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“She’ll never come back, Lyddie thought sadly as she watched the buggy disappear around the corner . . . She’ll never be strong enough again to work in a mill thirteen, fourteen hours a day. When I’m ready to go, she thought, maybe I could sign that cussed petition. Not for me. I don’t need it, but for Betsy and the others. It ain’t right for this place to suck the strength of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the wind.” (113)

What does the last sentence mean?  Why does Lyddie think Betsy has been “cast off like dry husks to the wind”?

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The last sentence means that the factory and its terrible working conditions are making the girls sick and weak then they end up leaving and most likely never come back. The factory lets the girls that get sick and weak go then get new girls to replace them. Lyddie thinks that Betsy has been "cast off like dry husks to the wind" because Betsy is really sick and has to leave the factory.

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The last sentence means that the girls are getting all of their energy taken out and they are sick and weak.Once the work is done they will be "cast off like dry husks in the wind" because she cant work which means no money.

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They make all the young workers so tired and weak and then when the workers get sick or cant work the mill kicks them out weak and tired. Lyddie thinks Betsy has been cast off because she has work for so long and now when she gets hurt she just gets kicked out weak and sick and cant work to get money.

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The last sentence means that Betsy was treated badly in the working conditions and she worked hard for nothing because she had to go home sick, coughing out blood and she wasn't happy. Lyddie thinks Betsy has been "cast off like dry husks to the wind" because she worked really hard and was sick and had to go home unhappy. Betsy did not like the working conditions and Lyddie also thinks that Besty shouldn't have left.

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i think the last sentence means the corporation takes the girls to work and then when they get weak they let them go and they get new girls. ( using them ) lyddie thinks betsy has been cast off like a dry husk because she was used and once she was weak they didnt care about her. they just let Betsy go without any concern to her.

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She thinks Betsy has been casted off like a husk because the factory uses the girls to make cloth when they are strong and not sick and when they are weak and sick from working so hard in the dust and dirt, then they leave.

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I think what the last sentence means is that people their age don't usually work 13 or more hours a day in factories (especially nowadays). And that's all they do, just work and work and work. Lyddie doesn't even read anymore because she doesn't have the time nor the energy to. she says that Betsy was cast off like dry Husks in the wind because the husks on corn are useless once you have the corn so the factory basically used all of her energy and it made her sick so she was useless when she's sick and can't provide any good to the factory.

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Lyddie believes Betsy was cast off "like a dry husk in the wind", because the factory used up all her strength, and then she got sick and she had to use her money for the doctor, so when Betsy left she had had no money or strength.

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In my opinion the last sentence means that her life is kinda just boring and just being doing the same thing everyday

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I think the last sentence means that when she got sick she will get weak and the corporation won't make as much money when betsy is sick and weak so that's whys she is leaving and signing the petition for better working conditions and less working hours so people like betsy don't get sick.

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i think she is talking about acting like she doesnt need them anymore

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I think the last sentence means that everything started falling apart when she got sick.

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I think that the last sentence means that the place that they are suffering through the pain and tiring-ness that they are going through at that point. And could also maybe mean that its sucking all the power and then letting go it go into the wind like it was nothing and taking all the strength away. I think that Lyddie might think that Betsy has been “cast off like dry husks to the wind” because she has taken all the strength and let it all out and that she might be very exhausted mentally and/or physically from all the work and wants to end it.

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The last sentence that Lyddie says means that the more girls that can't work the hours the more they will sign the petition and will be blacklisted. Lyddie says this because she has less doubt that the mill will get anymore girls that could do the hours and work.

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I think it means that the mill wears them out and they are no longer strong or healthy and the mill does not care and just hires more people.

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It means that it is not right to throw them away when they run out of purpose and leave them to old to work.

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I think in the last sentence, Lyddie means that its not fair that the corporation makes them work these long hours everyday and then they eventually wear out and they have to leave. Some might even get sick like Betsy and lose all their money to hospital bills.

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I think that the last sentence means that it is a not a safe environment for someone to work in. Like if someone gets sick or something and then they just get sent home.

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The last sentence in the quote means that Lyddie doesn't think that it's fair that the hours at the factories are so long that they wear out the workers there eventually causing them to not be able to live normal lives anymore.

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being "cast off like dry husks in the wind" means that the owners and overseers of mills do not care about what happens to the girls as long as they're making money from it, and they can just find replacements if necessary, just as they did to betsy.

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She might think that because the girls were all working very hard for a long period of time and lots of them could not keep up the pace. Betsy had to leave the mill because she had been coughing up blood because of the dust in the air at the mill.

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She thinks they are "dry husks in the wind" because they drain them from all of there energy and they leave them with almost no life or meaning.

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The last sentence means that the factory work is so tiring and exhausting that it uses girls, exhausts them and fires them (or they leave) when they cant work full speed anymore.

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The paragraph is saying that the mill makes the girls work hard and that makes them weaker and then they get kicked out cuz they can't do the work or because they're too sick to

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it is saying that they use the young peoples strenglth then send them away injured and damaged from the mills

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Lyddie is referencing how they simply throw away the young girls after they've drained the strength, health, and looks of them. It's like destroying or stealing their youth.