Examples Of Bad Working Conditions In Lyddie

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Taking risks is often apart of everyday life, the hard part about it is deciding to take them or not. The fictional novel Lyddie by Katherine paterson. It is all about a girl (named Lyddie) who has to work in a factory to pay off her mother’s debt but the working conditions are not that good, so she is thinking about signing a petition to try to get better working conditions, if she does she has the risk of getting blacklisted. Should she take the risk. Although some people think Lyddie should sign the petition because of all the bad working conditions, Lyddie should not sign the petition because she needs the job and the money, Where will she go. If Lyddie signs the petition she will still have the debt to pay off and she won’t have a good

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