Orphan Train

they can get better. “The Orphan Train is a serious play, which mixes it up from last years play “How to Succeed in High School Without Really Trying” The art and woods classes have been a major part in helping One-act build sets this year. Costumes take some of the rehearsal time. They like to rehearse in our costumes to make sure that we are comfortable in them and work with our props so that we look professional. All of our costumes are set in 1914 when the orphan train came to the…

Growing up as an orphan was difficult and finding homes was too. Children who found homes were often wanted for their work or were often abused by their adoptive parents. Without the the Orphan trains, the many children would not have parents or a home. The Orphan Trains ran from 1854 to 1929 which was initiated by a social welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace. When the movement began, it was estimated that approximately 30,000 abandoned children were living on the streets of New York. Most…

Niamh was placed on a train, all of the kids on this train were taken to Minnesota in the search of a new home, the train was named “The Orphan Train”. For most of the children on the “Orphan Train”, this was their last chance to find a family that could live with. On the train, Niamh met a lot of new friends, all of the children on the train related to each other well because they had been living in the same conditions all of their lives. Niamh met a teenage boy, who had been living on the…

I would say the great effect of orphan trains were a milestone that making a positive change of society because the Children’s Aid Society Program provided a possible way to change the future of majority homeless or neglected children in urban cities. From the film, I am so happy and thankful to learn that some children lived with a satisfied life with the adopted family. With the positive outcomes, the program actually opened a new page American foster care history. However, it also has it…

adoption parents give her are the leading identities that she receives. This is not because she chose to have this new identity but because she has to be in most of the situations that she is placed in. The situations that she is put into after the train arrives in Minnesota and she is adopted for the first time. The realizations that she comes to with her own identity are discussed all throughout the book. With her first adoption family she is named Dorothy and finally realizes that she will…

Molly, one of the main characters in Orphan Train, has to serve community service hours for a crime that she committed. In order for her to get those hours done, her boyfriend gets his mom to help her out. She assigned her to an old lady’s house, who wants to clean out her attic and needs some help. “Molly has decided to think of this job as indentured servitude” (Kline 52). She just wants to go in and get her hours done as soon as possible. As you continue to read the novel, you figure out that…

The common book, Orphan Train written by Christina Baker Kline, not only brought a realistic feature to the novel, but also made the story a touching and perspective changing one. Kline’s insisted on basing the book on real life occurrences and stories from people who experienced the orphan train first hand. By interviewing those who lived through the events first hand, Kline successfully made the book as real and true as possible. Vivian’s past allowed her to have a deep connection with Molly,…

Christina Baker Kline the author of the novel "Orphan Train" was born in Cambridge, England, and raised there as well as in the Maine and American South. She has graduated Cambridge, Yale, and the University of Virginia. She has taught nonfiction and fiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale, Drew University, and NYU, and served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University for four years. Christina Baker Kline is the author of five novels,…

of the social construct of race. Even more, if you are a woman versus a man you will earn less and receive less job opportunities promotions because today’s society is gendered which is socially constructed. Written by Christina Baker Kline, The Orphan Train follows a timeline of Vivian, an Irish immigrant who was soon orphaned after coming to the United States in 1929 and of the “present” day life of Molly who is a foster care kid who encounters Vivian…

the United States in foster homes by Orphan Trains. The program accountable for such as task was a non-profit organization that was determined to help the displaced children due to an increase of immigrants and the Civil War. The overall goal was to redistribute work forces and find homes for displaced children. The Children’s Aid society which is a non-profit organization founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace was the main contributor to the Orphan Trains program in the United States…