Rodzina by Karen Cushman5/9/2023 ![]() At each town where the train stops, a few more orphans find homes until Rodzina is the only one left, alone and unwanted.Ĭarefully researched, RODZINA tells us of a time when orphans were not to be trusted and were often treated little better than slaves or beasts of burden. Bitter, sharp and angry, Rodzina isolates herself from everyone else on the train as it clatters west. ![]() Rodzina and many of the other orphans consider this change in circumstances to be a sentence to a life of slavery, and needless to say, Rodzina would rather live in an orphanage or even on the streets than face an existence in a strange place where she has to work in the fields from sun up to sun down day after day. At the time, the powers-that-be believed that working on farms as laborers would be good for these city orphans. They are going west to find new homes and establish new lives. Rodzina and many other orphaned children of all ages are being shipped out of Chicago on a train. Rodzina has seen the face of tragedy several times over, and now it seems as if hope has turned its back on this homely immigrant from Poland. ![]()
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