Paper 2
Industrialization had many impacts on American life. Its effects found their way on every American near and far. This hold, especially on the insight regarding its negative aspect, found in the novel "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper". First, the novel "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper" recounts how industrialization coerces founders of mill towns to use predatory tactics in recruiting laborers. In the novel, mill owner Samuel Slater "was searching far beyond Pawtucket for child workers, recruiting among the urban and rural poor". This means that industrial towns, such as Sam Patch's home of Pawtucket, sourced their ingenuity from forcing the youngest people among the towns to work. Even Sam Patch himself "went to work at Samuel Slater's White Mill at the age of seven or eight", an age at which many children do not even know how to fend for themselves. In this case, …show more content…
In the story of Sam Patch, an announcement came about that "changed the dinner hour from noon to one ‘o clock ". It became known that this change "met with resistance". The resistance resulted from the fact that this time traditionally centered its self around spending time with family. All things considered, the industrial life in America, as illustrated in "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper", took away from family life . Accordingly, Americans, including those in the tale of Sam Patch, developed ways to respond to the travesties caused by industrialization. Notably, male industrial workers like Sam Patch responded by "jumping from the bridge into the river below the falls". Others responded by becoming ‘very riotous and disorderly'. With this in mind, each American, including those in the chronicles of Sam Patch's life, responded to the negative realities of industrialization all in their own different
Industrialization had many impacts on American life. Its effects found their way on every American near and far. This hold, especially on the insight regarding its negative aspect, found in the novel "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper". First, the novel "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper" recounts how industrialization coerces founders of mill towns to use predatory tactics in recruiting laborers. In the novel, mill owner Samuel Slater "was searching far beyond Pawtucket for child workers, recruiting among the urban and rural poor". This means that industrial towns, such as Sam Patch's home of Pawtucket, sourced their ingenuity from forcing the youngest people among the towns to work. Even Sam Patch himself "went to work at Samuel Slater's White Mill at the age of seven or eight", an age at which many children do not even know how to fend for themselves. In this case, …show more content…
In the story of Sam Patch, an announcement came about that "changed the dinner hour from noon to one ‘o clock ". It became known that this change "met with resistance". The resistance resulted from the fact that this time traditionally centered its self around spending time with family. All things considered, the industrial life in America, as illustrated in "Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper", took away from family life . Accordingly, Americans, including those in the tale of Sam Patch, developed ways to respond to the travesties caused by industrialization. Notably, male industrial workers like Sam Patch responded by "jumping from the bridge into the river below the falls". Others responded by becoming ‘very riotous and disorderly'. With this in mind, each American, including those in the chronicles of Sam Patch's life, responded to the negative realities of industrialization all in their own different