Flesh And Blood So Cheap By Albert Marin Analysis

Both fire extinguishers and smoke detectors were created before the Triangle Fire in 1911. In the nonfiction story Flesh and Blood So Cheap, author Albert Marrin uses both explicit and implicit to help him justify his theme that unsafe practices led to the Triangle Fire, which showed that workers lives’ were not a priority. Nobody knows how the fire started, but some say that it started with a cutter flicking hot ash or someone tossed a live cigarette into a scrap bin. There were 146 people who died and of those 146 only 16 were men others were mostly women. Many of them tried to escape by jumping out of the window, but both ways would lead to death.

Marrin uses implicit meanings in different ways. One way is in the title. In the title, it says “So Cheap.” This shows that human lives weren’t a priority. Another implicit evidence is in paragraph 7, it states “ Those who reached the ninth-floor stairway door found locked.” This illustrates that Marrin was saying that there was no way to escape, the only way was too jump out and have a body for your family …show more content…
One way is the introduction word. It says “Holocaust,” which means mass slaughter caused by fire. This shows that Marrin is saying the Triangle Fire was a tragedy and ended sadly for many families. A second example of explicit evidence is in paragraph 12 where it states “The aerial ladders failed, too, reaching only to the sixth floor.” This illustrates that Marrin was explaining that the firefighters weren’t prepared and that they couldn’t really do anything to help the people in the building. The third piece of evidence is in paragraph 11, it states “ A burst of water under high pressure would have hurled them backward, into the flames.” This shows that the workers would die if they stood in front of the hose, so the firefighters had to be cautious when spraying the water. As a result, these are all examples of explicit evidence in Flesh and Blood So