Initially, Industrialization allowed for a surplus of jobs, but also created long sixteen hour laborious work days. First, we gain further discernment about a mother in the poem My Boy, she acknowledged that “[Before] dawn (her) labor (drove her) forth Tis night when (she was) free.” (Document 2). In observance to lines five and six in this insightful poem, we start to understand that a mother has to work before the sun rises pending till night in order to help …show more content…
In the excerpt by Mary Paul, to her father, we can infer that (her homelife was very harsh , thus being the reason for her attendance at the textile factory.) (Document 1) Obviously, Mary has no way, besides letter, to communicate with her family. A lack of family communication and interaction can lead to a state of loneliness and depression. As humans, we tend to thread emotions into others, usually our family, which can end badly when untethered without preparation. Next, from the point of view from a mother in the poem My Boy, she spoke these words, “A stranger am I to my child; And he one to me.” (Document 2) These two lines from this insightful poem allows us, the reader, to fully comprehend what life was life for a mother during Industrialization. She felt as if she knew not of her child, and her child knew not of her. This indicates to the reader that all-in-all, life was too busy for meaningful family