https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6 Respond to the quote below en-us 2021-03-10 12:11:38 UTC 2025-10-12 12:53:48 UTC hello@padlet.com aroyal1 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1292442060
“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”? ]]> 2021-03-10 12:12:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1292442060 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294517989 Betsy is going to the Hospital because of her cough. With the last sentence Lyddie means that the girls are being "used", not well paid and when they are not good anymore, thrown out.]]> 2021-03-10 18:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294517989 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294518298 Cast off means to die down or go away so Lyddie is saying that Betsy will leave the factory and never come back, Betsy had a bad cough because of all of the heavy and dusty air in the factory, it's a bad disease that will probably last for a while.]]> 2021-03-10 18:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294518298 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294519319 It means that they made them work when they were young and made them sick and tired then got rid of them]]> 2021-03-10 18:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294519319 mmmruk https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294519471 She said that because Betsy had to leave the hospital because she could not pay for the service anymore. Lyddie is saying that Betsy just gave up and got sent out of the hospital because of the money issues.]]> 2021-03-10 18:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294519471 jthannum https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294519537 Lyddie is watching as Betsy leaves, because of her very problematic  cough . Betsy told Lyddie that she would be back eventually after she recovers.  Lyddie thinks that Betsy will not be well enough to work long hours if she ever happened to come back. The last sentence means that the factory uses healthy young women to work, until they are sick or very ill. Which then they have to leave which basically means  "cast off like dry husks to the wind". Betsy went through this situation, because she had been working there for a long time and eventually she had been working long enough in the poor working conditions her lungs become very weak, and a cough developed. ]]> 2021-03-10 18:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294519537 egsmith41 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294520255 The last sentence means that the factory is draining the girls of strength and then sending them off because they have someone better. Lyddie thinks that they are sending Betsy off like dry husks because Betsy had gotten very sick from the working conditions and ended up in the hospital. Afterwads the hospial bills left Betsy with no money so she was forced to go home. ]]> 2021-03-10 18:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294520255 crmastandrea https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294520408 The last sentance means the mill is making them work very hard with long hours and low wages and then firing them. Lyddie thinks Betsy has been cast off because she is not strong enough to work the looms anymore so she wont be useful to the corporation. ]]> 2021-03-10 18:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294520408 mawestbrook https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294521428 2021-03-10 18:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294521428 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294523716 Lyddie is talking about how working at the mill is tiring. she is saying she might sign the petition so maybe the next people to work at the mill will have fewer hours to work.  ]]> 2021-03-10 18:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294523716 jjclark4 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524063 because of Betsy's really bad cough like prudence she thinks that she won't come back .]]> 2021-03-10 18:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524063 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524086 She means that Betsy may not be in the condition to work again, The work in the mill has affected her and she doesn't know if she will ever be better enough work in the mill again.]]> 2021-03-10 18:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524086 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524692 It means to have them work until they can't anymore, to make them work so the boss can make money while they are almost broke.]]> 2021-03-10 18:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524692 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524718 to let her friends get casted off meaning let them go and not have to work.     Because the machines were going too fast it sucked tons of energy out of them and lyddie did not like that happening to them]]> 2021-03-10 18:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524718 seabbott https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524840 2021-03-10 18:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294524840 crgonzalez3 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294525083 When Lyddie says this she is thinking that Betsy will not come back to work at the mill. Betsy has a bad cough due to the working condition in the mill and may not be fit to work anymore so the corporation will just "throw her out" and send her home because she is useless.]]> 2021-03-10 18:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294525083 kpschlosser https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294525406 2021-03-10 18:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294525406 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294528948 cast off like dry husks in the wind because Betsy has been working very hard for money to go to college and she got hurt from the machines. Because of that she had to go to the hospital and it took all her money. Betsy now has to start over to earn her money back. ]]> 2021-03-10 18:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294528948 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294530175 the last sentence means that all of the girls are working really hard but they get paid minimum wage]]> 2021-03-10 18:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294530175 iwbosely https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294531049 The last sentence means that people who work at the mill work really hard and then it uses up all there strength and then they leave. Lyddie thinks that betsy wont come back because Betsy was in bad conditions and she thinks that Betsy wont have the strength anymore.]]> 2021-03-10 18:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294531049 abbrinkmann1 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294531112 she was saying that its like not fair that they are useing the girls and the throwing them away like corn husks and then all of there progress is gone from all of there work they have done . :}]]> 2021-03-10 18:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294531112 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294536915 2021-03-10 18:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294536915 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294609302 2021-03-10 18:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/4dfqcfpm5rpmx1q6/wish/1294609302