Living in 1850s
In the “Last Runaway “written by Tracy chevalier, the different challenges that they had to face living in 1850s compare to living in the year 2015.
First of all let me talk about the mailing system, cause we all heard the character in the book said that they didn’t had a way to get the mail safely from one destination to another one. Also that most of the time the mail will not even reach to his final destination and you should expect to have a 2-month delay between them.
Because they just didn’t have FedEx, UPS, USPS so obviously we made a big jump compare to the year 1850 where they had to have a stage coach to carry the news around. When we take everything for granted like airmail, overnight shipping. 2 day shipping and express shipping you can see the contrast between the old day technologies with our era there really no comparison.
Secondly let talk about the transportations system back in 1850, and all I can think about is this one word “horrible”. I could not have made it in that year like truly; I’m so not into having to take a 1-month trip on the sea to go to a different state. Is like it just sounds outrageous to me knowing that we …show more content…
Thirdly let talk about being sick, cause this might sound like something not that important because we all know, that nowadays we have hospitals full of cutting edges technologies, we have vaccines for everything from yellow fever, malaria and other deadly diseases. So I really feel sorry for Grace that she had to die from yellow fever during her trip on the sea. Cause from my recollection they did have some kind person that would deal with sick people but I guess he didn’t really know where to start from to even try to give a treatment to the
In the “Last Runaway “written by Tracy chevalier, the different challenges that they had to face living in 1850s compare to living in the year 2015.
First of all let me talk about the mailing system, cause we all heard the character in the book said that they didn’t had a way to get the mail safely from one destination to another one. Also that most of the time the mail will not even reach to his final destination and you should expect to have a 2-month delay between them.
Because they just didn’t have FedEx, UPS, USPS so obviously we made a big jump compare to the year 1850 where they had to have a stage coach to carry the news around. When we take everything for granted like airmail, overnight shipping. 2 day shipping and express shipping you can see the contrast between the old day technologies with our era there really no comparison.
Secondly let talk about the transportations system back in 1850, and all I can think about is this one word “horrible”. I could not have made it in that year like truly; I’m so not into having to take a 1-month trip on the sea to go to a different state. Is like it just sounds outrageous to me knowing that we …show more content…
Thirdly let talk about being sick, cause this might sound like something not that important because we all know, that nowadays we have hospitals full of cutting edges technologies, we have vaccines for everything from yellow fever, malaria and other deadly diseases. So I really feel sorry for Grace that she had to die from yellow fever during her trip on the sea. Cause from my recollection they did have some kind person that would deal with sick people but I guess he didn’t really know where to start from to even try to give a treatment to the