The Potato Famine

The Donnelly’s were a family who emigrated from Ireland because of the Potato Famine. They immigrated to London, Canada. In Canada, they were not the most favourite family in their township. In their township which was called the Biddulph Township, there was a lot of violence which was shown by sheep killings, arson, fights and by murders. This shows that the township was not very peaceful and there was a lot of problems and violence. This was common for them. In the text it says that the Donnelly's had horses and pigs, I can infer with this info that they were farmers. This can help us understand that they were most likely hard workers, also that their houses were most likely made out of wood which is easy to burn. Jim said he was given a …show more content…
This allows us to understand that there most likely was a lot of violence involved. This shows that there was most likely a lot of conflicts because there were the two different types of religions in this area. The text states, James Carroll had a soft felt hat on. This could mean that he's rich. In the text, Johnny asked his mother “I asked her if she would tell anyone if I told her.” Her being the mom, and he being Johnny. I think he is very secretive because he didn’t even want to tell his father, but only his mother, or maybe his father isn’t a good person. Another sentence in the text is, “He had not been speaking to anyone in the other room”. The old man did not talk a lot. He could be more of an independent person. The grammar is this passage was not too great suggesting that this person was not very educated. From prior knowledge, I know that usually during that time period people usually stopped school after a certain stage. People used to leave school early due to the fact that they needed to help out their families with their farms since most of the people's economics depended on farming. So, this is the reason why they do not have great