North And South By Elizabeth Cleghorn - 1128 Words

Welcome, welcome! Come one, come all to Aidan’s Amazing Writing Emporium! The reason for this piece is to compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction writings from a selected time period. The time period I chose was the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution was when societies went from making everything by hand to using machines and factories. It was a huge leap in human achievement and helped businesses make a lot more money than they used to, but also forced lower class people to work long hours in factories to produce goods. For the fiction writings, I chose the book North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn and the short story â€Å"Life in the Industrial Revolution by someone with the online username of PukaMaseillaise. They†¦show more content†¦Thirdly is the setting of each writing. Life in the Industrial Revolution takes place in a poor town and dangerous factories, while North and South focuses on the life of a lower class girl who lives in a quiet to wn at first and then moves to the city but does not work in a factory. From LIR is this text quote: We were forced to move to the city and work in a factory, where we tend machines all day long until the day is over... In LIR, the narrator lives in a hut with many others and attends a factory six days a week with very long hours to work and earn money. Next is the fiction to nonfiction section. For my nonfiction books I chose The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation by Michael Leapman, The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention by William Rosen, and The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century s On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage. These books also compare and contrast in some ways. Firstly, the use of steam engines. LIR and Most Powerful Idea both include steam engines and how they worked in factories. (You’re going to be hearing the words â€Å"steam engine† a lot in this essay.) Second, are the â€Å"specifics† of the steam engine use. In LIR, the steam engine is used to run machines in factories where people tend to them to make money,