Orphan Train

Through hardships, the people you least expect can provide friendship, the most cherished gift. In the novel, The Orphan Train, Molly Ayer and Vivian Daly are navigating two separate, yet very similar lives, but when they cross paths they build an improbable, yet remarkable friendship. Molly Ayer, a seventeen-year-old girl, faces a series of undeserved challenges that lead her to closure and friendship. Molly has a decent life with her family until her father passes away in a car crash and her…

Orphan Train Molly can hear her foster parents between the thin walls of the small house in Spruce Harbor, Maine. The year is 2011 and Molly is finding herself in this book, Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline. Molly is a “Goth” she shows herself off with a streak of white in her naturally black hair. Molly also wears black nail polish and black clothes with piercings. In this story Molly discovers herself through objects and people around her. High school is where it all started for Molly,…

the novel, “Orphan Train” by Christina Baker Kline a story is told between a 17-year-old orphan in the modern world and a 91-year-old widow who experienced a long ride in the orphan train back in the early 20th century. Vivian Daly, the 91-year-old widow explains the hardships she went through to the orphan, Molly Ayer. This story compares and shows the drastic change in the lives of orphans then and now. It shows how in todays society orphans don’t go through as much as the orphans from back…

Charles Dickens once said that “no one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” This theme is present in Orphan Train a novel written by Christina Baker Kline. A beaten, broken, freezing little girl and a warm-hearted, lively individual. This is the relationship between a little girl and her teacher. Miss Larsen noticed a problem with a little girl’s life and did everything she could to help. Throughout this novel there is a progressing relationship between a little girl…

enough to grow up in a loving family with both their mother and father, some people were put in bad living situations or sold of as child workers. In Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train, the idea of giving children a new home was a good one, unfortunately the trains and how this situation played out was an awful idea. The trains put the children in terrible situations when they easily could have stayed at the orphanage and waited until a family actually wanted them. Vivian moved around and…

In Christina Baker Kline’s novel The Orphan Train, one specific critical concern of the Sister’s of Mercy is immigration. Out of the four critical concerns, I feel as if immigration stands out the most throughout the novel. The novel was based on the time period where immigration was extremely popular in America. The orphan train transported children around the country and made certain stops where the children would be put into foster homes. The challenges and traumatic experiences the…

it’s inevitable. The book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is set in the 1930s, and this is around the time where the early stages of foster care started developing. Foster care is still around, and the system is as broken as it was when it was first introduced. In Orphan Train, part of the story revolves a young girl, Niamph, who’s parents died, and placed into foster care. She jumped around from house to house. In the first house, she was selected off of the orphan train for labor, and…

The orphan children are not white not white, male, nor property owners and are excluded from that privilege of life. Non- citizenship theory concept applies directly to them before the government got involved, they were ignored, pushed around, and abused. Which…

I was cold. I mean, everything around me was cold. My blanket didn 't seem to do much at the time so there wasn 't really any need for it. The book I held in my hands didn 't satisfy me, but the rain outside did. I watched as the raindrops slid down the window leaving streaks of water behind. The conversations from the children filled my ears. Every day was the same. I didn 't want to be a part of their conversations, and even if I did they would call me a witch or a freak. So I never bothered…

at an early age, specifically from newborn to the developmental years of two years old, are at a very high risk of having many early developmental complications. An orphanage is defined as the housing and care for orphans where they are to be fed and cared for, however despite the orphans receiving their basic needs, many children are still lacking the experience-expectant skills that they desperately need as they continue to grow. This is an extreme concern not only for our youth, but our world…