Macie

Hi, This is Macie's Monologue. Hope you like it! I could hear loud footsteps coming up to the large, brown door. The doorknob slowly turned. My tummy sank, I felt like a million butterflies were bumping on the sides on my stomach. I knew nothing good was going to happen, it wasn’t going to end well. Hello, my name is Elisabeth Mary-Jane Rose. I am 10 years old and was born in 1824. When I was 5 my mother and father decided to sell my brother and I to a mill, since then I haven’t seen any of my family as my brother died a year after working, I don’t even remember my mother and father’s name. It’s not my mothers fault she had to sell me, the only reason she did was because the family didn’t have enough money nor space in the house. I didn’t want to argue with my dear mother so I left my small cottage. I waved my mother goodbye as my brother and I left for the mill, I was exited. I thought it would be fun and now I am here, working in a big smelly mill in Rhode Island for 17 long painful hours a day. I earn 90 shillings a week, if I’m lucky. I remember when I used to think being a child labourer would be fun, I didn’t know the kid of pain the children went through, I never knew what it would feel like to not want to wake up each morning. For breakfast today we had the usual, water porridge with flavoured onions. I hated it, but I knew I had to eat it, as it was pretty much all we ever got. Due to the devouring machines I had lost my thumb, every morning I would wake up and look at my fingers that were covered in blood, I would then feel uneasy and sick. I was also sick, as the air in the appalling mill was full of lint. I’m lucky, I get the day off on Sundays but unfortunately have to go to Sunday school a I must get some form of education. I hope to grow up big and strong. I wish I could escape, breath fresh air and meet my darling mother and father. I truly miss them and hope to see them soon and then maybe I could ask them all the questions that are going around in my head. Why me? Why do I deserve to be here? What did I do?