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maganda123

Will Lyddie return to the farm? If so, when?

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Posted by maganda123 on Thursday August 28, 2008 at 3:38 AM and tagged with farm, lyddie, plot, return.

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  1. lit24
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    Lyddie returns twice to her home  in  her family farm.

    After her mother has abandoned Lyddie  and her brother Charles, Lyddie's mother writes to her that both of them must work to pay off their father's debts. Lyddie and her brother leave their family home. Lyddie becomes a servant in  Cutler's Tavern which is ten miles from her home.

    The first time she returns home is when Mrs.Cutler goes off to Boston and Triphena the cook gives a few days off to Lyddie. Lyddie returns to her home which is now used by her  neighbour  to shelter a fugitive slave Ezekial Abernathy. Soon, Lyddie returns to the Tavern only to be fired from her job by Mrs.Cutler for going home without her permission.

     Lyddie returns to her cabin in Vermont for the second time  after she has struggled and saved enough money by working at the textile power loom factory in Lowell.  The house and the farm have now been purchased by the Stevenses her neighours. Luke Stevens the eldest son proposes marriage, but Lyddie gently turns down his offer  remarking, "I'm off to Ohio. There is a college (Oberlin) there that will take a woman just like a man."  She is confident that she will return to Vermont and accept Luke's proposal  only after she has found herself.

    Thus, Lyddie leaves her home and returns and leaves again for the second time. This time though on a spiritual quest in search of knowledge to be her own person. 

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    Posted by lit24 on Thursday August 28, 2008 at 7:03 AM