https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi Respond to the quote below en-us 2021-03-08 22:29:54 UTC 2021-03-10 14:25:45 UTC hello@padlet.com aroyal1 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1284768478
“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”? ]]> 2021-03-08 22:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1284768478 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292882692 I think what it means is once they use up the energy of the girls they kind of just let them go once they run out of being able to keep up with the machines.When old girls leave new ones are ready to replace them, it seems like the corporation forgets about the girls who used to be there before they left.]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292882692 egsanchez6 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292883381 I think it means that they use up every little bit of strength the girls have so that the factory can make money. They overwork past exastuion. Once they get hurt and are useless to the factory they get fired since they can't keep up anymore.  Then they hire someone else to replace them right away.]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292883381 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292883479 It means that the factory uses the girls until they can no longer be useful and then they just let go of them by giving them away or them leaving. Lyddie thinks that Betsy has been cast off like that because she got sick from the air in the factory but the factory did not care and did not pay for any of her medical bills even though it was their fault. Also  Betsy had to leave because of the illness, and the factory did not even care because they can easily replace her and she is no longer useful like the husk of the corn.]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292883479 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292883895 I think the last sentence means that since Betsy was sick she had to get a doctor and she spent all her money on the doctor. After that, the factory would not hire her again because she is not strong enough so they " cast her of in]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292883895 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292884359 Lyddie thinks that Betsy has been cast off like dry husk to the wind, this means that Betsy has now become unwanted in the factory setting because she is sick and not work as diligently. ]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292884359 sgsanchez5 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292884460 Lyddie thinks that Betsy had been cast off becuase she knows that Betsy will never be stong enough to work in the factory again. The factory drained her of all her energy and youth/strength. Because of this, Betsy has kinda been thrown away, no longer useful. The husk is like the useless part of corn or something and it's kinda what Betsy is. A dry useless husk, dry because she doesn't have and enegry and cannot keep up with the speed up.  ]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292884460 ecbeach https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292884698 The girls are being overworked and underpaid. They have 13 hour shifts in bad conditions which leads to health conditions and weakness so they can't work any longer and just fire them as if they were never there.]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292884698 nnmartinez2 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292885120 I think it means that they use all there energy and strength working hard in the factory to make money and they are very tired and once they get hurt they have to leave the factory for their safety because they cant do it anymore.]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292885120 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292885707 This means that the factory will use all your energy and cause medical problems to the very overworked girls and have to leave because of their conditions. ]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292885707 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292886297 it means that Betsy is sick and not as strong then usual, also Betsy had a dream to go to college but the bad conditions that is in the factory did not let that happen.]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292886297 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292886494 It means that they are working the girls really hard then just leaving them be when they might need help with something.]]> 2021-03-10 13:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292886494 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292889062 In the sentence, Lyddie is saying that the factories are just taking in younger people, leaving them worn out, injured, etc, and then letting go of them when they don't need them or letting them resign themselves. Lyddie thinks this is true for Betsy because they took her in as a younger girl, and have completely overworked her, and now that she is too affected by the work, she is basically forced to leave. They have taken Betsy, worked her dry to the bone, and now she's been forced to leave.]]> 2021-03-10 13:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292889062 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292889078 2021-03-10 13:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292889078 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292889540 I think it means that they work the girls very hard until they are tired of working at the factory, so once the girls get injured and worn out they decide to fire them and blacklist them because they aren't strong enough to make good money for the corporation.]]> 2021-03-10 13:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292889540 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292891121 i think it mean that they are useless and the only option for them is just to leave.]]> 2021-03-10 13:56:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292891121 cwhagan https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292891221 It means that Lyddie thinks that the factory is making them use all there energy then when they are not able to work anymore or when they can work it's not for as long because they have so many health problems and they mentally just don't want to do it.]]> 2021-03-10 13:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292891221 jtjenkins1 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292891426 I think it means that the girls are working to long and that they have to much work that is why Lyddie wants to sign the petition for the other girls.]]> 2021-03-10 13:56:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292891426 lamcintyre1 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292891548 2021-03-10 13:56:52 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292891548 recobb1 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292892049 I think it means that they are overworked and don't need to work this many hours]]> 2021-03-10 13:56:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292892049 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292892551 It means that when Betsy left the mill , Lyddie thinks that she was cast off like a dry husk in the wind, she means by this that she didn't have a choice to leave she had to go for her own safety. She kind of just through her self out of lowell]]> 2021-03-10 13:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292892551 jcbarnes2 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292893437 it means the factory is forcing girls to work in terrible conditions for 13 hours a day and when they get sick or injured they just send them away]]> 2021-03-10 13:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292893437 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292893521 i think it means that they used all the girls strength and made them tired and overworked them]]> 2021-03-10 13:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292893521 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292896695 This quote is saying that the girls are being forced to work in the bad working conditions and when the girls work production would start slowing down they would be fired.]]> 2021-03-10 13:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292896695 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292905236 I think it means that Besty is drained out and tired of working.]]> 2021-03-10 13:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1292905236 https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1293054983 It's referring to how they work the girls until they drop, and them replace them just to do the same.]]> 2021-03-10 14:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aroyal1/7j0nlwceq2egxbxi/wish/1293054983