesterday because blogger wasn't letting me in. :( sorry)
I read for two hours but all that happened and all they described was the fire. Rose explains (in super detail) how she got out of the fire and how she could have jumped out of the 9th story window. She lost her sister Maureen. That is where I ended. Sorry I can't go into detail like I usually do, but I have to finish my English project. This was actually the most boring 2 hours ever...
Total time read: 2 hours
Running Total: 7 and a half hours
-Aych-
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Ashes of Roses pp. 193-234
I left off with the four girls going to a nickolodean. Which is a movie theater. I think this is where they get the nickolodean channel from. The girls enjoyed the movie and Rose and Maureen went along home. When they got to the apartment, Gussie wasn't home yet. She works the Shabbes and then goes to the union to help out. She is really big on the Union stuff. She tries to persuade people to join the union so they can change working conditions for the ladies at the triangle shirtwaist factory. Right now they have no heat/air conditioning, their lunch is horrid etc. Gussie is trying to get as many people to join the union as she can because she a firm beliver in Labor rights.
Total time read: 1 hour
Mass time: 5 and a half hours.
Total time read: 1 hour
Mass time: 5 and a half hours.
Ashes of Roses pp. 155-193
I left off with Rose starting her job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. There were many many many girls that worked there. She had taken an elvator for the first time. She didn't like it. gussie brought her to the table area where she would be working. She explained to Rose that this would be a little different than what she had lerned at the apartment. But Rose caugh on quickly and before she knew it, she was flying by like everyone else. It gets to be lunch time and the two girls eat the lunch they brought. Rose meets two other girls named Rose. they go by Belini and Klein, their last names. They become friends and Belini asks Rose if she wants to go to the nickolodean this weekend.
They spent alot of time explaining the Factory building.
Total time read: 1 hour and 30 mins
Mass time: 4 and a half hours.
They spent alot of time explaining the Factory building.
Total time read: 1 hour and 30 mins
Mass time: 4 and a half hours.
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Ashes of Roses pp. 118-154
The two girls, Maureen and Rose, are off on their own. With the money they got from the tickets, they were able to find a little apartment and rent out a room. The man they are renting from has a daughter that works at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Her name is Gussela. She's pretty and Rose looks up to her very much.
Rose had taken some stems home for the girls to all work on. She and Maureen finished them and Rose went to take them back. She gets there and the man tells her to come back later at night when the shop closes. So she came back at around eight o'clock. He tells her to take off her coat and then he thrusts himself on her and starts kissing her. Frightend, she runs out without her pay and her coat.
She gets back to the apartment and get a Gussela finds out what happened. She and Rose go back the next day to get the pay, her jacket, and to tell him off. They walk out with her coat, and three whole dollars. They have succeeded.
Gussela continues to talk to Rose about the factory. She brings home a sewing machine and teaches Rose how to use it. Then tells Rose she'll try and get her a job at the factory.
This is where I end.
Total reading time: 1 Hour
-Aych-
Rose had taken some stems home for the girls to all work on. She and Maureen finished them and Rose went to take them back. She gets there and the man tells her to come back later at night when the shop closes. So she came back at around eight o'clock. He tells her to take off her coat and then he thrusts himself on her and starts kissing her. Frightend, she runs out without her pay and her coat.
She gets back to the apartment and get a Gussela finds out what happened. She and Rose go back the next day to get the pay, her jacket, and to tell him off. They walk out with her coat, and three whole dollars. They have succeeded.
Gussela continues to talk to Rose about the factory. She brings home a sewing machine and teaches Rose how to use it. Then tells Rose she'll try and get her a job at the factory.
This is where I end.
Total reading time: 1 Hour
-Aych-
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Ashes of Roses pp. 96-117
To continue-
After Elsa leaves for work the next morning, Rose leaves to get the supplies to begin her work at home. When she gets there, all the girls give her the feeling that they don't really like her that much. Then one of the girls explained that when Rose takes flowers home to make it cuts there job down. making them not get paid as much. So then Rose felt bad but really didn't want to stay in her current situation so she took them home anyway. She walked in the door with the supplies and started immediatley teaching her mother and sister what to do. Not long after they got started, Elsa walks in the door with her two girls and a boyfriend. The one lets out a scream because her boyfriend just saw the lil 'greenies' working a 'sweatshop' in her kitchen and livingroom. Then Elsa and Rose's uncle are talking in their bedroom and decide to send the family back to Ireland.
They get to the boat and Rose demands her ticket back to stay in America and pay her own way. Then Maureen wants to stay too. So Rose's mom and her little sister bridget go back to Ireland by her father.
This is where I ended.
Total reading time: 30 mins.
-Aych-
After Elsa leaves for work the next morning, Rose leaves to get the supplies to begin her work at home. When she gets there, all the girls give her the feeling that they don't really like her that much. Then one of the girls explained that when Rose takes flowers home to make it cuts there job down. making them not get paid as much. So then Rose felt bad but really didn't want to stay in her current situation so she took them home anyway. She walked in the door with the supplies and started immediatley teaching her mother and sister what to do. Not long after they got started, Elsa walks in the door with her two girls and a boyfriend. The one lets out a scream because her boyfriend just saw the lil 'greenies' working a 'sweatshop' in her kitchen and livingroom. Then Elsa and Rose's uncle are talking in their bedroom and decide to send the family back to Ireland.
They get to the boat and Rose demands her ticket back to stay in America and pay her own way. Then Maureen wants to stay too. So Rose's mom and her little sister bridget go back to Ireland by her father.
This is where I ended.
Total reading time: 30 mins.
-Aych-
Ashes of Roses pp. 65-95
This weekend was also a four day weekend. I didn't read much, but I haven't been feeling good lately. So I'm proud to have atleast put in a half hour.
I started out reading this time with Rose talking about getting a job to help the family get a flat of their own. They live with her uncle (her dad's brother) and they do not get along. (I don't remember if I posted that already). She wanders out in the city of New York walking in and out of stores looking for a job. She figures out that they call the immigrants 'greenies'. She finally walks into a store and asks the lady if she has any work. The lady responds with a no but proceeds to give her a peice of paper with a name and address on it. She says to tell this man that Rose knows her. She thanks the lady and walks forever to find the given address. She finally arrives. Walking in, she hears noises coming from all different directions and the building was run down and dark. The paper said apt. 4. There was no apartment 4. She keeps walking. At the end of the hall there was a door with a number 4. She knocks. The man opens the door and invites her in. This is a paper flower making 'factory'. The man and Rose talked and she started working that second.
It was getting late and she had to get back home to her uncle's. When she walked in the door everyone was freeking out because she was gone so long. She talked to her mom about the job and Elsa (her uncle's wife), found out and flipped because she was working in the rundown part of town and she can't have that going around. So ROse and her mom talk about it and Rose ends up bringing work home for the three of them to do.
Total reading time. 30 mins.
-Aych-
I started out reading this time with Rose talking about getting a job to help the family get a flat of their own. They live with her uncle (her dad's brother) and they do not get along. (I don't remember if I posted that already). She wanders out in the city of New York walking in and out of stores looking for a job. She figures out that they call the immigrants 'greenies'. She finally walks into a store and asks the lady if she has any work. The lady responds with a no but proceeds to give her a peice of paper with a name and address on it. She says to tell this man that Rose knows her. She thanks the lady and walks forever to find the given address. She finally arrives. Walking in, she hears noises coming from all different directions and the building was run down and dark. The paper said apt. 4. There was no apartment 4. She keeps walking. At the end of the hall there was a door with a number 4. She knocks. The man opens the door and invites her in. This is a paper flower making 'factory'. The man and Rose talked and she started working that second.
It was getting late and she had to get back home to her uncle's. When she walked in the door everyone was freeking out because she was gone so long. She talked to her mom about the job and Elsa (her uncle's wife), found out and flipped because she was working in the rundown part of town and she can't have that going around. So ROse and her mom talk about it and Rose ends up bringing work home for the three of them to do.
Total reading time. 30 mins.
-Aych-
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)