Snow And Archetype

Snow begins to fall in 17th century England as children are sold and bought along with the oncoming Christmas preparations. While other young ones their age are sitting around a tree with their loving parents, these children will be going somewhere much less desirable, with much more frigid people. These children, some as young as 4, had the unfortunate luck of being bought from their orphanages to be enslaved and made into chimney sweeps. The chimney sweeps are made to sleep in cold cellars with nothing to use as bedding or blanket except for the sacks they carry to fill with soot. They’re made to shimmy up chimney shafts stark naked, covering themselves in the grime and sometimes even injuring themselves or contracting infections as they clean. In a cruel gesture of humour, the Master Sweep in charge of the children for the day would sometimes light fires beneath them in the fireplace to get them to work faster. Many children died unnecessarily doing this job that we simply use actual tools for now. It was a miserable life that no one would save them from. …show more content…
They kept each other warm enough to stay alive through the night and supported each other through the hard days. Even when other children died around them, they weren’t broken. They also had the belief in God and His plan for them, believing that after the others had died they were set free in a way. “Were all of them lock’d up in coffins of black. And by came an Angel who had a bright key, And he open’d the coffins and thet them all free;” They hoped and believed that they were happier and better off wherever they went after death. “Then down in a green plain, leaping, laughing, they run, And wash in the river, and shine in the