Kit Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Kit Kittredge seemed to live a good life with both of her parents, her brother Charlie, and her best friend Ruthie. Kit lives in the time during the Great Depression. The story talks about how her father, like many other men, lost their jobs. In our text, it states that some men had to travel to other cities hoping to find work, just like what Mrs. Kittredge’s friend Mrs. Howard 's’ husband had to do to keep their family fed. In the story, Mrs. Kittredge comes up with the idea of taking in boarders so they can make some money on the side as her husband looks for a new job. She worked from home, just as many other women did. In our book, it states that many women began to can foods and sew their own clothes. As well as start working from home. Women began to go out and look for jobs, even if they were married and their husbands were out of work. However, the parents were not the only ones affected by the depression. The kids faced hard times too. In our book, it tells about kids having to drop out of school to save their family money. Many kids had to go out and look for work in …show more content…
The writer, Valerie Tripp, had written this for the American Girl company. This organization would not want a poor American Girl. So for Kit’s family to be just making it by with the things they still have seems unrealistic. Many people lost everything they had. Therefore, for this one girl and her family to be okay though the depression, for the most part, does not match the book’s context. Other than that minor detail, this book is very accurate. From the men, women, and children, this short book went into detail making sure every fact was historically correct. This book really helped me put faces to people that did struggle during this time. To hear about what a young girl and her family had to go through allows me to see how common families did everything they could to stay afloat during the Great